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...literacy test would mean a yearly exclusion of some 350,000 immigrants. This exclusion is justified because, after barring criminal and pauper, it amounts to criminal negligence to admit immigrants of the same rank and intelligence as those which produce these evils...
...rebuttal, the negative repeated the statement often made during the debate, "Where immigration is most, unemployment is least." The literacy test, also, is obviously unfair in that it would bar 300,000 people when only 3,000 should be barred. There is absolutely no connection between the criminal and illiterate elements. Finally, figures and experience show that the southern foreigner can be assimilated, and that he can be educated in our schools so that he is not a drag on the community, which was claimed by the affirmative...
...affirmative maintained that the illiterate foreigner aggravated the social, economic and political problems of our country. The literacy test would go far to cure this, and would not bar out classes, as the negative claimed, but would affect the individual alone. Because of ignorance the immigrant goes to the slum, but leaves it as soon as he becomes more educated. By the literacy test, this would be done away with; wages would be increased; crime would be lessened, and politics improved
...present undesirable feature in immigration cannot be attributed to illiteracy. Since illiteracy is not the cause of bad conditions, this test would be no remedy. The majority of illiterate immigrants have not had the chance to learn, and so this test is neither one of intelligence or of ability to work. Illiterate men as a class are not all undesirable for other reasons. Statistics show that they are neither morally, mentally or physically below the average...
Immigration to the United States should be further restricted, because our present immigration is undesirable and is coming here in too great numbers; over 1,000,000 per year. An illiteracy test, by cutting down the numbers of this present undesirable immigration 300,000 immigrants every year, 1,000 immigrants every day,--immigrants who go to the most congested parts of the large cities of practically all but seven states, where they are cut off from American influences--will alleviate our problem of assimilation...