Chairman. I can see how one who- is more concerned about the present and future welfare of people in foreign countries than the good of those already here can look at this subject from a standpoint different from ours. But only a misconception can diiide us and the country into two groups. one consisting of immigrants. and their friends. and the other of natives seeming to have a different interest. Let the newly arrived immigrants. their kinsmen who. have been here longer. and their most sympathetic friends among us understand that unless America is preserved. natives. older immigrants. and newcomers will be involved in a common calamity. If we make another Europe or Asia here. the work of our fathers will have been destroyed. and immigrants and their children will have left the old home and journeyed far. only to find here the same lack of opportunities and the same miseries which they left in the unhappy land across the sea. If America is lost. the world will grow visibly darker. even to the people of foreign lands. and all that is worth living for will have- been- lost by us. whether we came recently or our fathers came long ago. Let. me define what I mean by the loss of America.
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