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When it takes only a brief residence in lusioned. The " melting pot" has proved to be a myth. We this country and the most simple tests in the veneer of "Ameriare slowly awakening to the consciousness that education and canzatimn " to make the rawest recruit in immigration entitled environment do not fundamentally alter racial values. Today to sit in judgment as a "peer" in an American jury. one can we face the serious problem of the maintenance of our historic readily sense the great menace to all law: republican Institutions. Now. what do we find in all our large This American democracy of ours is not merely a form of governcities? Entire sections containing a population Incapable of mert. but primarily a social and a spiritual community. closely knit understanding our institutions. with no comprehension of our together by sentiment. tradition. interest. and aspiration. It is posnational ideals. and for the most part incapable of speaking sessed of a common consciousness. a general will. the English language. Foreign language Information service The fight today for restricted immigration is the fight of gives evidence that many southern Euh1ropeans resent as an un- patriotism that runs parallel with the hearths of American just discrimination the quota laws and represent America as homes and the altars of American Ideals and the foundations of showing race hatred and unmindful of Its mission to the American institutions. world. The reverse is true. Americas first duty is to those We have let in or enticed within our land innumerable people already within her own shores. An unrestricted immigration who have had no training or race inheritance in selfgovernment policy would work an injustice to all. which would fall hardest and with ideals far below ours. Our American race. the race on those least able to combat. that made the Nation what It is. is now almost swamped. The George Washington in his Farewell Address said: present battle will decide whether Americanism shall be effaced Citizens by birth or choice. of a common country. that country has from our land or whether it shall be permitted to expand and a right to concentrate your affection * * * with slight shades develop to the freedom and blessing of the human race. It is of difference. you have the same religion. manners. habits. and an epochmaking struggle. political principles. IMMIGRATTON Washington observed- Mr. SNELL. Mr.