We do not want one class of people to have to live down on a lowly order of intelligence like serfs and peons. with insufficient wages and salaries. while we have at the same time a great aristocratic class in order to uphold the traditions of aristocracy and wealth and power. What this country needs is a class of citizens with intellect. moral character. and the background which conies from a living wage enabling them to live as people are entitled to live in a democracy such as this. I give Senators the opportunity now to vote for a measure which. at a time of universal unemployment in America. says that no foreign immigration shall come into this country to break down the price of American labor for the next five years. I call attention to the fact that in offering the amendment I am not offering anything novel. Similar provisions have been adopted by Germany. by Hungary. by Rumania. by Switzerland. and by practically all of the European countries.
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