In a brief argument I stated some objections which I had t6 the bill. The objections are to the general character of the measure. I do not believe in placing an educational qualification upon an immigrant to this country. I think that that qualification is properly imposed in the several States as a qualification upon the franchise. and not as a test of the desirability of an immigrant. I have failed to observe that an illiterate immigrant. a hardworking. industrious man. did not make a good citizen. Under the policy adopted in the several States. notably in Massachusetts. and latterly in a good many of the Southern States. it has been found politic to adopt an educational qualification for the exercise of the elective franchise. With that policy I have no quarrel.
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