In medicine. in art. in industry. in finance and science he has taken a high and honorable place. Those who would proscribe him are merely the advocates of medieval intolerance. German immigrants came to this country in great numbers. and the same old cry was raised. Yet even at this hour. when the fogs of prejudice still hang thick in the skies of national opinion I do not hesitate to say that the German immigrants to this country have added a sturdy strain to the American blood. And so the cry goes on and on and on by those who happen just now to be here: "Behold us. the great and the mighty I See how pure are the currents of our veins! Are they to be contaminated by these foul bloods from abroad?" Yet in their own arteries there flow the commingled bloods of the despised people of Europethe same bloods you would bar today. � The proponents of this bill tell us we are about to be suddenly overwhelmed by a tidal wave of immigrants. A sort of a policy of knownothingism is sweeping the country. It is the narrowest policy that ever cursed the soul of man.
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Generalization about German immigrants adding a 'sturdy strain' to American blood.