The great metropolitan dailies with one accord have registered their opposition to it. and in doing so they reflected the intelligent and best thought of their communities. Their opposition is based on their belief that the ability to read and write. as required in this bill. does not supply satisfactory evidence of desirable citizenship. thht the tests prescribed are not tests of quality or of character or of personal fitness. but they are rather tests of opportunity. They said educational tests should be applied not at the time of entrance of the foreigner but when he submits to an examination for the high privilege of citizenship. and that there had been no lowering of our stand- ards by the immigrants. but that they had lived up to our ideals and had cherished them. The demand in this country for unskilled manual labor to dig trenches. burrow out openings for subways. do heavy work on railways. is greater than the supply. and it has been this way for years. We need the foreigners to do this rough. heavy manual work. and there is so much of it to be done in a great undeveloped country like ours.
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