I wantno men to come here to make a mere experiment of us. I wish every man to be an honest man. a sound man. and to come here with the firm desire to take upon himself the obligations of citizenship. No other class of immigrants are desirable. It is to prevent any other class of immigrants that we are endeavoring to impose restrictions upon immigration. The man who comes here to live ought to know. and he does know before he comes here. what his intentions are. that they are to make a home here. and I will welcome every decent man who comes with that intention. And ifhe comes with that intention to live among us. then as an honest man he ought to take upon himself the obligationsof citizenship. and the first step toward that. the first process of his education. is not the formation of the intention. but it is the declaration of the intention which he formed before he came to this country at all.
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