It is a test according to the conditions under which a man has grown up. It may well be said that a man who grows to manhood in this country. with all the opportunities for education it affords. and Is illiterate. lacks that spirit. that sentiment. and that temperament that will bring him best in larmony with the spirit of our institutions. but to say of the man who has had no opportunity to acquire an education that the lack of that education is evidence of his wanting in those things which would bring him in harmbny with the spirit of our institutions is notaccurate or fair. I am not going to say anything concerning those immigrants who have come to this country. We have grown great under the system that we have pursued. Nor am I going to take the time of the Senate to discuss the people to whom this particular amendment is held out as a hope.
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Illiterate immigrants are described as lacking the spirit and temperament to harmonize with American institutions.