Now. let us admit the real truth of the provisiofns of this act. You raise the illiteracy test.not because you believe It Is a just and fair test. and" while you may. argue upon that basis. your real purpose is to keep out a certain number of people. desirable or undesirable. You say there are too many Immigrants coming from southern Europeand you desire to keep them out. You can not make legislation for immigrants from one country and different legislation for immigrants coming from another country. because ifi one section of -the country there are more illiterates than. there are in the northern sections of Europe. Yet you attempt to accomplish this by keeping out a greater number by your illiteracy test. rather than by really defending American citizenship. by raising that test. Mr.
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Generalizing about immigrants from southern Europe as undesirable.