While I have the floor I want to say in conclusion. that the nativistic philosophy that seems to be permeating many sections of the country carries no weight or force with me. I kniow the Northwest and our people. I know that less than 100 years ago those whose parents were immigrants in the New England States migrated to the Mississippi Valley. I know that the immigrants from all the vations of the world who were admitted in tfe United States have been men and women who from the very discovery of America laid here the foundation for a free government. In tb1e very nature of things. that -would come about. As the New England migration swept westward into the Mississippi Valley it went on and on to the Pacific coast.
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