Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630134762

Va.] Illiteracy is a mere accident that may affect a family in one generation. but be conspicuously absent from succeeding generations. [George Lewis Mackintosh. president Wabash College. Crawfordsville. Ind.] Unquestionably Immigrants who could not measure up to the most rudimentary test of literacy may yet be industrious. honest. and very desirable men. [George S. Davis. LL. D.. president Normal College of the City of New York.] It [the literacy test] would be inadequate and misleading. often resulting in the exclusion of worthy and desirable additions to our population. [John Cavanaugh. C. S. C.. president University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Ind.) I am convinced that the effort to restrict immigration by a literacy test is unAmerican as well as unwise. [James A. B. Scherer.
Keywords matched
immigration literacy test Immigrants

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
CHARLES LOBECK
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NE
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630134762
Paragraph
#2
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