I am glad the Senator asked that question. because I think the answer to it ought to lie at the bottom of all we do in the matter of immigration. The moment we come to compare nationalities we get ourselves into an abysmal conflict. No two men can agree on their preferences among nationalities as such. and everything I have ever said about immigration. and I believe everything Congress has ever done. has been on the theory that the most recently arrived Greenland Eskimo is the exact equivalent in desirability to the descendant of the first families of Virginia. We can not go on any other basis. and I would not for one moment claim that the average English immigrant is to be preferred in desirability to the immigrants from Germany or the Scandinavian countries. or from any other part of the world. I am willing to concede that every blessed one of them is the equal of my own steck. or of myself. We will get into trouble. and we will get into insoluble difficulties. if we ever go on any other basis.
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