Speech #500117755

I hold we have no right to exclude him. But if on the other hand that person belongs to the criminal. or to the pauper. or the diseased or vicious class. we ought to exclude him. We have no room here for that class of immigrants. We have no room for criminals. paupers. diseased. vicious people in all our wide domain. We ought also to exclude people who have no sympathy with us or with our form of government or with our institutions. The very clausd in our statute of naturalization is a guide to us in this respect. Before an alien can become a naturalized citizen he must make it appear to the satisfaction of the court admitting him to citizenship that duringhis residence in the United States "he has behaved as a man of good moral character. is attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same." I would not admit to these shores. if I could apply the test. a single individual who had not capacity enough to understand something of our system of government. and to have an aspiration for the liberty and independence and the dignity which a man may acquire and achieve under our system of government. No anarchists. no communists. nopersons.tfrom wherever they may come. who do not come here imbued with the principles first laid down. in the history of the world. in that glorious Declaration of Independence should be permitted to come. if I could apply the individual test which would keep them away. Then.