The one who comes here with sufficient knowledge to enlighten himself through the papers published in his own language is not under the same necessity to acquire our language as the man who must learn it If he Is to learn anything of what Is going on around him. Mr. Chairman. I spoke against this bill In the last Congress. and I want to restate what I said then in opposition to this bill. The proposition to prescribe a literacy test to the Immigrant is. to my mind. nothing short of an insult to the immigrant of our earlier history. What is being said of the presentday immigrant was said of the immigrant of the forties. fifties. and seventies. We know all these pilgrims of those times. We are their descendants. and we worship them.
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