If the father can read and write and the mother can not. the children will grow up in ignorance. But if the mother can read and write she teaches her children to read and write in the sanctity of her home. With this requirement as to the women who come here we may be sure that the littlechildren -who -grow up in the famiI lies of the immigrants will learn to read and write. not because! the laws of the -countrycompel education.as the laws of many 6f* the States do. but because through the pride :and the love .and affectionof thealien mothers wh6come here their :children will be ttaught the elements ofeducation. whih wilimake them good men and women.:and which will make not thewoters -of this generation. perhaps. but the voters :of the nextigeneration. whether they be all males or whether they be .males and females alike. intelli.gent and fitto exercise thesuffrage in this.Republicof lours. -Mr. -President. -1 repeat that -this is a very mild bill indeed. be.cause it only requires thatpersons:desiringito come to this country .shall delaycoming longenoughto .haveevery personwho wants to come. eve.-y -member of every family which is coming.-qualified to read and -write the English language. -or the mative language. .I understand that thenationdl conventions of -both political .parties declared.in favorof arestirictionof.-mmigration. If I am wrong. no one3is socompetent tocorrect .me as the present occu.pant -of the ichair i. who is thoroughly. familiar with the :platforms of .all the various political parties -which made .nominations during ithe late .canvass. ! .1am.quite:surethat .the .Republcan tparty. -which -supported Mr. McKinhey.and ione .of the parties that supported Mr. Bryan de-! .clared in emphatic language. .in .the interestof the labor of this! -country andthe interest df theigeneral welfare:of the country. in .favor of the Testriction of immigration. I .hope that the :Senator .from.Missouri will not -be the first itocome into this .Chamberand .set the example.of a violationby:the greatepolitical .parties repro-. sented in this Chamber of the pledges of the.platforms upon which rtheysought to obtain powerover the people.
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