Speech #670012027

I repeat. is better than the House bill. It would reduce the number of foreigners allowed to come into our country in any one year from about a million in 1910 to about 300.000. Again I say I would like to close the imumigration doors hard and fast for at least one year. but those who feel as does the Senator from Missouri think that it is an awful thing to shut our immigration doors for one year. Too long to keep the foreigner outof participation ill American affairs ! My boy is not 21. years old yet. but he has to live here 21. years before he can exercise the rights and privileges of an American citizen. before he can participate in elections as a voter. It would be better for the American boy if we should keep a certain class of foreigners out altogether. Immigration societies are very active in many localities of the United States. Their desires are expressed here and in the other branch of Congress. You can recognize them in thespeeches you hear against restricted immigration. As the able and distinguished Senator from New York proceeded. reminding us how brave the aliens in his locality were during the war. I thought of what happened in his city of New York while the war was on.