I shall not discuss at length the right or the possible duty of tile United States to actually and actively discriminate. though that might well be discussed. The United States ought not to have to apologize for or explain any actual discrimination which it might think expedient for its own welfare and prosperity. Immigration. a matter going to tile very lifeblood of the American people. is a matter to be decided ii their interests and not ill the interests of any other people or nation. If we were inclined to be so arbitrary. we would be well within our rights to decide that no inmigrant should be admitted unless he was 6 feet 2 inches tall and bad red hair. The complaint which alleges discrimination against other countries in regard to the numbers of their people whom we shall admit necessarily rests upon some theory of the right of those countries that their nationals shall be admitted.
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