Its result may plunge this country into hostilities. and if thisprovision be adopted these aliens will be free from any obligation to face the bullets which their votes may have provoked. But. Mr. Chairman. the most ludicrous feature of this proposal. conceived in distrust. If not contempt. of the alien. Is that in operation it will result in creating two distinct classes of citizens by elevating the naturalized to a higher plane than the native citizen. Under such a system a vast majority of the aliens admitted to citizenship must speak and know two languages. Everyone not from an Englishspeaking country must be able to speak. read. and write his own language. and besides he must be able to speak and read English.
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Aliens are distrusted and viewed with contempt.