Speech #660154412

But as injury to one does harm to all. so a large and predominating foreignspeaking population in any State is a menace to every other State of the Union. Americanization to the extent of being able to read and speak English is commendable from every viewpoint. [New York (N. Y.) Globe. Mar. 12.] No more powerful argument for the need of the education In English the lost SmithBankhead bill would have provided for immigrants has been uttered than the Lamar disclosures before the Senate propaganda committee this week. Nearly 16 per cent of the residents of Passaic. on the threshold of New York. know nothing of the language of this country. Upon the credulity of their ignorance anarchism feeds.