I have before me an article from the pen of Mr. Francis E. Hamilton. former solicitor to the collector of the port of New York. and a man who had the very best opportunity imaginable to note the effect of immigration. and I find that he says: The immigration act recently passed. but vetoed by President Taft. contained a number of cumi ersome and nonworkable provisions and was also most unjust in Its "literacy test." Legislators should not forget that the public records of the United States prove conclusively that a large percentage of those who were the pioneers of this country. ancestors it may be of the present members of the Society of the Mayflower. the Daughters of the Revolution. and even the Society of the Cincinnati. were men and women who could neither read nor write. who signed deeds and other documents with a cross. but who laid the foundations of this country and its present government. Now. Mr.
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