The lower part Is a kitchen and upstairs is the living room. if you can call it such. and the sleeping rooms for the family. and they have to sleep there. Sometimes they have boarders and sometimes there are four or flve sleeping In a room. With this knowledge. of our neglect. of our Indifference to the immigrant and his opportunities for assimilation and Americanization. how unfair. how injurious Is the opprobrious language used in the references to him in the pages of the measure! They have been called mongrels. garbage. riffraff. anarchists. socialists. and Bolshevists. Evefy conceivable name that could be thought of has been used in describing these immigrants and their families whom we have forced into most unsatisfactory living and working conditions. AIen and women who have come from the open fields of Europe. farmers and peasants who have lived in the sunshine and amid the song and laughter of their native surroundings. overnight have been forced into the conditions of living of which complaint is very properly made. Well you know we have done this. and we have done It regardless of their condition of life. regardless of their Americanization. regardless of their souls. regardless of their spiritual welfare. Let us be humane and just to the immigrant. and if we are we will In the future concern ourselves more about the living conditions of. these foreigners rather than condemn and abuse them and close our ports to them. Let us think of them as human beings and less as undesirables. Mr. President. our slight work of assimilation let us frankly admit. has been haphazard and often misguided. yet the war proved. to the credit of our immigrants. that we were as closely united a country as many of the more homogeneous States of Europe. we attained without conscious effort results in assimilation that Germany with all her systematic efforts failed to attain. THzORusS OF RACE VALUE INSULTINO The theories of superior race value and selection that have accompanied the discussion of this question are humiliating and insulting. Do we fancy that the peoples and Governments of Italy.
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