The difficulty I see on this point. Mr. President. is that when you impose the literacy test it assumes that because a man has some education. because he cal read in some tongueeither our own or some other onethat settles the question. If otherwise under this bill or existing laws he is qualifiedif he is not an anarchist. if he is not opposed to organized government. if he does not believe in killing those who are in authority or destroying those who represent .any reasonable form of government known to civilized manhe is desirable. If the test of literacy is to be further imposed upon the immigrant. it must be with a view of obtaining a litter kind. I thought that over a good deal in some leisure moments while I have been li stening to the accumulated wisdom of the ages that pours itself in rills and torrents aiound this body. and I have not yet heard anything. however much I should iike to change my views. that caused me to do so. I prefer to vote for this bill without the literacy test. I am inclined to think the literacy test now is more popular. outside of a felv large cities in my home State. than the reverse. The easy way would be to flow with the current of this bill. In the long. hot summer nights. when there is not very much doing around the Loop inside of the habitable part of Chicago. where nobody lives but those who do business by nightthe rest of them have gone home--there is a popular place that corresponds to the place designated among the old Greeks for the discussion of public questions.
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