The clause above. as I pointed out a moment agothe exemp-: tion under the literacy itestwas. in the opinion of the committee. the only one that would be admissible. taking it for granted that the administrative officers would have sufficient.. discernment and take care and pains to investigate and ascertain that the individual seeking admission under the exception .provided for. solely for -religious purposes. was one to whom that exception might be granted. while the politically persecuted should not be denied admission here because he has been convicted. even. Now. the distinction. in a word. Is this: That the man who individually flees his native land because he can not worship God or his god according to the dictates of his own conscience. and because of the faith that Is in him per se. seeks an asylum here. there is established by that very fact a degree of personal morality that might offset any danger accruing from him under the general terms of the literacy test. while in a political sense that could not be true. I would just suggest to the Senator that the men who are a memce to political institutions are generally the men who would not -be subject to the restrictions of the literacy test. The country does not fear the poor Ignorant individual per se. but it does fear the learned one who preys upon the ignorant. Where an educated man Is immoral and conscienceless he has a fertile matrix for the propagation of his iniquity amongst the ignorant. and this bill. even In that case. provides that if he be politically perse~uted and Is otherwise admissible he can come in.
Identified stereotypes
The speaker stereotypes educated immigrants as being more dangerous and immoral than ignorant ones.