But I believe that ih order to encourage these strangers to learn the language of America it is necessary to show that it is worth while. The value must be put into this knowledge. and that can best be done by showing that those who scorn American citizenship shall not be favored above those who do become citizens and learn the language of America. It is for that reason I have introduced this amendment providing for the deportation of all those who escaped military service by the cancellation of their first papers of American citizenship. Of our 105.000.000 souls. 15.000.000 are of foreign birth and 20.000.000 more are of foreign or mixed parentage. Ten per cent of our population can not read the laws which they are presumed to know.
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