Every dollar the Hindu gets is sent to his native land. with which to pay the traveling expenses to this country of his cousin. and it is very discouraging when we take into consideration they all seem to be cousins. and millions of them anxious to come. As I said before. I am In favor of this immigration bill. Each year from ten hundred thousand to eighteen hundred thousand foreigners come to our shore. Of this number it is estimated 250.000 can neither read nor write in their own language. When we take into consideration this great influx of densely ignorant and undesirable people we are forced to the conclusion that greater restriction is necessary. Many years ago we found it necessary to restrict immigration. so we excluded those whom we considered would be the least desirable to our countryidiots. imbeciles. insane. people afflicted with infectious diseases. and so forthbut we find today we are still getting more foreigners than we can assimilate. regardless of the exclusions we have already made. Thus we are driven to the necessity of excluding some other class. and the question is. "What class shall we exclude? " Really thefe are but two other classes to choose from. the literate and the illiterate. so being forced to make further restrictions we are forced to make a choice between these classes. and in making our choice we have but to decide as wise men which. as a class. would make the most desirable citizens. I submit anyone with as much sense as a vegetable oyster would decide in favor of the class who can read and write in their own language. for the reason such would be more apt to understand our form of government and aid us in our patriotic endeavors to make this country the light of the world.
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Immigrants are densely ignorant and undesirable.