Mr. President. may I say to the Senator that I think he is doubtless correct in that assertion. but I remember. when the restrictive immigration law was passed. that the great steel mills of the East and some of the other great industries of the East argued to us just as forcefully and almost as tearfully as some of the people from the State from which I come argue today that it was an utter impossibility for them to exist prosperously. or adequately to maintain their industries. if we did not permit the labor of certain races to come in from the East. We restricted immigration at that time. and what wd are up against in this bill is. it seems to me. whether or not we believe in a restrictive immigration policy. If we do. we can not apply that policy alone to the Atlantic shore. and say that we of the Pacific will blow holes in it and eat it away whenever we are concerned. That strikes me as being one of the things that we must determine in this bill.
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