Where does duty direct us. the lawmakers of the Nation. in a crisis like this? Shall we stop to quibble about percentages and quotas and the relativity of nationalities permitted to enter our ports or had we not better "close the gates" for awhile and await the assimilation of those already here? I. for one. honestly 1believe that the time has arrived when America should take an " immigration vacation " for at least two or three years and use every power and influence at her command to thoroughly assimilate those we already have among us from other shores. This is not discrimination. but rather a desire to bring about successful and speedy digestion. You. who here represent districts far removed from either eastern or western -seaboards. can scarcely realize your full duty in this matter. but we who come from those sections which are alive with the seething masses of peoples from almost every country on the globe. we who come into daily contact with these unassimilated elements of discord and strife. we who daily rub elbows with those who frequently preach sedition rather than absorb true American patriotism. have a duty to perform which can not be brushed aside by a plea of ignorance.
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Generalizes that immigrants are unassimilated elements of discord and strife who preach sedition.