That being the thing that is most deeply impressed upon my mind. I am going to vote for this bill [appilause). and I am also going to vote for this test. I do not think. to say the least. that it is inconsistent for an American citizen who lives in a State that requires educacation by compulsory law. and who lives in a Nation in which most of the States have compulsory education. to require as much of the foreign immigrant as we require of our own individuls. It scems to me that if we require an educational test on the part of our own people and regard the lack of education as sufficiently undesirable so that we make compulsory laws to remove that lck we ought not to be regarded as unwise. unfair. or inhuman when we put the same test upon the immigrant who comes to our shores. If this bill shut out the victims of religious persecution. I would vote against it. but it does not.
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