That is particularly true of the city of New York. which I have the honor to represent here in part. We furnish the evening schoo!s. and those schools are patronized almost entirely by foreigners whose ages range from 16 to 60. I have visited them frequently as an official. and have found that 95 per cent of the pupils were composed of foreign immigrants desirons of learning how to read and write. In fact. that is one of the purposes of these evening schools. and they are furnished in as large a number as is found necessary. and the immigrants are thereby securing an education to fit themselves for citizenship. and I think this illiteracy test would not apply nearly so closely to the foreigners. to those who have immigrated here from all parts of Europe. as to .those of native Iirth. The gentleman from Pennsylvania. like myself. opposed the literacy test in the recent immigration bill principally for this reason. believing it unnecessary and not to the best interests of the country.
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