Chairman and gentlemen. if I can be as much at ease as I am when at home. I want to make a statement on a subject that does not usually divide us along partisan lines. I would like to speak sanely and temperately. because moderation usually characterizes truth and sound judgment. and because I would like to have you consider. at what you believe them to be worth. the things that I say on the subject of immigration. It is now known by all of us with reasonable certainty that the effort we made to enact legislation on that important subject will prove futile so far as this Congress is concerned. The nurmiber of people coming now from Europe under the bad conditions. Lo which I will refer briefly later. if I have time. is such that it does concern the American people and concerns you when you have time to give it thought. My own appreciation of its importance is my apology for breaking in upon your deliberations to ask you to consider this subject again. I call your attention to the manner in which the tide of immigration. the number coming. has increasei since the signing of the armistice. Beginning in November 1918. more than two years ago. I give you the numbers i thousands. with the hundreds omitted: November. 1918. 8.000.
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