Mr. Speaker. you must remember that a luan who seeks naturalization comes asking for benefit. lie comes asking for privilege. a high privilege. a privilege that is given to him with limitations. limitations that he must have knowledge of. Is it possible that the gentleman proposes to make .ll argument il favor of naturalization for a man who is so densely ignorant of our laws and our customs and our methods that he does not even know tile statute and provisions of the statute that confer upon him this great boon of citizenship? It is not a light matter to confer upon a mlan citizenship of the United States. to dilute. as we often do. our political power in the States by the admission. in very many instances. of improper persons.
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Immigrants seeking naturalization are ignorant of US laws and customs and may dilute political power.