I may be as wrong as I consider the gentlemans theory is. but nevertheless we will respect each others viewpoint. I am going to assist in voting down this 1890 census. You can restrict your immigration just as closely as you desire through the literacy test and the mental capacity and the physicalcondition test. We do not want the scum of Europe. and they can not come in here. and I do not think there is a man opposed to this bill on the floor today who is advocating doing away with the quota system at all. I have not heard that at all. If we accept the scare of the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Box] admitting people coming here by the thousand from every boat that can be put into the service. we must say that we do not believe in any quota system at all. I have heard no such position as that advocated on this floor during this debate. Let us play fair. A few weeks ago a representative group of Hebrew gentlemen and ladies from Massachusetts waited upon the Massachusetts delegation to protest against this bill and the discrnination of the 1890 census for the ratio. I wish some of the supporters of the bill could have attended the meeting in the Speakers rooms. They were prominent business men. leading lawyers. and citizens of the very highest type. some of them immigrants and some of them children of immigrants. I. for one. am not willing to cast my vote here in a way that would discriminate against a race which can furnish material for such a group of people as those to whom I refer represent. At the time the Johnson bill was reported to the House I happened to be in my district.
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Generalization about 'scum of Europe'