Mr. Chairman. I recall that upon two former occasions in the discussion of the illiteracy clause of the immigration bill the per cent of illiteracy in Kentucky has been referred to by gentlemen opposing the bill with the statement that the illiterete in the mountains of Kentucky were nativeborn citizens. We accept that statement with pride. and wish to add here that they are not only native born. but that they are the pure AngloSaxon blood. and it has been through lack of opportunity and encouragement that they have failed to receive an education and not because they lacked intelligence or ambition. My suggestion that this illiteracy among our people is chargeable to lack of opportunity may seem strange to some gentlemen who come from the cities or the older or more densely populated sections of the country that have had splendid schools within the reach of all for the last century.
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