This bill would keep out many honest men and women. If the mother of the greatest man that ever lived in this country. Abraham Lincoln. was an immigrant applying for admission at Ellis Island today. with this law in force she would be refused admission. and my friend the great educator from Ohio would turn her from the shores that gave Lincoln to this country. He would turn from our shores Joan of Arc. who won the greatest battle for her country. because she could not read or write. Would the gentleman include in the Panama Canal bill a literacy test? Yet the 30.000 men who constructed that great work were mostly foreigners and Illiterates.
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