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Show TUFT TRIBUTE TO JWISHPATR!OTS Washington, Feb. 28. In replying to a delegation from the American Association of Foreign Ijtngung' newspapers, who called at the White House to protest against certain Immigration Im-migration bills pending In congress President Tnft tod.iy paid a high tnl uto to the Jews who had come ' Amerlla and become Jmbued with thi true spirit of patriotism. "The question of limiting immigration." immigra-tion." said the president, "In surh a way at to shut out the undesirable of Europe, is a question which has addressed ad-dressed Itself to congress In the past. They rejected for I was present in congress when It wag done the educational edu-cational limitation otj the ground that It did not shut out those whom we most desire to shut out, and that tint anarchist a man who comes hero no loyalty to the new government Is the man who could easily pass a mental men-tal examination. "Now, all I want to say about this, because I cannot commit mypelf to any particular form of legislation. Is that In 6o far as I am ionlesned. I Bhall sign no Mil wl'hout giving you gentlemen a full opportunity to bo beard It Is possible that I shall differ dif-fer with you, but I think that whero a hearing is given a safer conclusion Is likely to be reached. "In going about this country 13,000 rollos, as I did last year, tbe thing which Impressed me more than anything any-thing else was the fact that the process pro-cess through which we had gone, pf welcoming Immigrants from every where and mixing them and amalgamating amalgam-ating them with our population had produced a distinct type of American, as dlst'ngulshed from any other people peo-ple which make up that type, and therefore, were we to Impose unjust burdens and stop Immigration, we should go back on what, up to this time, has made us a great people. ."I only want to say one word more. I visited -the oast slde-in New York' about two years ago. I was 'strongly Impressed with the fact that tbo Jewish population there had recognized recog-nized the opportunity this country offers them and had appreciated to the fullest extent tho benefits that this country had conferred, and there Is no part of the country In which tho real true spirit of patriotism prevails pre-vails more deeply than there. "That threw a somewhat new light on my general view of tho Immigration Immigra-tion laws and how they ought to be enforced." |