Mr. President. I say the information we are likely to get. if this resolution passes. if this eminent authority has not misrepresented conditions at Lawrence. will not only be of great benefit to us in fixing the rate of duty th at ought to be imposed upon wool and woolen goods. when we come to act upon that schedule of the tariff. but it will be exceedingly valuable to us in the consideration of the immigration bill that is now pending before Congress. While the committee have stricken out the literacy test. it is proposed to offer an amendment imposing that literacy test. and if the information given by this eminent writer and authority. who has given the last two or three years of his life chiefly to investigation of these subjects is true. then we have at Lawrence. Mass...the best and the most cogent reason why there ought to be some further restriction of immigration and why that restriction ought to include the literacy test. because in those mills are employed chiefly Immigrants of those races that are the least educated and that constitute largely the illiterate element which is now crowding out of this industry our native laborer. I hope the resolution as amended by the Senator from Texas will pass.
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Immigrants are described as 'the least educated' and 'the illiterate element' who are 'crowding out of this industry our native laborer'.