Speech #710181503

We see Great Britain. the quota from which we would double under your plan. a seething mass of unemployment. with hundreds of thousands of people walking the streets. living upon doles. the mines shut down. almost disaster everywhere. unemployed living upon doles from the GovernmentGreat Britain. the powerful empire. struggling now in one of the greatest crises of her historyand you would double from that country the quota which they have had under the 1890 census. and there would come in from Great Britain. from England. and from North Ireland. whom? In the first place. Great Britain has her colonies. her territoriesCanada. Newfoundland. separate from Canada. India. Egypt. British South Africa. the British possessions in Bermuda and in the Western Hemisphere. Australia. and all the other possessions which have made Britons always boast that the sun never sets upon the British flag. They will send their choicest immigrants to their own possessions and America will get the dregs.