I think. however. I have stated the fact as broadly as the statistics will show or the Senator will contend. that there has been an enormous increase in population and wealth in those countries. The Senator drew one deduction which goes further than I have been endeavoring to argue. that is. that I am arguing that our future depends upon foreign immigration. I do not claim that at all. but I claim that foreign immigration. if we properly select the immigrants. will aid us in the future. as it has aided us in the past. and no one will go further than myself In insisting upon the selection being rigidly and carefully made. . But now let me see if the Senators own illustration does not argue him out of court. If it be true that. pent up in his little country. obliged to import a large part of the supplies upon which he lives. the Belgian has made himself the richest man in the world. that must be the result of industry. of intelligence. of good citizenship. and if he has done that over there. what harm will it do to let him come over here and give us the benefit of his energy. and his intelligence?
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