President. would it be regarded as unjust and unfair for us to require the libertyloving men and women of the Old World who really want to better their condition and to come into this great land of liberty to learn the language of this country. and to know how to speak it wlen they come? There ought to be only one language spoken in this country and that is the American language. I have here a statement in the hearings in the House where one of the immigration officers tells about a Member of Congress coming to get certain people into this country. The officer asked the Member of Congress why he was so insistent. stating that they had already exceeded their quota. had brought more people in than the law allowed. and the Member replied: "I have 8.000 foreign voters in my district." So. Mr. President. we have now come to the most vital thing in the life of the Nation when we are passing upon the question as to who shall or who shall not make up the citizenship of our country. I state it as my opinion from what I have already read and from what I have read in the last two years. that more than a half million people have come Into this country each year and no account has been made of them in the records of immigrants. I believe that in the last three years at least a million and a half have come into our country with no record whatever kept of them. Why? Because they bought from corrupt immigration officials the privilege of coming in. and no record. of course. was kept of them. I doubt the figures of the records that have been kept because an agent who will sell the right to come into this country to the unfit hordes that have come will falsify the record that he makes for the Government. He has already done something worse when he permits them to come.
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