Mr. Speaker. let us look for a moment at the other side of the picture. We know that a literacy test will bar from our land its most vital necessitystrong. vigorous. simple. Godfearing peasants who come here to find homes and to make the wilderness blossom into fertility. but will your literacy test keep out a single criminal whose record and antecedents we are ignorant of? You will find some. illiterate criminals who have been guilty of crime of sudden passion. of violence. men who united ignorance with illiteracy. but it is everlastingly true that the crimes most injurious to society. most detrimental to business. commerce. find finance are never the work of illiterates. The forger. the conspirator. the crooked promoter. the business defaulter. the blackmailer. the bank thief. the political grafter. and all that class of criminals. .outside of and outnumbering the criminals of passion and violence. are literate.
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Generalization about illiterate immigrants being strong, vigorous, simple, and God-fearing peasants.