I am in favor of a test of devotion to home and wife and children. I am in favor of a test of patriotism and loyalty to our institutions. I stand for a test that will exclude immigrants for want of these and not for the want of an equal opportunity in life. Mr. Chairman. while this bill adopts the educational test. it provides. at line 7. page 9. for its suspension for the admission of contract labor to take the place of the man who dares to ask for better working conditions and a living wage. If the educational test is a true test. a true test of merit and manhood. a true test of honesty. a true test of character. a true test of morality. a true test of honest motives and good intentions. a true test of patriotism and loyalty to our institutions. then you are sacrificing all of these upon the altar of commercialism. then you are surrendering all the merits of men for profit. then you are prostituting all the graces of manhood and womanhood for private gain. then you are yielding for money what you deny on conscience. principle. and right. I will go further than the provisions here in the exclusion of immigrants for degeneracy. moral turpitude. and crime. but I refuse to yield inalienable human rights or the principle of equality before the law.
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