Speech #660255572

I thank the -chairnan of -the Immigration Comnaittee. I assume that his figuresare the latest obtainable. In many -parts of our country. if you will look around you. reading business signs and names and listening to the language -of the street. you would -think -you were in some foreign land instead of America. When Columbus discovered America it was inhabited iby .Indians. European immigration changed :the whole civilization of America. and the Americans of today are totally. different from the original Americanthe Indian. English immigration to Australia has changed the civilization of that coun.try. :and it is -today English in -thought. European immigration :to India is rapidly changing the national spirit and customs of that Empire. Japanese immigration has changed laws and life 4n China and Korea. and history teaches that where peoples of different nationalities. religions. customs. and -civilization emi.grate in :large numbers to any land there is always a bitter conflict between the different races. if the immigrants become greatly superior in numbers in a republican -form .of government. inevitably the political ideas. customs. manner of living. and idiosyn.crasies of the immigrants ibecome dominant. -control legislation. land -ultimately shape the -destiny of the nation. According to testimony adduced before the Immigration Committee of the House. we have today 11.000.000 aliens in the United States. only 2.000.000 of whom have filed their declaration of intention to become citizens. In my opinion it is suicidal to the best interest of America to continue to permit further immigration until the millions of aliens now within our borders are Americanized by being required to learn to read. write. and speak our language. to familiarize themselves with American ideas and our American form of government. and to become American citizens. In most of our industrial centers we have Little Bohemia. Little Italy.