Speech #590120135

On the other hand. the peoples who settled and developed the republics of South America mixed their blood with that of the natives. to a large extent destroyed their own nationality. and the difference between the two Americas is such that it needs no argument to demonstrate that economic and social development must be along racial lines. But. you say. what effect will the educational test have on maintaining the racial characteristics of our people? The statistics show that of the immigration that is now coming into this country from Europe there is no surer or more certain test that we can apply that will admit the Teutonic and Celtic races of northern Europe and at the same time exclude the [beric and Slavic races of southern and eastern Europe than the educational test. unless we should pass a law prohibiting certain races from coming to this country. as we have done In the case of the Chinese. The peoples of northern and western Europe are mostly akin. belonging to the Teutonic and Celtic races. The statistics show that for the year 1904 the illiteracy of the peoples that came to this country was: Scotch. sixtenths of 1 per cent.