We would providing a quota of 1 per cent. based on the census of 1910 be partisans if we were to disguise from ourselves or from the for southern and eastern Europe and 5 per cent. based on the country the impending reductions in the volume of manu- same census for northern and western Europe. facture. the probable reduction of the tonnage carried by the Mr. President. my protest rests on the ground of this disrailways the diminution of employment. and unless the volume crimination. I never will consent to base our immigration law of immigration be restricted rigidly. widespread unemploy- upon the new principle of racial discrimination that is involved ment and widespread diminution of wages by American wage in this proposition. For 130 years we have had selection. so earners and the consequent results to the American farmer far as Europe is concerned. Now. we have a quota limiting who will have need of an American market when the European the number. and here it is proposed to raise the question of market for American goods is very much smaller than It is racial discrimination.
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