Mr. Chairman. I am opposed to the literacy test in this bill. I think the balance of it is good legislation. but the literacy test is sufficiently bad to outweigh all the good in the bill. and for that reason I shall vote against it. The literacy test not only prevents good men and good women from coming to our shores to establish a home. but it absolutely destroys the best part of our liberal policy. the text of which is found in the Constitution of the United States. in the Declaration of Independence. and in our legislation which has heretofore encouraged honest. healthy. sane men and women to find homes in this country. In spite of the fact that this committee and the commission heretofore appointed by this House have recommended the literacy test as one of the best means to arrive at a proper solution of the question as to what kind of immigrants are considered undesirable in this country. I hold in my hand a sheet which has. boiled down in epigrammatic sentences. the consensus of the best thought in the United States of America on this question. It is the thought of educators. of men at the head of educational institutions throughout the length and breadth of this landsectarian and nonsectarian.
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