I recent:y took a census of the Members of Congress to determine how many of its members had one or more parents who migrated to America. Sixteen and seventyfive hundredths percent have a parent or parents who came to America to start life over. One out of every six members of Congress. 89 in all. came from such homes. where they had a chance to hear about the opportunity America offers as distinguished from the opportunities in the old country. Most of these migrantsas my father didcame in steerage. Some of them never got beyond the stage of being a workman with his hands. But their sons had a chancenot through subsidiesbut through opportunity to work and learn and save and acquire property.
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