Speech #710180297

I favor giving them independenceand the sooner the better. But that question is not before us. I submit to those who now do me the honor to listen that the gravity of this problem. the immigration problem now before the Senate. can not be overstated. My amendment relates to one phase or branch of that problem. The pending bill relates to Mexico and all Central and South American countries. My amendment relates to Asiatic or oriental immigration. specifically to Philippine immigration or migration into continental United States. There are less than 2.000.000.000 human beings on this earth. and practically onehalf of them live over yonder across the Pacific iWu what we may term " the Orient." Speaking generally. we belong to the Caucasian branch of the human family. They of the Orient to another and different branch of the human family. and. for reasons which I need not go Into. these two branches of the human family are not assimilable.