Buy this book on-line Chandler, Walter M : EXTRACTS FROM SPEECH OF HON. WALTER M. CHANDLER OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH 25, 1916Washington; Government Printing Office, 1924
Punch holes. 8vo. 8 pages. 21 cm. First edition. Protest Against Race Prejudice and Religious Bigotry. The Burnett Immigration Bill. Extracts from Speech of Hon. Walter M. Chandler of New York. “I voted against the Burnett immigration bill during its passage through the sixty-third congress. I shall vote against it again at this time, because it contains an unjust, undemocratic, and un-American provision, the so-called literacy test. ” (pg. 3) . A speech by republican represenative Walter Chandler, denouncing the Burnett immigration bill as race and religious prejudiced; the author specifically details that the bill serves to refuse entrance to south Italians, Hebrews, Slovaks, Magyars, and Poles, and is explicitly anti-catholic and anti-jewish. Walter Chandler, though a protestant, also gave numerous other speeches to the house in his time there, in defense of minorities, against the ku-klux-klan, for the independence of estonia, latvia, and lithuania; and with Julius Kahn, on the Jew as patriot, soldier, citizen, orator, and statesman. Subjects: Government Printing Office. House of Representatives. Anti-racism. Burnett Immigration Bill. Prejudice Against Jews – United States. None on OCLC. Lightly soiled, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (SPEC-39-16) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Chandler, Walter M : EXTRACTS FROM SPEECH OF HON. WALTER M. CHANDLER OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH 25, 1916. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, libri antichi, rare books, out-of-print books and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |