Any kind. just so they occupy space on a ship and pay money into the purses of the steamship companies of the United States and those of foreign countries. too. Mr. President. are we to permit citizenship in this country to become in this fashion a mere matter of barter for the benefit of immigration agents and steamship companies? The cattlemen used to send their agents out into the country to buy and drive to the railroad station a carload of yearlings. They would then load them on the train and ship them to Market. That is what the financiers of the immigration business are doing now with people whom they bring here and turn loose upon the people of the United States. They have agents going through Europe who display pictures of our savings banks. with the boys and girls from our factories rushing over with hands filled with greenbacks to deposit in the bank. They say to the foreigners: "America is the place. Get your tickets. The ship will sail soon. Dont fail to get your tickets." They fill these ships with people who make the business of the immigration agent profitable and pour money into the pockets of the steamship companies. The steamship companies haul them over to America. and as soon as they step off the decks of their ships the problem of the steamship companies is settled. but our problem has but begunbolshevism. red anarchy. blackhan(lers. and kidnapers. cliallengig the authority and the integrity of our flag. and still we find people who want us to have loopholes in the law so that such may continue to come in. I do not intend to vote for any such proposition. I would like to shut for a time the immigration door. Thousands come here who never take the oath to support our Constitution and to become citizens of the United States. They pay allegiance to some other country while they live upon the substance of our own.
Identified stereotypes
Associating immigrants with bolshevism, red anarchy, blackhanders, and kidnappers.