NATIONAL    LIBERAL    LMMIGRATJOX

LEAGUE '

Resolutions  adopted  at  the  Annual  Convention  of  the  National
Association   of  Manufacturers  May   19-21,    1919

Whereas  it  was  proposed  by  the  Committee  on  Immigration
of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  65th  Congress  to  sub-
stantially prohibit  immigration  to  the  United  States  for  a  period
of  3^ears  and  such  proposal  is  likely  to  bfe  renewed  in  the  same
terms,  and

Whereas  the  information  is  not  now  available  upon  which  to
fairly  determine  whether  the  United  States  is  likeh-  to  suffer  an
outflow  or  inflow  from  its  population,  but  circumstantial  evidence
at  hand  strongl}-  indicates  the  former  is  likely  to  occur  and  that
a  variety  of  causes  ma}'^  induce  a  severe  drain  amongst  many  ele-
ments of  our  foreign  born  population,

Therefore  be  it  resolved  that  the  National  Association  of
Manufacturers  in  Convention  assembled  declares  its  belief  that
public  interest  requires  that  the  Congress  should  consider  the
formulation  of  a  just  and  socially  sound  immigration  policy
which,  without  denying  admission  to  those  whose  presence  is
politically  and  economically  desirable,  will  reject  the  diseased,
the  criminal,  those  likely  to  become  dependent,  or  who  by  ex-
pressed belief  or  racial  or  national  predisposition,  are  unlikeh'  to
be,  or  incapable  of  becoming  qualified  for  citizenship;  that  any
person,  foreign  or  native  born,  who  advocates  or  teaches  the
overthrow  of  this  form  of  government  b}'  force  or  physical  re-

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sistance  to  its  lawful  authority  should  upon  accusation  and  con-
viction upon  such  charge,  forfeit  his  citizenship,  or  if  an  alien,  be
deported  to  the  country  whence  he  came,  and  subject  to  such
restrictions  the  United  States  invites  to  its  shores,  as  ever,  the
strong,  the  honest,  the  clean  in  mind  who  have  faith  in  its  in-
stitutions, adhere  to  them,  and  who  desire  to  enjoy  the  privilege
of  its  citizenship.
