The purpose of this change in the bill is quite evident. It is not to protect American labor. It Is to discriminate against one class of Immigration in favor of another. If we were going to build our country from foreign lands. if we were going to allow unlimited immigration to flow into this country from all sources. I can readily see how that question might be material. But when we are limiting immigration to a very narrow field. to the field as to which those most in favor of restriction feel that we have reached the limit. as expressed In this legislation. the question of assimilation is not the serious question it would be if We had unrestricted immigration. Some may ask me why I take this position and voted the other day against the admission of Japanese into this country. In the first place. let me say that the question of immigrants coming Into this country is entirely a domestic issue. It has always been recognized as a domestic issue. It was proclaimed as a domestic Issue when the treaty of peace was signed at Versailles and was recognized as a domestic issue at the Washington conference.
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