I have not time. I am addressing myself to what I think is far more important. In my opinion. the matter of the literacy testthat is. the ability to read. and not write. 30 to 40 words of ones native tongue or jargon--is a minor matter and will create no such heartbreaking or distress as some imagine. Neither will it restrict as heavily as I wish it would. but it will do something. and should be enacted into law. The best estimates show that about two or three hundred thousand of the poorest class of immigrants might be stopped. The gates of the United States will be open to nearly all who want to come. Those in faroff lands who know of the free institutions of the United States. and who would like to come to us but who are detained through ignorance and inability to read the simplest words in their language. still will have the great hope that their children or their childrens children may come here and be of us.
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