The foregoing classification covers a large number of agitators in this country who propose to regenerate mankind. by passing resolutions and who on platforms are celebrated. mostly for the sensations they create amongst audiences wherein the gate money is the inspiration and the text of the address arranged to draw the sensationloving populace. Those gentlemen all are clamoring for a test that shall consist of the. ability or the inability to read something. whether it be in our tongue or somebodys else tongue. The fitness or unfitness of those immigrants who present themselves is to be decided by an interpreter. I had an idea. Mr. President. that these useful gentlemen. who have been reforming everything in the country all the way from Oyster Bay to California. would be perfectly competent themselves to interpret everything that needed interpretation. Still we would have to have some seven or eight tongues constantly employed wherever an immigrant proposed to comeinto our. country. Under this bill upon the honesty or dishonesty. upon the fitness or unfitness. the fairness or unfairness.. of these interpreters would depend the question of whether proposed immigrants should be admitted or excluded. If all the people who are unlettered are ignorant. are now to be excluded. then our ancestors. Mr.
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Generalizing about interpreters and their honesty/dishonesty.