The step that we are about to take now should have been taken ninny years sooner. There has already been a great deal of damage done. a great deal of hardship worked on the American by the laxity of the mmmigration law. This bill maiy not be just the kind of a bill that many of us would like to have passed. yet we have to admit that it is a step in the right direction and that the necessity actually exists that we. as representatives of all classes of the people of this country. are required to pass an immigration bill inmediately. America has proven herself generous when calamities aind misfortunes have befallen other nations. When they appeal to us we respond with charitable contributions. but there is a limit. We (an contrih)ute to people who are in dire need (if our financial aid. but we can not conveniently give up to those. people our homes and the homes that we and our forefathers have built for the future generations of this country. and we should not be expected to. Time argument that by the passage of this bill some nations will be hostile toward is is not a sound. logical argument. WVellthinking people of all nations would never expect us to keep a wideopen door as we have in the past and to allow immigrants to enter in large quotas and with few restrictioi.. to such an extent that this country would soon be overpol lated. For the sake of and In memory of our forefatlier an1 the principles they so nobly stood and fought for. and for tin safety of the present generation. and with fond antlcipations of the enjoyment and prosperity of our rising generations. let us pass this bill.
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