Speech #690145696

Upa Cleveland a biga da Elanna boss man he hey a friend who meet me Tonys saloon and he tella me to getta my " wops" and he geeve me un dollar for them each vota like dat so I getta 50 " bucks" ($50) for 50 " wops "un della un wop vota da Republicana way. I lika thisa one gran countree. lotsa mon me vota Republicana teeket." Having been raised only a few miles from the home of the man who was the Republican candidate for President and he being a friend of my father and a boyhood hero of mine. I intended the following day to vote for the Republican candidate for President. but when Popini. the naturalized alien told me. In his broken English. that he had received $50 for the votes of "50 wops " as he called them. I changed my mind and from that day until this have been a Democrat. I merely mention this in passing to illustrate what some nativeborn Americans did to give the alien a perverted conception of political. social. and civic responsibility. Thousands of aliens received their first impressions of America from contacts that were corrupt. .and we. therefore. need not seem surprised if now and then an alien becomes antisocial and behaves in a fashion that is unAmerican. This legislation for the deportation of criminals. antisocial aind revolutionary aliens whose behavior is a menace to organized society. is constructive and essential legislation that will receive the indorsemlent of every citizen who thinks and acts in behalf of his countrys welfare. But legislation for the deportation of the alien who refuses to behave himself is not enough. There also must be the education of the alien in the principles and in the spirit of the American idea. One of the best methods of educating the alien Is for the nativeborn Americans to behave themselves. obey the laws. act like Americans. and set the alien a good example of what an American citizen ought to do and ought to be.