Speech #710181559

I can not refrain. however. from cldling attention to the fact tlat he admits that the northern Europeans make the better citizens. but he says in effect. "Do not let them come here." The RncoI shows that he voted last summer for the nationalorigins provision and thus gave the Italians 2.000 additional. while he cut the Danes down from 3.000 to 1.000. That measure was urged upon us in the name of patriotism and the welfare of the country. If there was ever any time that immigration from southern Europe might be held back. it is now. Those immigrants go to the industrial centers. They do not go out on the land. Employment can still be found in the farming sections of the country. The north Europeans go out into the country upon the land. But there is a group in the Senate which insists that preference shall be given to tie southern Europeans. the very men who go into our cities and take jobs away from our own people. But. unfortunately. a good many of the immigrants coming from Italy have made us altogether too much trouble. Further. I do not know why we should be especially partial to that country just as this time.