That is perhaps owing to the fact that the very best elementI mean by that the intellectually highest elementof the West Indian negroes comes to the United States. rather than the most inferior of them. I know that that percentage of illiteracy does not prevail in the West Indies themselves. where it is higher than 23 per cent. The Senator will find. if he will go further into those figures. if he has them all before him. that since this immigration started in it has increased. and while the number of those who - are coming now is not very large. as I said a moment ago. the increase each semidecade is a considerable percentage.
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