President. on behalf of the Polish National Alliance. which aggregates about .125.000 members. I concur in everything that has been said against the literacy clause. and in addition. without taking up much time I wouldlike .to lay stress upon one argument that has appealed to me very forcibly and -which I have not heard mentioned here by anyone present. and that is this: That while this literacy clause strikes the man who -can not read -and write. although he :may be healthy and otherwise admissible. the -same law. bars out his children and the childrens children. and thereby dooms them to suffer the conditions from which the parents sought to escape. and it Is therefore legislation against one generation to the prejudice of the descendants of that generation. while the -mentally weak and unfit aliens are barred out tinder other conditions of the law. Their descendants have In no way the same chance as the descendants of healthy immigrants who would be excluded. I have also been asked by another Polish ilelegation which Is here-. and I suppose they will not have the opportunity to .express them1 selvesthe representatives of the Polish American Citizens Leaguei of Pennsylvania. to registertheir protest against this "proposed literacy test. Representative SaB.AT. I have a petition here which I -desire .to present:to you.
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