Speech #680073962

Organiza- We know that from Illinois. New Jersey. and New York: tions of foreignborn men and women protest against the passage there come to this Congress Representatives elected in great of the bill and threaten Congressmen who favor it. They are measure by the foreign born and those native born of foreign joined in their opposition by the capitalists who want cheap parentage. who influence the policies of this Government. and labor and by some few misguided persons in the agricultural thereby control the destinies not only of New York and New sections who believe that by unrestricted immigration- the labor Jersey but of California and South Carolina as well. only problems of the farm may be solved. recently we have had a demonstration of the influence of the In my own State. South Carolina. this argument has been made foreign born in our large cities. and some gentlemen in high position have lent themselves to Whenever death comes to a President of the United States. the mistaken effort to have immigrants from Europe take the Americans forget their partisanship and join in mourning. The place of the negroes who have during the last few years -left President. regardless of his politics. is my President. Within the cotton farms. The absurdity of the proposal Is at once ap- 12 months we have had a Republican President die and we parent. The immigrant who does not speak English. placed saw the people. Democrats and Republicans. join In sincere upon a farm in an Isolated section. separated from any of his grief. Then ExPresident Woodrow Wilson died in this city countrymen. engaged in cultivating a crop he never saw before. and Republicans joined Democrats In mourning his death. unable to speak to the employing farmer or to understand him.