Mr. Chairman. it must be patent to everybody that it is the ignorant. those who cal not read and write. and. therefore. who know nothing about the ways of the world and the wiles of tie dishonest people who would make use of them for profit. who become the victims of these conspiracies and these frauds. and so. I say. this legislation will not only lie beneficial to the country in weeding out at least some of those who will becoine undesirable citizens. but it will be a great benefit to. by preventing the coming here of. the ignorant immigrant.i when by reason of his ignorance he is unable to protect himself fromt the dishonesty and chicanery that he finds here among his own countrynmen who are engaged in the business of boatage or P eonage. a thing which the immigration authorities have fountd it hard to prove even when they know it exists. It has been sought to show on this floor that this legislation is championed by only one side of this House. I believe this (Iuestioi is too big to be a partisan question. and I beg to state tihat the Republican Party has gone on record for years in favor (if this legislation. I read front the platform of the itepublican Party for the year 1900: For ic protection of tte equality of our American citizenshi p iand of tie wages of our workingmen against tte fatal eomvetition of owpriced labor. we demrand that he immigralion laws be thorouglity enforced and so extended as to exclude trorn entrance into tile United States those who can neither read nor write.
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Ignorant immigrants are easily victimized and become undesirable citizens.