He is a very prominent. active. and brilliant member of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. and I think has quite often expressed the view that people ought not to he naturalized very iliberally. I have been on the other side of that question. and I would like to know whether or not these gentlemen who oppose naturalizing persons who come over here and have a real citizenship of the United States in the United States are anxious to naturalize people of Porto Rico In Porto Rico not in the United States? Mr. Chairman. it is true that I believe in a stricter qualification for naturalization than we have adopted. I was on the subcommittee and had much to do with framing the new naturalization law. admitted by all to be the best ever enacted in this country. But it does not go far enough. I then insisted that no alien should be naturalized until lie had learned to read the English language. My son and the sons of my constituents have to be 21 years old before they are invested with full citizenship. and yet the dago can be bore for five years and be eligible to naike the laws under which our wives and daughters have to live. While I believe in a rigid test for citizenship.
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Generalization about 'dago' citizens.