Those who have come from the lands upon which a bar sinister is to be imposed have made valuable contributions to science. art. and literature. to a hundred different industries. to every imaginable form of commerce. and have performed much of the heavy work in our mines. furnaces. manufaetories. farms. and forests. upon our railroads. and other public works. Without them our material progress would not have been as rapid as it has proved to be. and they are needed today as they have been in the past. It is closing our eyes to known facts to suggest that this country. large sections of which are sparsely populated and whose development has not even begun. can not absorb additional immigrants and that hereafter only men of certain types or of certain creeds or nationalities ma.y be added to our great army of workers. In their eagerness to indulge in this discrimination the restrictionists. who have made propaganda for it and who do not understand the real sentiment of this country. forget that hundreds of thousands of immigrants have come to this country for the purpose of making it their home. of rendering loyal service whenever called upon to do so. and of exerting themselves in every direction to advance its interest. and. notwithstanding statements to the contrary. these immigrants have become citizens of the United States. and that they. as well as their children. are proud and grateful for that privilege. What. we beg to ask. can be their sensations when they are told that it is proposed by an act of Congress to declare them. because of their birth and ancestry. to belong to an inferior class. and that those of their blood are henceforth to be discriminated against in our immigration laws? Is it to be expected that they will conceive that those who by this legislation would be pointed out as a favored class are superior morally. physically. or mentally? Such an assumption would be contrary to human nature.
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