Chairman. for all the purposes of an educational qualification. if one is to be imposed. it seems to me that it should suffice if the applicant can write in his own language or in the English language. What we want. after all. in our citizens is character. quality. moral worth. and a loyal attachment to the principles of our American Government. Some of our very good patriotic American citizens of foreign birth are men who can not speak the English tongue or who speak and read it so poorly that had they to apply for citizenship under such a clause as fhe Committee on Naturalization proposes they would risk rejection. Yet these men have intelligently read the newspapers. the books. the publications printed in a foreign language. I can call to mind very many good citizens in different cities and towns of this country who have gained their knowledge of current events from the reading of newspapers published in the German. in the French. or some other foreign language.
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