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 resuiting 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. [Tamcs A. B. Scherer.
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