Speech #660312212

President. it is because I have despaired e of any favorable action from the committee that I offered this - amendment. I know why we can not get it. it is politics. The various races which have come here long ago formed themselves into organizations. and while there can be no question about the Americanism of many of them. doubtless of a - majority of them. the fact remains that these organizations are designed to promote policies that are unAmerican. or only indirectly American. and when their representatives appear before h the Committee on Immigration. sustained by the organized poI tentialities of the voting power of men and women. and protest I against legislation of this sort. political considerations suggest a that their views be accepted. Not until this question becomes. as it must become. a great economic and moral issue. not until since both the imported and the domestic cotton lter Into con-. the Americanism of the Nation arouses itself and realizes the sumption. Hence the actual burden of the tax expressed in danger. not until such a movement becomes sufficiently powerful money is $147.694.200. to command the attention and respect of the congressional poll- Mr. President. is it possible that the Senate. presumably com1 tician. may we hope for a check upon that tide of immigration posed of intelligent statesmanship. will yield to the clamor or which is even now an overwhelming flood. Within the next the hysteria of a few producers. some of them engaged in 25 years. if the present immigration law remains upon the stat- raising cotton. some in raising cherries. some in growing peaute books and is applied as it is now applied. the chances are nuts. some in demanding a prohibitive duty on honey? Is it. that the English language will be an exception upon the possible that we shall. either deliberately or otherwise. inflict. streets and in the workshops of every great manufacturing city such a tremendous imposition upon the consumers of the in the United States. and when that time comes the political United States? power of the Nation will be wielded not by the nativeborn citi- With all due regard to my distinguished friend from Arizona. zen nor yet by the naturalized citizen who believes in America I do not honestly believe that he made any .calculation of the first. who even now is too indifferent to his political duties burden he would impose upon the American public through his to vote unless anxious candidates bring him to the polls by auto- amendment. yet I have no doubt that he has given quite as. mobile. mark his ticket for him. return him to his fireside with much attention to it as have the proponents of other amendments. many and effusive thanks. but by the organized hyphenated designed to prohibit competition in the respective commodities hordes of unassimilated foreigners. to which they relate. This indifference. coupled with political considerations. I Mir.