Chairman. for the benefit of my friend from Minnesota . may I tell him now that there will be nothing left of that predominating party that lie is talking about. not only in New York but anywhere else in the United States. if they keep up the discrimination and the knowledge obtained regarding the predominating party in the last four months which we read about in the daily papers. This debate at times to me looks like a burlesque show. We have on this committee men from certain parts of the country for whom I have the highest regard and respect who have an idea that an immigrant has no love for America. Some of the members of the committee have the idea that immigrants from Europe have hair like Chinese. My friend Mr. RAKER. from California. has an idea that he sees Chinamen in the committee room. and so he gets away from the real matter in. question with regard to all other parts of Europe outside of the Asiatics and is in constant debate with my other colleagues on the Republican side of the committee. and. by the way. the Republican members of this committee are absolutely in fear of the gentleman from California. We have another gentleman for whom I have the greatest esteem. Judge Box. and he is afraid of the Mexicans. He never saw an immigrant nor had anything to do with them and therefore he has an idea that every immigrant who comes into Ellis Island is a Mexican. So he is a little bit disturbed about those coming from eastern and southern Europe although he .has never dealt with them nor lived with them. We have a gentleman. Mr. VAILE. who has been talking against some of the immigration in the last five years from all parts of the world. particularly against southern and eastern Europe. and prefers those from northern and western Europe because their ancestry are of a higher grade and standard. his theory is that by bringing in more from northern and eastern Europe we will have a better class of citizens. althobgh he admits that men from southern and eastern Europe have greatly contributed to the wealth and prosperity of this great United States. Yet he fixes in his mind a policy favoring those of northern and western Europe. which policy is based upon statistics of men who do not know the immigrant nor his value. nor do they know that the immigrant who enters our shores has left his home town forever. ntver to return. but to adopt our great American country as his. with love and affection for America and what it stands for. Mr. Chairman and members of this committee. some of you are determined to prejudice those immigrants coming from southern and eastern Europe in preference to those of northern and western Europe. My friend the governor from Ohio I do not think understands the immigrant. yet he talks about the immigrant without really knowing them. Now. gentlemen. mention has been made about a foreign bloc by that very gentleman from Ohio. What do you know about this foreign bloc?
Identified stereotypes
Members of the committee have stereotypical views of immigrants based on their origin.