Weaver] or convict Massachusetts of bad faith in the matter of apportionment for Representatives in Congress and presidential electors. Taking his figures. namely. 134.256. and of that number. ascording to his tables. 86.258 are aliens and therefore not citizens. ow. add to this last the number of pan pre. idiots. criminals. and insane. namely. 9.271. and we have 95.529 disqualified for the above reasons. leaving 38.727 to be otherwise accounted for. Of these 14.691 naturalized citizens and 3.437 natives. or only 18.128. are disqualified for illiteracy. Eighteen thousand one hundred and twentyeight disqualified for illiteracy Now the Senator says that a proportion quite equal to half of the voters in that district is disqualified for illiteracy. Divide the 18.128 between the eleven districts in that State (and there is no reason to suppose there are any more illiterate persons in the sixth than in any other district. not half as many as there are among the poor immigrants that come into Boston and who are otherwise qualified to vote) and it gives to each district but 1.648. Here is an arraignment of Massachusetts because 1.648 men in a district refuse according to her laws to qualify themselves without expense to themselves to be voters. / The Senator read about the condition of the operative children in the manufacturing establishments there because they come there in flocks from the Old World to find better opportunities and better wages and better schools. and everything this side of the other world better in Massachusetts than the places they left. That Massachusetts may not have growing up in her midst an increasing rather than a decreasing population of illiteracy. that Massachusetts may do everything in her power to lessen the number of those who voluntarily abstain from embracing the qualification of the voters.
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