The point I was making was not that these are undesirable races. not that they are undesirable as individuals. but that when they come In such vast numbers as to compete against themselves and to live under the conditions I have described. where they are overcrowded. where they are without employment. they become then. under those conditions. an especially dangerous element in our society. Mr. President. having shown that in these overcrowded communities of the industrial States the aliens constituting them. are of the classes that I have indicated. largely males leading single lives. common or unskilled laborers in the main. a large proportion of them without steady employment. all of them living under conditions most undesirable. and a considerable percentage of them coming -from nations where elementary education is sadly neglected. it is apparent that the Immigration Commission were wise when they recommended the reading test as the one mostfeasible method of meeting the situation. -That is the point I wish to emphasize to the Senate. because in this discussion the merits of the literacy test and the purposes hoped to be accomplished through its inauguration have been discussed and considered upon every other ground than the true one.
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