I do not state it as a fact that all those who are members or directors in that league are influenced by the steamship companies. neither do I believe. as I have said. that Mr. Woodrow Wilson or any of those gentlemen you name were parties to the mis. information that has been sent out by the Liberal Immigration League. and yet it has been done by that league. In my judgment. some of the Liberal Immigration League who are back of the purpose to deport alien criminals are the steamship companies that want to get pay for the return transportation. I am for it. too. I have advocated that very proposition. but for a very different reason from that of some of those who are sending out that literature. and who are advocating the deportation of alien criminals. As I have said. we could not pass a law. at least without international complications. that would say that no south Italian should come or that no Greek should -come. or that no Syrian should come. But we have the right to. and it seems to me we should. for the protection of our own labor and for the protection of our own civilization. pass a law by which we will demand of them. before they come into this country. at least that they be able to read their own language.
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