I am opposed to this bill. If there was nothing else in it to condemn it. the lst part of the bill. authorizing officers of the Government to go begging around over the country. would condemn it to my mind. It is proposed to allow them to go to some man who has built up a fortune by importing cheap labor from Europe or the owner of some vast enterprise who has brought in shiploads of ignorant immigrants and used their pluper labor in competition with the free labor of this country to make millions. It is proposed to have the officers of the Goverment go around to him soliciting and receiving subscriptions for the eradication of illiteracy in this country. I am opposed to that.
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Immigrants are described as 'ignorant' and 'cheap labor' used to undercut American workers.