Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee. it was Dean Swift. about a century and a half ago. who said we have just enough religion in us to hate each other. but we have not enough to love each other. and to my mind no truer saying ever came from the wit of man. because. judging from what has happened since this bill was referred out of committee. many of the proponents of this bill have indulged in a veritable pvean of hate against our alien population. and there has been let loose the dogs of racial and religious hatred and animosity. It has all resulted from the wretched error made by the committee in going back to the census of 1890 as a basis for immigration quotas. Keep the 1910 basis and I am sure the immigration calm will not be disturbed. Many who have heretofore spoken on the bill have boasted of their ancestry and have in glowing terms referred to the AngloSaxon forbears and wonderful family trees of some of the racial stocks now here. In answer I say most family trees are like ordinary trees. the best parts are underground.
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