I have not the time to work this subject out. except to point out some teaching of history on that subject. The gentleman from Texas. in the closing remarks he made. pointed to the very suggestion I want to make. If we have any purpose in these exclusion acts. it is to benefit our country. to benefit the aggregation of our population. to protect our country from the dangers that follow the promiscuous immigration of foreigners into our land. Now. history ought to teach us something on this subject. and I presume that the advocates of this measure will say that their object in this proposition is to exclude illiterate people from the United States in the interest of a better condition to us than would follow the promiscuous introduction of illiterate people into the country. I think there is no greater stumbling block in the way of an intelligent study of this question than the idea that educationa literary education. an Education in books and lettersfits a man especially to be a citizen of the United States. and that the absence of that sort of education unfits him.
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Illiterate immigrants are a danger to the country and unfit to be citizens.