Speaker. they tell us that we are receiving a blessing in having over 300.000 illiterate aliens land on our shores every 12 months. In this connection let me read a letter from the �prosecuting attorney of Somerset. N. J.. addressed to President Taft on February 8. 1913: My duties as prosecuting attorney of Somerset County. N. J.. have givcn reo an excellent opportunity to check up in one important particular the investigations and conclusions of the Immigration Commission with reference to the illiteracy test. )uring the last two years I have kept a careful record of the last 114 criminal cases that I have prosecuted against aliens. with the following interesting results: Illiterate. Literate. Homicide ......................................................3.
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