All right. I will answer the gentleman with a statement of what happened to me in my recent election. On the occasion of the first speech that I made in The Bronx. a representative of the Junior Order of American "Mechanics. who were organized about the same year as the KnowNothing Party. according to their own literature. which states that they have been fighting all immigration for 60 years. a represeiltative of that organization met me as I came out of the hall and said. " Congressman. there are nine councils of our order in The Bronx. and we have got our eye on you." And if the gentleman will look up the hearings in the Sixtieth Congress. after I was defeated for that Congress. lie will find that the legislative agent of that order in New York State came before the committee in that Congress and rejoiced that I was defeated because of my opposition to the literacy test. And I will say to the gentleman. from my experience. dating back now 12 years on this matter. I have no doubt whatever that a very large part of the pressure behind this activity for the literacy test is because of the fact that the literacy test. as shown by the figures of the gentleman from Massachusetts iill keep out Catholics.
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