Speech #680083491

I do not take his amendment nor the census of 1890 upon any reason other than this: Both the census of 1800 and the amendment offered by the Senator from Pennsylvania seem to me to admit the largest number of assimilable. wholly assimilable. ea .ily assimilable. races into the United States. and to exclude those races or the people from those nations that are with most difficulty absorbed into our life without injury to us. In making this final statement permit me to repeat that the whole question is one of such broadness and one of such great importance as to admit of very great variety of opinion and of marked and strong differences of view about it. But it does seem to me in the discussion of the question that we should discuss it candidly and frankly. without regard to the question of inferiority or superiority or equality of races that so often finds its way into a discussion of the immigration question.