Mr. .Speaker. in forming a new immigration law.for our country we must keep in mind the future .and.determine what the result will be to theperpetuity of our Government. its institutions. and the peace..progress. and hap.piness of the American people. Many of the advocates of loose tand liberal immigration laws are either selfishly or erroneously thinking only of the desires and welfare of the alien who .dc.sires to eater. believing that the United -States should adopt them all. with their misfortunes. their peculiar and hereditary customs. and in -some instances their vicious tendencies. A merica. however benevolent herdesire to uplift and encour-: age -the peoples of foreign lands. can not become .the asylum of the distressed and the unfortunate of every country any more than the altruistic man can receive all the orphans and widows of a community into his own -home. The homeland must be kept inviolate. .1 believe in world cooperation and that we should assume our .portion of responsibility to promote honest diplomacy. law. .and order. that peaceful methods maybe substituted for hatred and war. but in order to faithfully serve the humanity of the world our country must keep her own -household pure and uncorrupted.
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Immigrants bring misfortunes, peculiar and hereditary customs, and vicious tendencies.