Chairman. I am in favor of this bill. I have always supported in this House a bill restricting immigration. The Republican Party in its platform in 1806 declared in favor of the restriction of inmnigration and the imposition of an educational test to the effect that an alien should be able to read and write before being admitted to this country. The Republican platform in that day went a great deal farther than this bill does. This bill provides only that an alien shall be able to read 30 to 40 words in the English language or some other language. but the platform 20 years ago stated that he should not only read. but read au write. which is twice as burdensome a restriction as imposed in this bill. and that was declared at a time when the immigration into this country was only onethird as great as it has been during the last decade prior to the present war.
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