Speech #680074416

It makes a human and economic appeal paramount to any international differaces that have arisen in u generation or has engaged the serious !attention of the Congress. Our institutions and society are not only involved but thestability of our unexcelled form of government itself will be Impaired. If not eventually destroyed. if immigration should not be restricted. The very existence of the United States. the foremost Nation in the world. may be obliterated under the trampling feet of foreign hordes if preventive measures are not adopted to safeguard our high Ideals and established customs. and our country protected against such a menacing contingency. Many years ago Kipling. then a young man. sojourning in California. no doubt was so impressed with the laxity of our immigration laws and the easy manoer and Indifference displayed in safeguarding the -country against alien invasion that he wrote these prophetic lines. describing the American finally awakening to his plight: Ills easy. unswept hearth he lends. From Labrador to Guadeloupe. Till. elbowcd out by sloven friends Ile camps. at sufferance. on the stoop. Supporting my unwavering advocacy of the enactment of this needful legislation. it will be my purpose to refer to some of the views of wellknown authors and economists based on their observations of the dreadful results of unrestrictedimuigration. -as vell as to statistics In support of these contentions which are incontrovertible. i Revelations brought to light by the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. of which the gentleman from Washington [Mr. .on .soN] is chairman. are but an echo of the true conditions. deplorable In the extreme. that were assuming diIsturbing proportions when arrested by the enactment of the present law. Tils act. however. expires June 80 of this year. Failure to pass the pending bill would result in a retrograde movement. not only dangerous but alive with evil consequences. and create a sinister and obnoxious situation which would be troublesome in the proper adjustment and progress of our civilization.