I want to ask you gentlemen who are opposed to this bill if you think it would be right. in view of all this. to permit 2.000.000. 1.000.000. or a half a million of full grown men and women. intellectually as dark as night. incapable of reading a word in their native tongue. to come to this country. associate with our children and our people? Will you dare tell me such would not debase the intellectual standard of our people? Fifth. Unrestricted immigration lowers the standard of patriotism in our country. In considering this phase of the subject let us forget for a moment all other effects which it produces. for they are as nothing compared to this. Labor may be considered a disgrace. wages reduced to a minimum. our schoolhouses and colleges may become inhabited by owls. yet nationally we may live as long as we respect our Constitution and enforce our laws and the fires of patriotism continue to burn.
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Immigrants are intellectually dark and incapable of reading, which will debase the intellectual standard of the country and lower patriotism.