Duty comes in there to forbid. the equation is not balaced. This hiII is a part of a certain reactionarypolicy. Make your conditions what you please for immigration and for attaining citizenship. but make them such that the man can overcome them. Do not base them upon the accidents of humanity. If you say that a man shall not come in or shall not become a citizen until he can read andwrite our language. until he can pass an examination upon the Constitution. or until he shall have accumelated a thousand dollars. oJr any one of many qualifications and limitations that easily suggest themselves. you still leave it open to any man in the world to overcome this and come in. but if you say he shall not have this. that. or the other right because he his yellow. or because he is black. or because he was born in a certain place.
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