If you will read the able editorial in the WashingtonPost. it points to the fact that our educational systemthe system of public schoolsshould be extended over that kind of population and embody it in our American citizenship. Go and build the schoolhouses. open the doors of the schoolhouses. make the necessary legislation. if necessary. compulsory. and in one generation the children of the Italian. of the Pole. of the Slav. or whatever kindred race will be an intelligent and useful American citizen. There is no objection to admitting that class of immigration. Why. our laborers and labor unions and labor organizations do not object so much to the people who will come here and do manual labor as they do to the artisans. to the men who can read and write and who will enter into active competition with them in the factories. That is the class of laborers against whom they inveighthe artisan who can read and write.
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