Speech #710026738

I have attended many meetings of Its posts. I have attended numerous meetings of the departments and department conventions. I have heard literally scores of discussions of the question of immigration. I have heard literally scores of men suggesting that there should be either exclusion or restriction. but I can state very truthfully to the Senate that 1 have never yet heard there one man expressing himself as being in favor of the nationalorigins system. and I think it is literally true that outside of those circles where its representatives are working at the National Capital the Legion has given but little consideration to the mechanics of the law of restriction. for after all whether the 1890 census or the nationalorigins plan shall be used as a basis just goes to the question of the mechanics of the restriction. it is just the means or the mode by which we arrive at the thing in which we are interested.