Mr. Chairman. I wish to state that unless this bill which is confessedly discriminatory in its operations. t and which. to my mind. is prejudiced and unAmerican in its provisions. is radically changed so as to do full and complete f justice to all immigrants coming to the shores of this great Res public. I will most assuredly vote against its passage. e It is my belief that immigrants who are mentally. morally. and physically unfitthose who are likely to become a public - chargeanarchists and others opposed to organized government 0 and who hold doctrines subversive to law and good order should o not be admitted to this country. But this bill goes much further. Its avowed reason for changing the basis of calculation I to the census beginning 34 years ago rather than the adoption f of the normal basis of the census of 1920. or of continuing the v basis of 1910. is to admit a minimum of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe and a maximum from northern and e western Europe. It is the intention of this bill to ram down our throats a belief in the supposed superiority of the Nordic races as against an imaginary great inferiority of the southern races. Gentlemen.
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Immigrants from eastern and southern Europe are portrayed as inferior to those from northern and western Europe.