President. I ask your attention for a moment to the character of the arguments that are being advanced here In favor of the bill. for I think you will agree with me that where a policy unbroken since the establishment of the country. whose benefits nobody here questions. is sought to :be reversed the affirmative lies with the proponents of the measure. I have followed very carefully everything that has been said here. and I can find not a single evil that -has actually occurred to this country which -is charged against the immigration. The most vehement of the orators on the other side. and the most eloquent. anticipate dangers from it. but none has pointed to a single evil consequence yet. For I take it that the distinguished .scientist in lunacy who told us about the spread of insanity :throughout the world does not charge that to immigration. But even if he did. a literacy itest would be no particular measure by which we could determine whether a man was either crazy or approaching :unacy. . I take It that may be considered negligible. -Now I am repeating that we must consider the measure solely from the point of view of its influence upon this country. 1 want also to state that the proponents and the opponents of this bill have no issue as to the precautions which should he taken against the exclusion of .the undesirable. that is to say. of -the vicious -of the Incapable. or ot the diseased.
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