I am no believer in the Illiteracy test. A man may not know one letter from another and still make an honest and useful citizen. Since the war we havebeen getting the bulk of our immigrants from a few countries. but I believe that in the future we shall receive people from nearly all the countries of Europe. I have been given to understand on good authority that we shall soon have considerable immigration from Scandinavia. and I learn from an equally good source that many Dutchmen are preparing to come to America. These Dutchmen are well to do. and many of them are men of considerable means. The reasons for their leaving their country is that so many foreigners from the warstricken countries of central Europe have been settling in Holland that the conditions there have become disagreeable. And then I learn that there are fully S.000.000 people in Germany who are anxious to come to the United States and are only waiting until we sign the peace treaty with Germany. Now. ifthe class of immigrants of whom I have just spoken -come to this country. it will add greatly to the desirability of. our new population." What is the greatest menace in Immigration against which this Government has to guard?" I asked. " Bolshevism and I. W. W.ism." he said. " Just today I obtained information that the I. W. W. was planning for an extended propaganda to be spread among the immigrants as soon as they landed in this country. That is the greatest evil which we have to meet. We are trying to offset this propaganda. by the propaganda of the Y.
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