S. Bennet. decided that the illiteracy test was the most practical one to impose..- Here are the reasons: Iirst. more people are in favor of this test than are in favor of any other test. Second. the weight of this test happens to fall principally on the less desirable immigration. " Yes." you say. " but we need labor on our farms." That may be true. I do not know. but I notice that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor admits that there is congestion of labor in our cities. although lie says that it exists only in a few cities. As a matter of fact. over a period of years all the evidence tells a tale of great congestion of unskilled labor in our cities. Distribution is the remedy which Secretary Nagel prescribes. I am one of those who totally disbelieve in the possibility of effecting a practical system of distribution of immigrants. For six years we have had a distribution bureau in the Immigration Service. It has amounted to nothing at all. The State of South Carolina tried an experiment. She imported between 700 and 800 immigrants a few years ago. I am informed. Mr. Speaker. that not one single one of those immigrants imported into the State of South Carolina can now be found within the confines of that State. So much for trying to distribute immigration against the will of the immigrant and in defiance of economic laws. If you distribute him where he is not wanted. either economically or socially. he will not stay distributed.
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