Speech #680081381

First. false virtue. resting on our erude theory of indiscriminate love of all men and races. second. the vast power of employers of raw labor who are willing to wreck the American race for the sake of more private dollars. third. the determination of the alien hosts already mussed here to break down the American race so that the country may be deluged with more of their kind and Americanism extinguished before Americans awake to avert their fate. The battle which will decide whether Americanism silall be wiped out or not Is now being fought to a finish in Congress. If a drastic restriction law against Immigration is passed Americanism will be saved. If the alien elements. overawing Congress. defeat such a law Americanism will pass. and this Republic. the greatest experiment in hIman freedom ever tried. will follow ancient Rome to the grave. I thoroughly agree with this sentiment. The time for awakening has come. We must preserve American traditions and ideals by limiting the number of immigrants who come into this country to the number we can Americanize now or it will be too late. If my colleagues who oppose this bill on the grounds of discrimination. as they claim. and yet are interested in the future of this great country. why do they not offer a substitute further restricting it? Let them take the 1921 act as the basis and limit it to 1 per cent or onehalf of 1 per cent instead of 3 per cent. or. better yet. let them cut out all immigration for a short period. at least until we can Aulericanize those we already have and deport such of them as we cam not Americanize. This Is not the bill I would like to vote for. I prefer a closeddoor period and I believe a. majority of this House does. and I amn sure a majority of this country (loes. I am also in favor of ail amendment to this bill providing that all hyphenated Americans be depoorted . that all who can not under law become citizens eventually and who have been here for five or more years without applying for citizenship should also be deported. There is no room in this country. according to my viewpoint. for any people who become what they term "American citizens" and still retain the country of their birth by a hyphenated expression. When a woman marries a man and goes to live in his home she takes his name and gives up hers. Those who come to live in our homeAmericashould take our name. This bill should also provide that the many thousands of those who withdrew their applications for citizenship during the World War in order to escape the draft law and who continued to stay here and work in shipyards and other manufacturing establishments at front $10 to $20 a day while our very best young men were forced to go and fight for them should be denied citizenship and deported Immediately. I do not care where they came front Oh. but they tell us all of us are the children of immigrants. Yes. we are. We are the children of immigrantq from all over Europe. but our forefathers came to this country for a different purpose from that which prompts many of those coming today. They came for the purpose of setting up the very ideals and the very Government we are so anxious to preserve today. I do not want to be understood as saying that some of those who come today are not prompted by the best motives. but many of them. you know and I know. are not.