I vote to postpone the coming of our sorely needed additional subways. If there were no other reason for voting against this amendment. I would not vote on the eve of these great public works to exclude healthy. cleanminded. hardworking. unskilled laborers simply because they can not read. especially when I note from the reports of the Commissioner General of Imsmigration for 1910. 1911. and 1.912 that the increase of population through immigrants is steadily decreasing. having been 817.619 in 1910. 512.085 in 1911. and but 440.000 in 1912. What justification is there for further restriction. as such. in the face of an increased demand for ltbor and a decreasing supply?
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