Congressmen
"... our capacity to maintain our cherished institutions stands diluted by a stream of alien blood, with all its inherited misconceptions respecting the relationships of the governing power to the governed..." Due to intense lobbying, both houses of Congress were overwhelmingly in favor of restrictive policies against immigrants. Members of both political parties argued for upholding the ethnic status quo, a distinct American identity, and societal organization.
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Reed, David A, Senator,From Pennsylvania. "AMERICA OF THE MELTING POT COMES TO END." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Apr 27 1924 [4]
"It is of greater concern to us to maintain the institutions of America, to maintain the principles upon which this Government is founded. " A Welsh immigrant himself, Davis was a 'Nordic' supremacist by nature. He described German, British and Scandinavian immigrants as hardworking, productive, easily assimilated 'beavers'. He condemned non-Nordics as undesirable, pestilential 'rats'" |