Mr. Speaker? Congress passes a bill with the avowed purpose of restricting immigration. but instead of honestly closing the gates altogether or Instead of honestly saying "We want only so and so many to come every year." we hypocritically ride the highhorse of education by providing for a literacy test which will in effect shut out all those we want and admit those we do not want. And this is not even the whole extent of the mental dishonesty displayed by the advocates of this legislation. By excluding the illiterate we aim to pose before the civilized world as a people actuated by our regard for education. while in reality we do not care for even educated immigrants. but use the educational test only as a mask to hide our real purpose. which is restriction. And then what? Then comes the climax. for after experts have demonstrated by facts and figures that there Is not a single economical or political reason for such restriction. we stand unmasked as followhg the dictates of those who are actuated by racial prejudice and religious intolerance and are knownothings. pure and simple.
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Generalizing that immigrants are undesirable and that the literacy test is a hypocritical measure to exclude those they don't want.