Recognizing the patriotism .of its promoters here as equal to my -own. I have substantial cause to fear that it originated in the worst feature of the spirit of modern labor unionism. which .seeks to .stifle every breath of legitimate competition necessary to the freedom. the health. find vitality -of the American economic life. It prescribes an unconditional and arbitrary limitation upon .immigration to this country. and that within most narrow limits. from any and all the countries of the British Empire :and continental Europe. notwithstanding it was from many of them that came the sterling stock of original settlers that sought our shores to escape the tyranny of their native land in those not fardistant days when the fires of political liberty first kindled on the altars of Christian civilization. Whether descendants of the cavailers that rode with Rupert or the offspring and kindred of the humbler type of emigrant that. seeking these shores to escape the tyranny of his native land. huddled themselves in the dark and incommodious cabin of the Mayflower. braved and bore the dangers of the wild Atlantic. landed on the barren. desolate sands at Jamestown. drove the Indian from his lazy wigwam and idle hunting ground. broke his tomahawk and bow and scalping knife. hewed down the primeval forest. built his home in its remotest depths. erected his altar for religious devotion. and with his Bible. sword. ax. plow. and pruning hook began the work that made this continent the happiest and the holiest spot on all this earth. The kindred and descendant of John Wesley. of Roger Williams. of John Bunyan. of John Knox. and William Penn is alike excluded. The heir of the inherited conception of religion and government that has broken the shackles of slavery and created the very system of civil laws which American courts proclaim today is as much under the ban of this bill as is the wild and -eird nomad of the desert.
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