Imagine. if you please. any State in the Union peopled with a mass of ignorance so dense and universal as exists in Puerto Rico. Reverse the situation in any of the great States of the Union and place there a population 85 or 90 per cent of whom are unable to read. and the picture would appall the most casual thinker in this House. With all the illiteracy brought here by immigration. we have such a vast preponderance of intelligence among our people that selfgovernment is safe and secure. But reverse the figures and anarchy and misgovernment would certainly follow. The President has. remitted to this Congress the task of fixing the status of the people and the form of the government in Puerto Rico.
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Immigrants bring illiteracy and threaten self-government.