Speech #710025970

Mr. President. on Monday when. discussing this question I made reference: to the suggestion..of hyphenated .Americanism that has. entered. into the propaganda. in support of the nationalorigins clause. and gave notice that I should desire to speak upon that subject on the following day. The situation yesterday. however. did not offer an opportunity for me to continue my remarks. and so at this time I want to state that the propaganda which has been sent forth endeavors to make it appear that many of those. indeed I might say almost all of those. who are advocates of the repeal of the nationalorigins clause of the immigration act are not of a high patriotic type of American citizens. rather that they are hyphenated Americans. I say that to question ones patriotism in this controversy is nothing short of cowardly. I do not say that such charges have been made here on the floor. but in the propaganda which has been disseminated they have been repeatedly. made. I have before me an advertisement taken from a recent edition. the edition of May 21. of the Chicago Tribune over the signature of the Immigration Restriction Association of America. and I want to read from that advertisement one paragraph. as follows: Tie bulk of the opposition to national origins was and is of hyphenated inspiration and organization. Two kinds of hyphenates are Involved-(1) those opposed to all restrictions who want to knock out national origins as the first step toward breaking down all restriction. and (2) those somewhat unassimilated groups who desire to retain for the nation of their derivation the special privileges they are enjoying under the present temporary 1890 "foreignborn" (and quite unAmerican) quotas. Both groups are people whose bodies are in America but whose hearts are In Europe.