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Grover Cleveland: In my opinion, it is infinitely more safe to admit a hundred thousand immigrants who, though unable to read and write…

On the recordMarch 1, 1897
In my opinion, it is infinitely more safe to admit a hundred thousand immigrants who, though unable to read and write, seek among us only a home and opportunity to work than to admit one of those unruly agitators and enemies of governmental control who can not only read and write, but delights in arousing by inflammatory speech the illiterate and peacefully inclined to discontent and tumult.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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