Mr. BYRNES of South Carolina. It may not have been the When confronted with these facts. those who favor unre- only issue. but I have heard from reliable sources that it was stricted immigration as a solution for our farmlabor problems the controlling issue that influenced the people of Milwaukee. usually take the position that the admission of Immigrants will The fact that he did It ought to have been sufficient issue to result in the negro returning to the farms of the South. But cause his defeat. When I look at the census I find that 78 per this is equally untenable. If it Is proposed to admit a suffi- cent of the people of Milwaukee were either foreign born or cleat number of immigrants to break down the wage scale and children of foreign born. and it Is an additional reason for redrive the negro out of the Industries which he has entered in stricting immigration. When In the United States of America a candidate for the office of the chief magistrate of a city refuses to express sympathy for the death of an exPresident of the United States of America. and is supported by the 78 per cent of people of foreign birth and parentage. it shows they do not understand our people or Institutions and should be Americanized before we admit any more.
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Immigrants are portrayed as not understanding American people or institutions.