A citizen of New York City. even though he be a part of the Tammany machine. has just as much right to be represented in Congress. so long as our Constitution stands. as either a farm owner or a farm hand in the State of Kansas. But he has no right to any more representation than the Kansas farmer merely because a lot of aliens have settled in New York City. The present situation. which the New York newspapers and the newspapers of other big cities conveniently ignore or seek to conceal. is that a million citizens of the United States. native and naturalized. today have more representation than a million United States citizens in Kansas or a million citizens of the United States in upState New York. These citizens of New York City have this padded representation solely through counting for representation in Congress about a million and a quarter unnaturalized foreigners in New York City. This is the thing the proposed amendment would stop. and it ought to be stopped.
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