That very situation arose In the spring of 1906. Yet I saw one of the Republican members of the Committee on Rules act as teller In opposition. and I saw the Speaker of the House pass at the head of the column between the tellers in opposition to the measure of which I speak With the recollection of that scene still fresh in my memory. I rdfuse to be alarmed at the cry of party disloyalty and I await with eagerness a better definition than that which I have Just given you as to what a party question may be. (Loud applause.] The Republican platform he referred to read as follows: For. the -protection of the quality of American citizenship and of wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of lowpriced labor. we demand that the Immigration laws be thoroughly enforced and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write. The Democratic platform of 1908 contained a similar plank. The annual presidential message to which Mr. GARDNER referred was from President Roosevelt. in part as follows: The second object of a proper immigration law ought to be to secure by a careful and not merely perfunctory educational test some intelligent capacity to appreciate American institutions and act sanely as American citizens. Both the educational and economic in a wise immigration law should be designed to protect and elevate the great body politic and social. Here is what the Philadelphia Record (June 26. 1906) had to say about the Cannon standpat betrayal: HOUSE LEADERS THaoTrTLE VOTE ON IMMIGRATIONCANNON CRACKIS WrinP SHARPLYSEAtKER SCURRIs ABOUT AISLES. TIREATENING. CArorINO.
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