When the Fathers planted our country the State of Massachusetts required at a very early date that every 50 families must provide for what we call an open school. and every 100 families must provide for a high school. While it is admitted our commonschool system was not started until the thirties of the last century. Massachusetts provided for general education early. and yet I find that the State that has given Harvard to our countrys history and the first general school system of the country. as well as the man who inaugurated our widely popular commonschool system. as we now know it. is represented very largely lbre on this floor by men who are now opposing the literacy test for those immigrants who come into the country. For. Mr.
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