Let us wait and see whiether they do come in after thl war is over. There may not be inny to come at all. Another proposition that I want to submit about the literacy test is this: Will not a man who is unable to read or write some foreign language sooner learn to read and write our language than the man who can read some foreign language? The man who comes here knowing how to read some language foreign to our own will not need to read our language to inform himself of current events. He will read the newspapers of his own language to inform himself. While the man who comes here unable to read will of necessity sooner learn to read our language. "Necessity is the mother of invention." Necessity will lead the illiterate immigrant to learn the English language. On this proposition let me quote what Judge Goodwin and Hon. Bourke Cockran told the committee. Judge Goodwin said: I do not think that literacy on the part of the immigrants necessarily leads to an early knowledge of the English language. I rather think that the contrary Is true. He Is more content to settle down to his own language. his own customs. and his own newspapers if he has a knowledge of a foreign language.
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