Mr. Chairman. I am for this bill. The gentleman from New York stated that it is nonsensical and silly to have this literacy test in it. It seems to me this Burnett immigration bill will keep out annually about 350.000 foreigners. according to the way they were coming here before the war started. If that is so.. every man who wants to hold up the dignity of this country and safeguard our institutions and .properly protect labor in this country ought to be for the bill. We have a hundred million people in the Republic now. Some men seem to think that we ought to let all the foreign elements come in and overpower the original American citizen.
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Foreigners will overpower original American citizens.