I regret I can not yield. This literacy test will bar the warmade widows of Europe for whom the housewives of America are now pleading. It will bar these widows and their orphans if they are so unfortunate as to be willing to work without stopping to read. This bill assumes to speak for American patriotism and labor by denying to the unfortunate who would come here to work the same right and the same opportunity that was held out to the oppressed people of the world when our forefathers founded this Republic. It proposes to reverse the order of history and tradition. destroy the universal belief in America as a haven for the oppressed or. for those seeking relief from persecution or political or religious views by writing over our portals the inscription. "All hope abandon. ye who can not read."
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