The gentleman from Illinois the other day spoke of the lack of opportunities that aliens have to learn to read. and yet there are in southern Italy 56 per cent of the people over 14 years of age who are so absolutely illiterate that they are unable to read their own language. while only 6 per cent of the people of northern Italy ale unable to read. although opportunities throughout all Italy. in so far as the Government is concerned. are the same. When with the commission on its foreign tour. I asked the Italian commissioner of immigration of Italy. Mr. Rossi. how it was that under the same King. with the same Parliament. with the same laws. that that striking contrast of literacy and illiteracy existed. and he said: "Mr.
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Generalization about illiteracy rates among Southern Italians.