Though not of the poorest classfor these can not pay the cost of passageit is admitted that most of them are poor. but pray since when was it a crime to be poor? If poverty were a crime. I was born a criminal and have never been pardoned or paroled from the consequences of it. The percentage of illiteracy today is very high among the mountaineers of western North Carolina. eastern Tennessee. and eastern Kentucky. much higher. in fact. than it is in the cities of the East. which are supposed to be flooded with these illiterate immigrants. Would you argue that these mountain people are undesirable citizens on that account? Illiterate. many of them are. but ignorant. no.
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