But. Mr. President. the time has come when America should assert its rights on the immigration question and not be affected by the sensitive pride or the wolnded feelings of any nation. If we were to yield on this question. there would be a great. many nations who would come here and claim the same exemption. the same rights. the same privileges. We should exmrcise our sovereim will. The time has come for the immigration question to be settled. not through any Ill will. not through any enmity. but with firmness and resolution. My experience has taught me that an individual who settles his difficulties and troubles and gets them behind him as promptly as possible has a better life of success than one who lets his troubles accumulate. The nation progresses faster and proceeds more rapidly if it gets its troubles behind it and all settled. The time has come to settle the immigration question. and to settle it from the American standpoint. It is the right of America to determine this question itselffairly. justly. diplomatically. but with firmness and resolution.
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