I am in favor of it because it will keep out the ignorant and thriftless. Without energy or industry. I am for it because it will tend to maintain the American policy of protecting our American labor from the competition of an ignorant European and Asiatic cheap labor. I am for it because it will through selection produce a better grade of immigrants. who can be more easily assimilated to American ideals. I am for it because it will not so likely engraft upon American institutions foreign ideals. with all that means to this Nation. I am for it because it will not be so easy to pick up a little Italy or Hungary in Europe and transplant it here to reproduce itself in American soil. We want such immigrants as can comprehend our institutions. as can distinguish between liberty and license. as can appreciate law as against lawlessness. When our Nation reaches a position that it is dominated by a foreignborn people not acclimated to our ideals. then the order has been reversed. instead of our Americanizing them. we have been foreignized by them. a consummation that must be feared in some of our cities already. When we have reached that point we are not doing our duty either to our own citizens or to the immigrant who refuses to be an American after he reaches us. save by record of the courts. The educational test is right. It is demanded by our own people. native as well as foreign born. and I shall therefore vote for it.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are ignorant, thriftless, and transplant foreign ideals.