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is wrong; and I will not do that for him 
or for any one else.” 
“We must not let our natural sentiment 
for succoring the oppressed and unfor¬ 
tunate of other lands lead us into what 
warped moral and mental attitude of try¬ 
ing to succor them at the expense of pull¬ 
ing down our own people. Laws should 
be enacted to keep out all immigrants 
who do not show that they have the right 
stuff in them to enter into our life on 
terms of decent equality with our own 
citizens. This is indeed first in the in¬ 
terests of the laboring man, but further¬ 
more in the interests of all of us as Ameri¬ 
can citizens; for gentlemen, the bonds 
that unite all good American citizens are 
stronger by far than the differences, 
which I think you accentuate altogether 
too much, between the men who do one 
kind of labor and the men who do another 
kind. As for immigrants, we cannot have 
too many of the right kind; and we 
should have none at all of the wrong 
kind; and they are of the right kind if we 
can be fairly sure that their children and 
grandchildren can meet on terms of 
equality our children and grandchildren, 
so as to try to be decent citizens together, 
and to work together for the uplifting of 
the Republic.” 
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