To his eternal credit be it said that he braved all these. and from a poor plowboy he -went into the mines as a laborer..then into the schoolroom as a teacher. worked his way through the law department of Vanderbilt University. gained admission to the bar. and soon became recognized as a lawyer. JouiN L. BuRNETT not only rose from obscurity to State renown. but ultimately. through his -vast work as chairman of the Committee on Immigration. his fame spread over the Nation. It is a. striking and a tragic thing that in life his great ambition was to write upon the statute books of the Nation a perfect immigration law and that his fatal illness came upon him while he was delivering a speech on that subject. He fell in the line of his duty. he died bravely in the harness. His work on the great problems of immigration stands as a monument to his memory. The love and the loyalty enshrined in the hearts of his thousands offriends constitute yet another memorial. These shall endure during the years to come.
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