I do not feel justified in taking up a great deal more time in the discussion of this bill. I have always heretofore favored this bill. aid I Ihope that this time. if the President vetoes It. it will be passed in spite of that fact. and Iam one man who stands ready to so vote. It may be that the literacy test will not accomplish all that some of its friends claim for it. but it will do something. I think that this is a critical time in the history of this country. When the war in Europe closes there will be greater necessity. in my judgment. than ever before for the restriction of immigration. This bill will. in some degree atjleast. help to protect our country. and especially will it help to maintain the standard of wages and the standard of living that we have in America. Of course. I think it of vital importance that this legislation be supplemented by tariff legislation to protect American labor. Unrestricted immigration is little worse for the laboring classes of this country than unrestricted importation. To bring foreign cheap labor into this country is not more destructive to our wage system and to the standard of living of the American workingman than is the unrestricted admission into this country of the products of foreign cheap labor. I do not believe the American people will be satisfied until we have accompanied this legislation with a protectivetariff measure.
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