It seems to me that the one test I have named answers the whole question as to the fitness of these people. if they are properly selected before they comae here. which is what should be done. to amalgauiate themselves into the public life of the American people. Mr. President. let us look into this question a little further. What has foreign inmiigrat~on done for this country? I need not repeat what I said yesterday. that originally all the people of this country were immigrants. and for the most part they were the class of people that Europe was casting out. either by religious proscription. by tyranny of law. or by hard economic conditions. These were the instrumentalities that forced the people of other countries to come here originally. There were probably considerably less than 3.000.000 inhabitants of this country when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
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