If they are in the front in the march of empire and greatness. why will they not over here ontribute to our welfare and advantage? What harm have we suffered? The only harm I know of that the United States has suffered from foregin immigration has come not because we have failed to close our -doors in the face of all foreign nations. but because we have not been discriminating enough and careful enough as to whom we admitted. But because we have not been brave enough is no reason why we should now shut the door entirely. for that is what the bill in effect Is intended to do. Admission -ought to be a matter of selection and the selection ought to be made on the other side of the water and not here at our ports.
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