Speech #660274062

If there is such a menace. we should stand together for the enactment of law that will safeguard our own country. I do not admire the attitude of those who are hostile to this bill and eventually will not vote for it. but who seek to limit its operations. Logically. it would be just as easy for Congressto repeal an exclusion act covering a period of 10 years as it would be to reenact the measure. if necessary. every 12 months. The debate so far reveals very clearly a greater devotion to constituencies than to the general welfare of the country. which of itself justifies a change in our national policy. at least until we have digested and assimilated not the average immigrant but those who sit in professional chairs and even occupy seats in this House. The man is blind who does not see that the Nation is suffering from acute indigestion. a national dyspepsia. induced by overloading the stomach of the body politic with a mass of indigestible stuff. We should exercise the greatest care in the future over this matter of immigration. The time has come to stop the silly prattling that this country of ours is an asylum for eveiy man on earth. regardless of the effect upon the integrity of our institutions and the happiness and welfare of the people.