If you will go over into some of our States bordering upon the Hudson River you will find that the persons composing those dangerous organizations against which we have been directing our energies are persons we permitted to come in here under the educational test. So it is not sufficient. it affords no guaranty to apply an educational test to those people. and we do not want to rest on fancied security of that kind. The benefit that this country derives. if it derives any. from immigration is in the second generation. not from that which comes over. That is merely the seed that rots in the ground. The racial influence that we afterwards obtain is front the seeond generation trained in our public schools. Why. there is a perfect mania. a frenzy almost. among the immigrants to get their children into the public schools. I have been watching it with some care for years. The first thing they want to do is to get their children into the schools. whether they themselves are *ducated or not. The publicschool system has been the greatest of all attractions in the drawing of immigration to this country. I do not believe it is good form to mention these various races of people specifically any more than is necessary for in intelligent discussion of this matter. but take the people of the Jewish race who come from Poland and Russia and that section of the world. They are perhaps as clamorous. if not more clamorous. than any other race of immigrants for the advantages of public schools for their children. I bad occasion last fall to be in one of the States lying on the Great Lakes. and I found there people who had only just recently come to this country discussing and clamoring for the opportunity to. have the " home language." as they called it. taught at the same time and together with the language of the American public schools. I talked with. one of them about it.
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