The gentleman has stated that if he had his way in the making of our innigration laws anarchists would not be excluded from being admitted to this country to preach their doctrines. I .. It is well known that the gentleman from Massachusetts is one of the warmest and most enthusiastic advocates of the literacy test in this bill. Upon the statements made by the gentleman it appears that the gentleman desires to exclude. merely and solely because the alien has not had the opportunity to learn to read a few words of some language. the strong. healthy. honest alien. who desires to come into this country. wlo is willing and anxious to comply with the laws of our lanl. and whose highest longing and ambition is to make a permanent honle for himself and- those -dear to him. in this great Republic. and under our institutions of government. and wishes to permit to come into this country a class of aliens who. knowing how to read. are opposed to our form of government. and whose every moment of time here will be spent in advocating and working for the. complete destruction of our Government and all its splendid free institutions. I believe the amendment to strike out this Clause should not be agreed to by the committee. An alien who comes here to advocate and to teach unlawful destruction of property should not be admitted to citizenship ind should not be permitted to enter or to remain in this country. Such clearly are the kind and character of innigrants who should be given no place among our citizenship. We need no immigrants of that kind. I trust the amendment will not be adopted.
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