Some reasons have been advanced in debate in support of this bill ir which I do not concur. I desire to place o record a general conception of the reasons why I will support this hill. To us the word "immigrant" should not be offensive. We are a Nation of Immigrants and the descendants o immigrants. The original stock. the American Indian. yielded to the white mans civilization and long since became only a negligible factor in our civilization. Our country has been the great haven of immigrants. Stocked by the blood of many lands. receiving the blood of yet many other lands. America h s evolved her own type. everywhere recognized among the people of the earth. Development of that type. of this Nation. of its institutions aind ideals. has been a process of amalgamation. assimilation. and development. In the main. the Immigrant still comes to America as our ancestors came. They come because to them America iS the land of opportunitythe opportunity to escape unsatisfactory conditions there. the opportunity to work out a more favorable destiny here. A desire of selfbetterment is the underlying desire that promotes the progress of the human race. Who shall say that this desire of the immigrant is not commendable? I .would not defeat his aspiration in hate. I would not deny his hope without regret. I would base our refusal on no selfconceited and offensive claim that we " are not as other men." I would not debate the right of our Nation to exclude immigration. That is the inherent right of every nation. even the weakest on this globe. Our country is the land of our hories.
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