Speech #680040309

Only 20 per cent of the people of the city of New York are native born of nativeborn parentage. What happens in the city of New York? I read from the New York American of February 20. 1924. the following: The board of aldermen yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution petitioning Congress to defeat the Johnson immigration bill. That shows the effect of the foreign born in the United States in attempting to dictate to Congress what laws should be passed and what should be defeated. Now. the St. Louis GlobeDemocratwhat does it -say? On February 10. 1924. in an editorial the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat says: Warnings that the State of New York will be lost to the Republicans next fall if the bill passes are not to be taken too seriously. The regulation of Immigration has never been a partisan issue. and the humane provisions of this bill ought to appeal to rather than affront the naturalized vote in the East. whose alienation is alleged to be threatened. The New York Times of February 26 says:* Too many of the protests against Immigration restriction have been made by persons more interested in specific foreign groups or foreign nations than in the homogeneity of the United States. According to another newspaper. it appears that foreignlanguage newspaper editors lave organized to defeat the bill. Not only nationals in the United States but foreign nations throughout the world are attempting to defeat this bill.