NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 105 
second consideration. And I want to call your attention to the fact 
that in Harrisburg this session a bill has been presented by a senator, 
no doubt by request, that provides that the public business or official 
business of the State be published in every foreign paper that has 
been in existence three years, in spite of the fact that we are spending 
millions of dollars for education every year, and we tolerate that; 
but I assure you that that bill will never get by first base even, be- 
cause some of us are on the job in Pennsylvania. 
I want to call your attention to the fact—and I said the same 
in Cleveland before our national convention—that there are poli- 
ticians who are in the districts where the foreign groups live and 
are listening to the demands of those groups and organized by them, 
letting in agents of the foreign government who are insisting that 
the customs and ideas be changed. 
I am in favor and the Patriotic Citizens Civic League, which I 
have the honor to be president of, is for maintaining the customs and 
ideas that our forefathers established in this country and which have 
made this country. Now, if we can not get into effect this national 
origins bill at this time, then the solution is to close the ports of im- 
migration for a period of five years, and an experiment in the interest 
of unemployment. 1 want to say to you that I fought for that in 
pur national convention last summer, and in to talking to labor 
groups and many representatives and contractors, they told me that 
there are so many labor-saving devices about to go on the market 
that they are fearful it is going to do away with the employment of 
many men. By way of illustration, a machine is in operation in 
Pittsburgh which is operated by 3 men which takes the place of 
40. You know what happened in the census bureau where 25 people 
do the work of a thousand. In the streets of Philadelphia they are 
paving a square in 24 hours, where it took a week before, and so we 
go on down the line. Mr. Joseph Steel, president of the Steel Con- 
struction Co., one of our prominent contractors, said that in the 
building trade it has got to be met. It is the same way all over the 
sountry. The labor groups in the United States have gone on record 
that the ports of immigration ought to be closed in the interest of 
employment. In Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and other districts 
they can not work the year around, and that surplus labor could 
he transported where seasonal labor is needed; and I am of the opin- 
ion that it would stop the objection and it would be a fair and square 
deal not only to Americans but to every man who comes from some 
other shore, and they could not object to the doors of immigration 
being closed on all ports, and I sincerely hope there are Members of 
the House and the Senate who will bring in such a bill this session. 
[f we do not get it through this session, then President-elect Hoover 
will include that in his call: that that be considered as a thing that 
concerns the welfare of the American people. I want to say to you 
along that line it is a vital question, and it will solve the problem. 
As an illustration, we see in Philadelphia, and we see it in other 
large cities being allowed to go into the hands of foreign born, 
while the American stock, the stock that made America, live out in 
the suburbs, leaving the influence not only of taxes but the influence 
that delegation in the legislative halls of State and Nation to mold