We have a right to. and we should designate. what peoples may come into our country. and under what conditions they may come. I had an amendment printed last year. I did not offer it. because at the time it did not seem that it would do any good. but I favor selective Immigration. The Congress should say. "This country. because of the racial characteristics of its people. may have so many Immigrants coming into the United States. and that country may have so many. but this country can have only so many. because we do not believe that the racial characteristics and qualities of their people make them easily adaptable to American ways and to the American nationality." I do not resent particularly anyone getting up and criticizing me for my stand. that is the privilege of any Senator on the floor. But. so far as I am concerned. I have said exactly what I stand for and why I stand for it. and I will put my stand as a patriotic American. as a believer in an American nationality. and racial blood and characteristics. up against the argument of any man who favors the nationalorigins plan over and above the plan based on the census of 1890. so far as its result upon the blood of America and the best interests of America and the people of America is concerned.
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Some people's racial characteristics and qualities do not make them easily adaptable to American ways and to the American nationality.