I call the Senators attention to the fact that on yesterday I attempted to show that the committee. without any discrimination in the application of the bill against the people whom we do admit. if otherwise qualified. applied the test of religion. restricting it solely to that. making it conform to the principle that runs through the whole bill as to restrictions. We did consider that when an Immigrant. not collectively under such a name as Christian or Mohammedan. but the Individual. was being persecuted for the faith that was in him. it was testimony .of the fact in the minds of the committee of the personal fitness of that individual to come to our shores regardless of the literacy test. for the reason that it was an evidence of the moral fiber that withstood the persecution to such an extent for himself that he sought to escape to a country where he could worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. The Senator from Missouri would not apply that racially in such a way as to throw wide the door to let a race come in without regard to the personnel or the individuals who constitute that race? No matter how superior they may be collectively. we have no right to stand here and allow one race. because they were persecuted as a race. to come in indiscriminately while applying a test by which the immigrant does. in a measure. testify to the faith that is in him.
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