Speech #790106164

This bill is not a question of whether we are trying to do something detrimental to or something good for the black race. the yellow race. the red race. or the white race. That question does not enter into it. It is a question now of letting people into this country on our immigration Quota system. I think that after this great World War we arc in the most dangerous position the Nation has ever been in. in a dozen different ways. so that our actions now and our actions from now on must be the very essence of good common sense. for the best interests of the greatest number of our American people and. above all. for the perpetuation of our form of government and the saving of the rights. the liberty. and the things that the American people have enjoyed. I am terribly afraid that with conditions as they are in our country today and with the great amount of propaganda that is going on in this country to make this country communistic. we are in the most dangerous spot we have ever been in in our whole history. So be careful in immigration. labor. finances. We are in danger from a dozen different directions. Let us look at the situation as regards immigration. Our immigration- laws were passed originally for the purpose of maintaining jobs in America for the American citizen. so that we would not -let into the field of American labor thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions of people who want to replace the American laborer and take his job away from him by cheap peon labor. I think we have done a grand job in these years in building up the American standard of living to the highest it has ever been. Are we going to tear that down? Be careful. watch your step. do not let down the immigration bars for cheap labor. in fact. most all people who can will try to gain entrance to the United States.