President. that it would be a wonderful thing if on the twentyfirst birth(lay of every boy and girl in America there could be some solemn celebration when there could be impressed upon their young minds what it means to be an American citizen. The foreigners who have come to our shores desire to become citizens. We have greatly restricted immigration. and in the future the numbers must be very small. but those who are here now must be assimilated. they must be taken into our body politic. I appeal to my colleague. He knows how sensitive and proud these people are. I do not want them to feel that my colleague has any lack of desire in his heart to let these aliens come into the possession of our citizenship. I do not want them to sy of him that he is rich. that he has all the things which longtime residence and a fine family can contribute to make up happiness in this world. and that he would deny to them the privilege of citizenship. I appeal to him that they may not feel that there is in his heart any desire to clog the wheels of naturalization. He has presented to us. and I know he is sincere in it. the thought that somehow or other 8 clerks and a half dozen judges Can do the same work that 37 clerks and 31 judges have done in the past. It can not be done.
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