I desire just now. however. to proceed to another question. The President has -sid " literacy Is not a test of character .but of opportunity." That sentence ought to go -down In history as the tersest statement of a great fact that has been made in many .years-" literacy is not a test of character lbut of opportunity." In support of the proposition to which I have just referred. I want now to compare early and later immigration. I.-challenge attention to facts abundantly sustaining the proposition. I In point of literacy the new Immigration surpasses the old .at the time of the influx of the latter. Twentysix per cent of the German male Immigrants above 16 years of age who came to Pennsylvania In the first half of the eighteenth century could not write their names. i(Barnes. p. 45.)
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