If the American born must not grow up in ignorance because of the State. then why should the State adliit the ignorant with open arms? Why should there be one standard for the native American and another for the foreigner? I shall vote for the illiteracy test because it will select our immigrants. It will lift the standard of the foreigner. The one who comes to our shores shohld have a distinct purpose. If lie comes to remain for a short time to take back his wages at a lower rate tlmn our own labor. lie does not help American conditions by breaking down our standlard. If lie can not read. lie can not become a citizen. Why should we have a literacy test for citizenship and not for innnigration unless we wish to encourage the coiiing here of the foreigners to remain as a foreigner until lie desires to return? Note the 400.000 foreigners who returned to fight the battle of their rulers. Do we mean to encourage that sort of immigration? If so. why? Let those who favor such immigration contemplate its effect upon our standard of living among those who toil. Members of the House. whatever else we do to maintain our ideals of citizenship. our standards of living. we must not by law permit such an incubus to be fastened upon those who toil. Our purpose here should be to insure advance of these people. not retrogression. While the literacy test. as I said before. is not a conclusive test. it is a step in the right direction. I have consistently stood for a protective tariff. as I said once before. I thoroughly believe in it.
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Foreigners take back wages at a lower rate than our own labor.