I do not think there is anything that gives greater pride than to see inl your city the great ranks of foreigners waiting on tihe morning when tlhe schools are to be opened to see whether their children are going to get in the schools and not 1e excluded. but they would not say that education is not a real value. as we have so often heard since this debate has opened. On the other hand. they want their children to learn to read. They would not urge that that is an argument for illiteracy. nor that our people should repudiate the value of education here. This . ummation of reasons must he placed upon a legislative desire to insure a higher citizenship. The literacy test has been and is now indignantly attacked on many grounds. Those who favor it are stigmatized as narrow. bigoted. pharisaical. mid as nativists with an old "knownothing" ilavor. These attacks should not be interpreted too seriously.
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