Kosciusko. Gallatin. Von Steuben. and all the rest are just as much interested in the permanent immigration policy of the United States as the yet unborn descendants of Schuyler or Carroll of Carrollton or of Jefferson. Once an American citizen. all others are "aliens." If you do not like that. make it harder to attain citizenship. If you do not like that. you have it in your power to make It harder to obtain the privileges of an American citizen. But when a man is once admitted by naturalization a citizen of this Nation lie Is an American citizen. When you once admit a man to that type of rank and rights which was held to be. in the days of Rome. the proudest -distinction that any man In the world could hold. and when you make a man an American citizen you have no business talking about his being a foreigner. He is not a foreigner. le has stopped being a foreigner.
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