The criminal is a violator of law. and we have a natural right to exclude all such from coming to our shores. That has been the policy of our Government from its foundation until the present time. Now. sir. it seems that the civilservice idea has taken such a hold upon the American people that we are extending it to the immigration of foreigners coming to this country. and we are. I imagine. to establish a civilservice commission to try these people so as to determine whether they can read and write. and whether they understand the Ten Commandments in the Bible or the ten commandments in the Constitution which were referred to by the Senator from Alabama . I remember some years ago a distinguished citizen of the State of Ohio was telling me about some Irishmen who sought naturalization in one of the courts of Cincinnati. One of the judges told the leading Irishman who had his fellowcountrymen in charge to take them out. to read to them the Constitution of the United States. to explain it to them. and see whether or not they understood it. and then to come back and report in court after he had performed this duty. He took them out and read the Constitution to them from beginning to end. explained it to them. and brought them back into court.
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