Their laws are published In both languages. They have interpreters in the courts. not only as we oftentimes have them in other -places to interpret the testimony of witnesses. but to interpret the arguments of the lawyers. to interpret the charge of the court. and they even have interpreters to go into the grand jury and petitjury rooms to interpret among the jurymena thing unheard of in any other portion of this country. Now. those Mexicansand I am not finding fault with them because of it. but merely refer to the facthave not pursued the course that the large number of immigrants into our Western States have pursued. In the great Northwest In which I have my homeand I may say it has been my lot to be one of the pioneers In two of our great Western States. the State of the Senator from Wisconsin and the State which I in part representin those States it is the aim and ambition of our foreign population to learn the English language as rapidly as possible. to become Americanized. and their children in the course of a generation become so perfect In the English language and in American ways that if it were not for their German or Scandinavian names you would never know that their ancestors came from a foreign country. The spirit of progress has prevailed there.
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