Speech #680076757

W. and Bolshevism in New York City. They were not the foreignborn Russians at all. They were our nativeborn American citizens. and they ought to be Americanized. as much as if not more than the foreign born. The Russian immigrant who comes to America today can easily be assimilated. because he left Russia on account of conditions in Russia. because he wants no more Bolshevism. because the dream he once had has been exploded. and he can be better assimilated here than some of the foreignborn from the Nordic countries. The question was raised about naturalization. and the gentlemen from Colorado . trying to explain why the foreign born of Nordic countries take longer to be naturalized than those from southern and eastern Europe. said that the immigrant that comes. from the oppressed lands can easily throw off his allegiance to his native country. but that the immigrant who comes from Canada takes longer to become naturalized. because he lived in a country having a liberal government. That may be. but he always has a mental reservation in favor of his native country. I am against any American citizen who has any mental reservation. I much prefer the man who says. "The country I came from had a government not as good as that of my adopted country." because we are more sure of having better citizens from that stock than from those who come here aid become American citizens for business purposes only. always with a mental reservation that his native country is much better. There is one other feature of this bill that I want to call attention to. Chairman JOlaNSON in February of last year presented a bill passed on the census of 1890. but he did appreciate that there was a great need for uniting the families. and he provided under that bill that the nonquota immigrants should be the wife. the husband. the father and mother. the unmarried child. and unmarried brothers and sisters. Most of these relatives have been eliminated from the bill except the wife. the husband. and parents over 55 years of age. and minor unmarried children. I wonder whether that was not put in the bill as a bait. as one good feature in order to have this House adopt the vicious principle of the census of 1890. whereby here in America we will have two classes of people. one an inferior class. because. unfortunately perhaps. their cradles were rocked in southern or eastern Europe. and the other a socalled superior class. because they had a choice of birthplace in northern or western Europe?