I can fancy the broadminded statesmen of that time looking back upon this day with much the same feelings with which we look back upon the antiforeign demonstrations of the earlier days. The ability to read has no correlation with sound bodies. clear intellects. and good morals. and these are the basic requisites of a great people. If a literacy test had been applied in this country from the beginning. how many of us would be here today? Go back through the probate and land records of the last two and a half centuries and see how many of your own ancestors made their cross in lieu of a signature. I was born in the mountainous section of Tennessee.
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