Why this enthusiastic favorable response? Because the people of the United States ask to be one people. a homogeneous people. because. while they have welcomed immigrants. they have wished those immigrants to be part and parcel of their country. they have wished them to have the broadest opportunities to develop into the best American citizens possible. and they are conscious in every locality where there are groups of those who can not speak English that it is a handicap to progress and a menace. I feel it intensely myself. We have built our great country by devotion to its institutions. Unless checked in some way. there will be quite an immigration in the next few years to tile United States. I supported the literacy test in the inmmigration bill passed a couple of years ago. I believe that we ought to start at xonce to require everyone who comes here to stay or comes here to engage in local occupation. other than the mere representation of a foreign business. to learn English. M...
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