Chairnn. One is the labor question and another is the queslion of the effect upon the institutions under which we live. I. an amazed :it my friend from Chicago and my fried from New York . who contend that the dumping of 250.000 illiterate immigrants into the labor markets of the United States from countries where they receive less than onefourth that they receive here would help the labor market into which the 250.000 are dumped. That. Mr. Chairman. is a now process of reasoning. a new deduction of political economy. and startlingly different to anything I have ever heard advocated before. It is just as true. sir. that the dumping of large numbers from the cheaplabor markets of Europe into our labor market would lower our scale of wages as it is that water W\ill seek its level. The other phase of this question relates to the effect which this mass of illiterate immigration will have upon the free institutions of the Government under which we live. I have yet to hear a gentleman contend that the 250.000 illiterate innigrants designed to be excluded by the provisions of this measure are capable of selfgovernment. In most cases they come from countries Where tile people as a whole have demonstrated their inaptitude and in capability for selfgovernment.
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Illiterate immigrants depress wages and are incapable of self-government.