The present bill under consideration from the Committee on Foreign Affairs will enable the State Department to effectively control the admission of aliens to the United States for a period of one year after final conclusion of peace. During this period a most solemn duty rests upon Congress to enact legislation for the protection of the American people and for the secuxity of American ideals and American institutions. Our immigration laws should be framed so as to exclude the dangerous element of all classes. The literacy test in the Burnett bill has to a great extent proved effective against the illiterate. but our experience during the war has made it very clear to us that the educated alien may be more dangerous. Leon Trotski. the soviet and anarchist leader in Russia. was a teacher and an editor in this country before the outbreak of the war. Ninety per cent of the I.
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Educated aliens can be more dangerous.