But these illiterates do a class of work that the native Americans will not do. I The American native born ordinarily does not do the hard work of laying railroad ties and rails. of digging trenches. of balancing roadbeds. and work of that character that these illiterates do. You find this same character of immigrants in England. you find them in Germany. you find them in all of the progressive countries of the world. because the natives of those countries do not do that hard. manual. physical work which educated men everywhere refrain from doing. It is your illiterate. your uneducated man. who has to work with his brawn and not with his brain. who is willing to do it. it is he who is your hewer of wood. your drawer of water. and you want to shut the door upon that kind of immigration. I say you could better afford to keep out some of your educated skilled labor than lose the henefit of the brawn and muscle of the illiterate laborer who is content to take that employment which the educated man can not or will not perform. Why. sir. the application of the illiteracy test provided for in this bill will deny 250.000 immigrants the right of admission to our shores every year. It that be what you contemplate. why are you not honest enough to say so? Why hide behind a subterfuge of this kind? Why do you not say right out and out. " We want to close the doors against further immigration. we do not want any more immigrants to come here. because we are opposed to their coming on principle"? But you dare not do that. Oh. no. you cloak yourselves behind the illiteracy test.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that illiterates are the only ones willing to do hard labor.