Clair it is 13.5: and in Winston it is 12.6. making an average of approximnately 13 per cent illiteratesa larger percentage of illiterateswhitesliving in the district represented by the gentleman from Alabama than the average of the illiterates of all the foreignborn whites in the United States. Now. right in this same connection I challenge the attention of the House to the fact that the percentage of native white illiterates of my State. the State of Minnesota. is onehalf of 1 per cent. showing that they are over 25 times as literate as the citizens of the gentlemans district. Seventyfive per cent of the total population of Minnesota consists either of immigrants or the children of immigrants. and the illiteracy of the entire population of that State is exactly 3 per cent. Why. we would have just as much right in Minnesota to clamor for legislation. if it were constitutional. to restrict the coming into that State of the whites from the district of the gentleman from Alabama as he has to clamor for legislation to restrict immigration from Europe. And I say to him now deliberately. after studying the statistics of his State and the statistics of the States of other gentlemen who are in favor of this bill. which statistics I am prepared to give. that it would be a good thing for the mentally atrophied whites of those States if they haC the advantage of coining into contact with the live. redblooded southern Italian and Sicilians. because it would at least stimulate them to a little activity in their gray matter. I would like to say more on this sub ct. but I can not.
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Generalization about Southern Italians and Sicilians stimulating activity in gray matter.