They know nothing of American traditions and institutions. and care less. In large part they do not speak and can not or will not learn our language. They come here filled with all sorts of socialistic. -juarchistic.. and nihilistic ideas. a fact which can not always be proved at the immigratioh station. impatient of all restraints imposed by law. and utterly and supremely indifferent to the welfare of that country In which they propose to linger only long enough to make enough money to support them in comfort elsewhere. Mr. President. I can not help but -feel. I. can not help but believe. and I believe It profoundly. that the gravest danger this country and this system of. government can ever be subJected to is- liable to come from thesepeople who come over. here not as the people to whom my friend. the Senator from Missouri. referred so eloquently today and yesterday. to become a part- and parcel of this country. who are capable of assimilation into our body politic. and whose sons and daughters are fit to intermarry with our sons and daughters. but who come here for the purposes of industrial exploitation. utterly ignorant of the history.. the traditions. the sentiments. and the institutions of this country. and utterly indifferent to them. It seems to me that the pending bill. particularly through the literacy testis calculated to stop the. most vicious. the most dangerous. of -these elements. I have supported it for years in another branch of Congress. I had the privilege of reporting from the Committee on Rules. under a special rule. the very. bill that we are now considering. when it was reported to the other House of Congress.
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Immigrants are filled with socialistic and anarchistic ideas, unwilling to learn the language, and only here to exploit the country.