I- rise to express my approval of the message of our President on this bill. and I hope that this Congress will stand with him today. What I can not understand about the attitude of a majority of the. Members of this House. who up to the present time have insisted upon the passage of this bill with the literacy test. is that they seem to make the fundamental blunder of forgetting that character. which Is the only test that an Immigrant ought to be obliged to meet. is not necessarily secured by education. but. as I have said in this Chamber on another occasion. if a man naturally bright has immoral tendencies the education which he has may. by the very fact. be used for the purpor. of training these tendencies to the detriment of the community in which he is going to live. We have a great publicschool system in this country.- America is called the melting pot. and our own Emerson has called it only another name for opportunity. If .e inhabitant of a foreign land. prompted by the inspiration to improve his condition. turns his eyes longingly to America. are we going to deny him entrance simply on the ground that he is unable to read and write?
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