I expect to support this bill. I recognize very fully that the prosperity of the country and its rapid growth and development in times past have depended very largely upon the number and the character of the immilgrants that have come to our shores. From the very beginning of our history to the present time foreign immigrants have been a very valuable element iII our population. I believe that we still need the foreigners. and we probably need a good many of them. but we need the very best that we can get. and it is for tlt reason that I shall support this literacy test. It is aI little bit hard to realize what the figures mean when we are told that a million foreigners have coie to ocr country in one year. or that twelve hundred thousand have come. or the even larger numbers reached in oe or two years. It is hard to know what a million means or to translate it Into the terms of human life and human experience.
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