Madison by saying: I think our Government will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as tie people ore chiefly agricultural. and this will be as long as there shall be vacant land in America. When they (meaning the people) get piled up on one another in large cities. as in Europe. they. will become corrupt as in Europe. I wish to call your attention to this fact. that the Constitution ill its present form in providing for the apportionment of Representatives in Congress to the several States takes into consideration the whole and entire population of tile United States. excluding Indians not taxed. and that. without regard to whether the population consists of American citizens or people of foreign birth who are not yet naturalized. In some of the large industrial sections. and particularly in the East. there are now in some localities as many. and in son instances more. people of foreign birth than there are nativeborn American citizens. And this bill. if permitted to become a law. is transferring more power by providing for an increased membership in many of these localities. and correspondingly it is lessening the comparative strength of many sections of the country where 90 or more per cent of the people are nativeborn Americans.
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