Governor Gardner suggested many other things in his inaugural addresses, such as:
- “Americanizing America”
- Immigrants must wait until they had lived in America for 21 years, as the native-born American voting age was 21.
- Naturalized citizens could not hold public office.
- Shipping the poor immigrants back to Liverpool.
- Immigrants were stereotyped as alcoholics, so Gardner suggested prohibition of the sale of alcohol.
- Removing the Latin inscription at the speaker’s podium in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (because it was not in English).
- Reading the Protestant King James Bible in public schools.