It brings about hatred and contempt and breeds dissatisfaction against the lawmaking body to define what races are pure and what races are impure. To come down to the real proposition. we can not determine the exact races of a country of which we have no statistics. As a matter of fact. as the testimony shows before the Committee on Immigration. our statistics gd back only a hundred years. I have been opposed to the national origin and served notice on this House way back on May 9. 1924. when I had occasion to address this House during the discussion of the proposed act of 1924. which Is now a law. and not alone did I point out at that time that Congress was about to discriminate against southern and eastern Europe. but that by accepting the nationalorigin scheme and. permitting it to remain on the statute books it would further discriminate against other races. What happened?
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