

CONGRESS, 

 the deteriorating effects of 



ne ASBVnean PVwfM** MVWHV AW 



rto foal; and natur, 



and our a. 



Uod.nl. who love thr 

 . all that in.- American people arc. In 

 - y*ars they aw wMsd * tb^tf stock. 

 and takin* impression., and 



liiiiiiiiii no in! 

 do not, except in rare and no- 



cone absorbed into the tissue 

 pTour own ,ple, Their fiber never change* 

 Though among us and appar y are 



aJien7in spirit, in tradition, and, generally, in Ian- 



^fneh a people, in the broadest and most pat riot i, 

 r be said to be desirable elements in 



I have said be true and be in 

 I need not waste words of eulogy on those splendid 

 people who, though of foreign birth, have I..-1 ; 

 make our country what it is and who share wit h us 

 a just pride in the magnili <* empire which they 



American* thwn 1 take them to be if they oppose 

 the spirit of thi* measure, 



- The disturbing, the threatening fact is that the 

 character of our immigration ha- radically cha 

 HI th< U*t twenty-five years. Prom some coin, 

 we have received a brave, stalwart, and desirable 

 people ; from others we have received an increasing 

 horde whose influence is, and has been, distinctly 

 deteriorating and demoralizing. It is against the 

 lattrr that we would route the spirit of patriotism, 

 and. if that will not suffice, we appeal to a spirit of 

 wlf-intercst 



he proof is at hand. Bv the census of 1800 

 wr |r*rn that out of every million of native-born 

 whit* inhabitants of toe I tte* 808 were in- 



mates of prisons ; out of every million of foreign- 

 born whites 1.788 were inmates? of prisons. 



.ion of nativ-i. .n, whites. 820 

 wert pauper* in almshouses; out of every million 

 of foreign-born whites, 8,131 were paupers in alms 



'To put it in another form, in proportion to the 

 there are twice as many foreign-born 

 ners as native bom. There are nearly 

 as many foreign-born white paupers as 



roroent is nnneosssary. if not mi-lending. No 

 eloquence could (mint in more vivid words the ap- 

 palling 1* hese figures present 



* Let ns now examine another iti-m of proof more 

 convincing, perhap*. than that ju-t adduced. 



"During the year ending June 80, 1H%. the num- 

 ber of immigrants landed at port* of the rnit.-d 

 wMMtK, These brought with them 

 money amounting to f4.IH7.818. or $14.80 each. 

 1! -.-.-.: that ram suffice to support these 

 on* to oar idle millions f How long was 

 it until these poor people became .. Large 



he mouth of : 



S?*?^! 1 ;*? orwo *'"n bv und.-rbi.ldi, _ 

 bborbrrjobt Is it for an/such purpose that o,,r 

 gates arc thrown open n ling masses of 



other lands invited to come in r Have thone who 

 are here no righto that we are bound to re- 



i man who w* bom under or has adopted our 

 flag has an equal right with -v. ry .th. r. but I sub- 

 mit that he has a greater, an 'infinitely greater, 

 right than those who are yet in the homes of their 



fathers across the water. I'nhappy the country 

 and distressed the |H>ol>le whieli do Ho! 



..: rt thai right, 



" In the same lection \\- l.-arn that, while the 



average amount l-!--ui:ht by the Herman immi-rant 



was f80, the Russiun brought $',.;:.. the Italian 

 $8.50, ami the A ustro- Hungarian $11.70. No man 



:uplate these unhappy people without 



imt hi- pit \ Is more bountiful and effective if 



expressed Ix-fore US unhappy ..i.jr.-t ha- 1< ft his 

 li.'MK- in another . nut ry. 



.In no 80, 1806, tlu> ii.iin- 

 f immigrant- landed at our jKirts was -I. 1 

 180, and tf Ihi I nuinher app: 



2,500,000 \\ ibOfi the age of lift, 



"Tl '> of ihj> j-Liintry has U-en tl 



ened, ana nd \er-ity has Keen and i- upon us. Many 

 Causes have e.-nspired t,, produce I hi- result. 

 the intr.Hluetion of . .i.|,-l,.Nlird \\i.rUmen 



affected it any f DoabtMSS We can al- 

 thou.-anl- of immi^! . l.m \\ ,- d., no't 



want to absorb any thai weoannol a imiiate. 



l-'orty percent.. I think, of the imiiiiirrat i-.n of 

 the la-t "t.'ii years has been distinctly undesirable, 

 It has demoralised the -..< ial conditions in many 



section- -f the country. It has d.-morali/ed lalio'r 

 and wages wherever it has gone. If there is \\,,H< 

 for him to do. the immigrant who i- ready to c..me 

 up to the American standard of li\ >in to 



Mimunity to which he com. -. The imin 



who will not raise him-elf t<> our standard is a 



menace to our rivili/atimi. no matter Imw much 



work there may be for him to do. He ha- no proper 



mioiig us. 



"The>e ought to be self-evident fact 

 find them disputed. I protest that America i- in-t 

 an asylum. We want all to come for whom we 

 have work and who can understand us and lie-..me 

 apart of us; but we do not want and do not wel- 

 come any others. Let no man mi-take the temper 

 of the American people on this point. 



it let us see now if this educational test i 

 culated to mitigate the evil from which we sum-l- 

 and from which, if relief does not soon oom 

 must suffer more. 



While intelligence is not the criterion of virtue, 

 it yet furnishes, along broad lines, a reasonably safe 

 test. We do imt need to look about us to find our 

 proof. It is not to individual in-tan. 

 need to point. Indeed, it is not to any general law 

 or to any generally accepted idea of the value of 

 intelligence that we need to look. Con-idered in 

 relation to its application to this subject of immi- 

 gration, we have only to look to the .-' 

 immigration for the past \ 



A second conference committee was appointed, 

 and both House and Senate concurred in it- n 



In the House, action wa- taken I-Y1.. !>. ls'.7. after 

 a few brief protests, among them the warning of 

 Mr. Mahany. k: 



Tl.i- Boose adopted the preceding 

 report (which was afterward nonconi-iirred in ly 

 the Senate, notwithstanding the fact that t ; 

 port, as submitted, tore asunder families, sepn 

 DttSbandl and wives, parents and children. And 

 now we find that tin- i: liich inv! 



sweeping change in the immigration laws of the 

 I'nited State... jx jo be ru-hed through thi- llu-e 

 under a motion for the previous (jiie-tion. which 

 choke- off adequate debate and prevents the 

 nent* of thi- legislation from pointing out in detail 

 its manifold faults and absurd 



"The bill as now framed fulfill* practically 

 of the conditions for which its framers prof. 

 have labored. With a single exception it do. 

 exclude any one whom the great body of American 

 citizens desire to exclude. There is unquestionably 



