Speech #710174485

I. do not believe there are 2 11r cent of native born In that union. They are all former iminigrants. These people are the tailors ofNew York. every one of them an immigrant. The other photograph here shows the courtyard of that building. Just look at that cheerful. beautiful garden. They have their own auditorium. their own playgrounds. their own nursery. and their own sanitation department. Observe the splendid layout of the building_a window in every room and a bit of sunshine in every window. The owners- of these apartments have solved for themselves the questiob of congestion and the immigration. problem. This is the immigrantof today. You are going to keep these good workingmen and working women who have established. their homes here from sending for their parents. This is the immigrant of today and this is a. living demonstration of the desirability of these immigrants in spite of the abuse and. vilification heaped upon them for years by narrowminded and. prejudiced restrictionists. Are you going to say. will you not say. " We will give you the right to bring your fathers and: mothers to this country now so that they may share your contentment "? To say the contrary would: not be right and would not bebased on any sound reason. The children of the immigrants are going into the high schools and colleges. You said. "Let us Americanize the immigrant." We did so. and because we have done so do you want to make their lives miserable.by_ keeping theiraged parents out of the country?