The bar is up against an honest. sober. Industrious workman who seeks the broad and open fields of this country. but the undesirable who can put his name and 20 or 30 words on paper is allowed to land because he possesses the supposed advantage of "literacy." However. the purpose of this ameldment is not to remedy a defect which I see in this bill. but to insure to the United States. as far as possible. that no criminally or physically or mentally unfit person comes to Our shores except that we have exhausted every reasonable precaution to prevent it. which this bill in its present form does not do. It will be no great hardship on the intending immigrant to secure the certificates of character and sanity called for by this amendment. It will do away with the personal element which enters into these examinations. where the provocation is to deny what can not be shown on the spot. and it will tend to lighten the expense of the State and the Nation. who are forced to care for thousands of these unfortunates. allowed to enter because of the fact that at the meneat of their landing an examination did not reveal the tendency or the disease which afterwards developed itself along criminal or physical or mental lines. Much of the report of this honorable committee which places this bill in our hands Is devoted to the report of the commission which has studied this question and which. the committee believes. is an indorsement for this measure.
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