Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-01-28
Pass Wadsworth.Perlman Bill

Well, now, the only decent thing 10
do Is 10 pass the Wadsworth-Perlman n
bill | say 10 you, We ought TO ad-
dress n letter or telegram 10 every
member Of The American Congress in
both Houses, demanding, Insisting. If
you please. that the members of the
Congress vote for this measure. Why
Because II is decent, because it Is hu.
name, because il aims 10 repair some
of the damage.
Nothing can ever repair all of the
damage wrought by the Quota Law of
1924. Ladies and gentlemen. my fellow
Americans, | have seen some of that
damage for myself not only in Amer
lea have seen immigrant groups in
England, 1 was moved 10 tears when.
in July of last year, | went TO Easley,
near Southampton, 10 meet with these
women and children. some of them who
have waited there for more than two
years for admission to America. under
the operation Of the Quota Law
What the Quota Does
wasn't very cheerful just at that
time. because things had come cut OF
America which made me rather nm
happy. But ! tell you that my faith.
my passion ms an American was forti-
fed and sustained when l met with
those men and women. And | tried
To dissnade them from thinking of
Americn. i told them they would
nave to wait another year, perhaps two
years. perhaps three years. And said.
Go back to your homes, go back to
Poland. go back to Roumania. go back
10 Russia. 90 back wherever you can.
because IL may he that You can never
gain admittance to Amcricca." And
with eyes cleaning with tears. these
men and women said. I'VE will wait
and wait and wait, hut we want to go
to America as some Congress-
Ian dared to imply ana to insinuate.
because economic furtherance. because
economic well being is TO he found in
America, but because these sons and
daughters of the House OF Israel have
caught CLEAN of the glory of Ameri-
can freedom and American justice.
They will wait and wait and wait but
they want 10 come to America. They
want to find their way into the land
of opportunity.
Let Us Reunite Families
The least that we can do, as a mat
ter of decency and humnneness-let us
Ircunite families, whether the families
of citizens or of declarants who would
be citizens. These men and women
fortified my own faith in America
They made me come back 10 America
with feeling that / could do nothing
less for America than, whenever op-
portunity offers, such as offers tonight,
10 speak out and speak up as man
against any legislation which shuts
doors, which keeps doors tightly shut,
which debars would-be Americans from
the opportunity and the coveted joy of
American residence.
Congress at the Bar.
We accept the Quota Law as fact.
though not as irrepcalable fact; for l
prophesy the day will come when
America will repeal the Quota Law,
when America will come to see that
American distinction and American
, glory and American security lie not in
shutting doors, but in opening them.
Until that better day comes, I turn
to you. my fellow Americans and ! ask
you to make yourselves felt by petition,
| by remonstrance. by demand. that the
Wadsworth-Perlman Bill be. enacted
into law. with the least possible delay
| As Americans, we dare ask no less. As
Americans, the American Congress may
grant no less than this.