Of these. thir. teen or fourteen thousand are foreigners. How long they have been in Massachusetts the tables do not show. The laws of the United States require that they should be five years in the country before they can be naturalized and the laws of Massachusetts require aresidence of one year in iassachusetts after the acquisition of citizenship. If they have resided in Massachusetts one year with the knowledge that at the end of that year they could vote in Massachusetts if they would only learn to read and write and Massachusetts says you may have the opportunity for nothing. and they say "rather than avail ourselves of these privileges we will abandon and give over the franchise of voting." I for onethe Senator may look upon it differentlydo not understand that the State of Massachusetts deprives such a man of the right of voting. I understand that the man deprives himself of it.
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