Under the bill which this report finally confirms every man and woman who can not absolutely be excluded upon moral grounds can come in if he or she can read a few words of some languagenot the English language. but any language. Some of these people who could come in under this law are the very people or class of people whose presence here we all protest againstthat is. the disturbers of our public peace. those who undermine the sound basis upon which our governmental structure is organized and upon which the very essence of our civilization is predicated. Such as these can come in . hut perchance when some man who has been the victim of ..n unmerciful and unpardonable persecution seeksto escape and bring his wife and children to this land. which we were wont to boast was the asylun of just such people. he may be barred if lie can not comply with the literacy test here prescribedthe kind of men and women who would go out into our country and take farms and build homes and go into industrial pursuits and pursue them with avidity and with honor and strive to make themselves worthy of our American citizenship vould be shut out. Mr. President.
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Those who can't read are disturbers of public peace, while those who can are hard-working and worthy of citizenship.