Of course. everybody wants peace on earth. peace at home. and peace abroad. and therefore it was quite appropriate that another resolution has been this day introduced looking toward a consummation of the prophecy or dream in which the world has indulged since time )egan. I say this with the utmost respect for those who are respectively urging these various subject matters. but I hope the Senate will agree with me that there is one subject matter which in a sense rises above and is more important than any or all of those to which I have thus briefly referred. and that. I venture to say. is the subject matter immediately before the Senate. for the subject matter of immigration comes home to the very vitals. the very heart of the Nation. Therefore I hiope that Senators will be patient when I arrest their attention to one phase of this great national problem. At this stage I wish to say with all candor and all earnestness that in considering the immigration problem I divest myself of all party feeling. I cast out of my mind all party prejudice if I have any. I forget partisanship entirely ...i1 think first and always of America. and I speak here today not my own feelings or conviction only. for I am privileged. I am warranted. In speaking the mature and deliberate Judgment of many great national organizations and of many of tme great Commonwealths of our country. I say. therefore. that. however Important other matters may be. this question rises above them all. and manifestly in view of the fact that our present laws upon this subject are soon to expire it is of pressing iamportance and necessity that we speedily pass an appropriate immigration law. Wimy have I thus troubled Senators with these miany words concerning tim importance of this legislation? Fronm my point of view the importance of this legislation springs out of the form. the character of our Govrnment.
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