I say it is idle to contend that it requires the pronouncement of a great party in convention assembled to .determine the sentiment of the American people. The reason of my support of this legislation is the very rcason for which the President says he vetoes the bill. He says 1 the object of such a provisionreferring to the literacy testis restrictive and :not selective. There is not a man in this House who is not in favor of selective restriction and who has not always been in favor of it. There is not a man in -the country who has not been in favor of selective restriction. But that is not the purpose of the bill. It did ..not go before the American people with that purpose. It went before the American people with -the avowed purpose of restriction of foreign immigration into this country. And why? Not because we have not benefited in the past by liberal admission of immigration into the United States. but because our conditions have changed. t Now. the real question that confronts this House today is L the question whether or not. acting on .your responsibility. you will sustain the verdict that you rendered in favor of this bill s but a few weeks ago. The real question that confronts you is the question whether or not you stand first for the American - standard of life. the American standard of living. and the American standard of wage.
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