Speech #680076690

And I think that. in a large sense. I can apply this to my Nation and my country. I will cheerfully join with the committee in restricting our Immigration. Indeed. I will go so far as to bar It altogether for 5 or even 10 years. if that is found to be advisable. But I do not like the discriminating provisions of the bill. And what I like least of all is the reason given by some gentlemen for these discriminations. I do not say any member of the Committee on Immigration has advanced these reasons. but many Members have used the words "foreigners" and "aliens" in a way that has aroused my ire. It all depends on what you understand by these terms. I have noticed a slight allusionoh. sometimes it has been more than an allusionto the supposed fact that because a person has some remote connection with the Mayflower and Its people he has in a way preempted the United States and has a certain aristocracy of birth that entitles him to look upon all other nationalities in this world melting pot as interlopers and aliens. and as lacking In true Americanism.