Now. gentlemen. if science guards us against individual loss. why should we not employ it to guard us againstnational loss? We demand efficiency in every department except citizenship. upon which the whole fabric of our civilization stands. [Apuluse.] It is no kindness. gentlemen. to thrust upon people duties for which they have no understanding nor means of understanding. Is it unjust that the immigrant should exhibit capacity for citizenship or at least an intelligent desire for it? Today. when books. schools. and newspapers penetrate even darkest Africa. is it unjust that the immigrant. shall show some spark of aspiration. some inclination toward enlightenment? Is it unjust to the boy vho wants to attend high school that he first know the common branches? Is it unjust to the workman who wants employment in a trade that he should have first served an apprenticeship?
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