Some one has w~ll said that probably the most potential force is :represented by agriculture. Yet on this question all. the farmers organizations. the Grange. the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union. having -over 3.000.000 members. and the various labor organizations all over this country are passing resolutions unqualifiedly indorsing this bill. and demanding of Congress that this country of ours be no longer the dumping ground for the illiterate and criminal element that has. through the past 25 years. had such freedom of access to our shores. The Immigration Commissioners. appointed in pursuance to act of Congress in 1907. have given most comprehensive consideration to all phases of this question. Experts have gone into every detail of the problem. One million dollars has -been spent by this commission in this detailed investigation. and 42 volumes of information have been gathered together covering the various questions involved. This commission with practical unanimity recommends the enactment of the literacy test foulnd in this bill. I have discussed the measure largely from an economic standpoint. But a more important phase presents itselfthe perpetuity of our free institutions is involved.
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Immigrants are described as an 'illiterate and criminal element' that is being dumped onto the country's shores.