In eastern Europe the people fell heirs. not to the civilization of Rome. but to that of Byzantium. of the Greeks of the lower empire. As all example of what I mean. the idea of patriotismthat is. of devotion to ones countryis Roman. while the idea of devotion to the emperor. the head of the state. is Byzantine. I point out these differences merely as conditions of the problem of assimilation which we have presented to us." But the main point of objection which the President points out in his veto message is tile literacy testthe barring of the door of hope to the poor and unfortunate immigrants who can not read. To this provision I have been opposed because I can not believe it is patriotic or humane for those of us who are already aldmitted to the United States to deny the right to others who want to come. simply because they can not read. One of iy fellow townsmen.
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