After giving the provision of the constitution prescribing the educational qualification for suffrage. the report proceeds: Under it the most learned professors of Europe coming here and taking upon themselves the dnlies and privileges of citizens could not vote unless they were able to road English. The trouble is not about learned professors. Everybody knows that a learned professor coming from abroad is not naturalized until after five years residence. and my observation is that the learned professor understands the English language by that time. Then I read ona: It attracted no attention and has not been enforced by statute until since 1874. when the dominant party in Massachusetts began to fear for their majority. It was adopted in 1857.
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Generalization that learned professors from Europe would not be able to read English.