I am opposed to any discrimination as to foreign countries or nationalities. but my insistence is that this per cent on the 1890 census comes nearer placing all people in the country on equality than any other census. I insist that if the 1910 census was taken as a basis. that it would be a discrimination against the people of other nationalities who live In America who originally came from northern and western Europe. Discrimination. prejudice. this bill is the product of a narrow and bigoted class. without knowledge of the facts. coming from a country where there is no immigration and know nothing of the factsthese are some of the charges that have been made against your committee. which is responsible to a great extent for the bill. Out of 17 on that comnittee. scattered throughout the United States. 15 from 13 different States reported this bill as fair to the American people. Why do they try to divert the real issue? Because they know that the American people are fair. because they know the people of this House are fair. and we say to you that it Is not the alien. that it is not the foreign born that are entitled to this quota. but It is the American people. No foreigner or foreign nation hits any right in this country except what we give him. It Is a matter of privilege and not a matter of right.
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