But while this literacy test will admit practically everyone of sound body and sound mind from those countries. yet the law admits a good many worthless subjects at times. Take the . countries of southern Europe. where they have been unfortunate. where they have been oppressed for generations and have not had the opportunity of good government. They hardly know what a government is in the sense that we understand it. Those people come -here with the intention of earning an honest living. Many of them can not read and write. yet the bulk of those people occupy a place here in our labor market that is hard to fill under present conditions. and has been. except those. for instance. who go into the sweatshops of New York.
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