What is true of Michigan is also true of most of the States. This bill will not exclude many. There were 326.270 immigrants who came into this country during the year 1915. 35.449 of whom were illiterates over the age of 14 and who would be affected by the provisions of this bill. while 52.982 were under the age of 14 and would not be affected by it. When the Territory of the Northwest was established. our forefathers had strongly in mind the education of those occupying that Territory. and the ordinance providing for its government contained this provision: Religion. morality. and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind. schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. The people of Michigan So highly regarded that beneficent requirement that it was made a part of its new constitution of 1.908. and it is now embodied as a provision of the basic law of our State.
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