Mr. President. as one who has spent a good part of his more active life in those countries. and as one who perhaps appreciates their point of view now far better than he did before. and knows their pride of race. their pride in their history. the fact that for many years they looked up to us as their model. they copied our Constitution. tley copied our institutions--as one who remembers they have been told repeatedly by our public men. as I pointed out yesterday and as I shall put into the RECORD later today. that they are our neighhors. that we want them to regard us differently from Europe. that we do not want them to believe the people who have been constantly preaching anitiAmericanism to them with the idea that we were lot their friendsas one familiar with these facts. I should regret extremely to see anything done. until the need arises. which would say to these 18 Republics that send us no labor. that send us n immigrants except students and teachers and merchants and others who really do not come under the quota. that send us practically no one to compete with our wage earners here: "Notwithstanding the fact that you do not compete with us. we propose to treat you on the same basis as Europe."
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