So long as that laborer is a decent Caucasian.. that is all right. but where is the poor white man that wants the dirty Syrian to thus share his home? These poorer constituents are the men. gentlemen. that need our protection. Your pockets are not filled with telegrams from these poor farmers protesting against this legislation. but. gentlemen. while they and their children. and perhaps their wives. are trying to support themselves by honest toil. they are expecting us to protect them. and by the help of their God I intend to try to do it so far as in me lies. [Great applause.] I would not close the doors of our Republic against those who" on account of religious or political persecution are refugees to our shores. whether they can read or not. and hence I most cheerfully supported the amendment of the gentleman from Michigan to let such as these in without applying the educational test. I say to such as they: " Come over and cast your lots in free America. where every man can worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience." But. Mr.
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Generalization about Syrians being dirty.