We have a right to say just who shall come here. We have a right to decide for ourselves who shall make up the citizenship of this country. If the Senator from Mississippi will go back and read in the RECORD the proceedings in the House. he will find that when we had restricted immigration measures up. not one but all of them. the socalled Tammany Democrats voted against them. They always voted against them. They fought them to the bitter end. and if we had relied upon support from that element in the Democratic Party we would not have had any immigration law yet. The Democrats of the South and the Republicans of the West are the ones who put this law upon the statute books. and we are going to remain on guard. We are not going to have any serious inroads made upon this law. We are gohg to tighten it up rather than loosen it up. I do not want anybody to get the impression from what the Senator from Mississippi said that any element coming into power would safeguard our immigration interests in the United States. It is not true. Those who compose one group of our citizens are fundamentally in favor of open and unrestricted immigration. not only to increase membership in their church but to increase their political power in the United States. It is a part of their religious program. and I am not in favor of giving them power to control this immigration question. That was one of the great questions in the recent campaign. Governor Smith. in his acceptance speech. said that the law ought to be changed in certain particulars.
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Generalizing about a group that favors open immigration to increase church membership and political power.