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Show A GOOD VETO. We are glad that President Taft vetoed the new immigration bill on the score of the clause which would keep out people who cannot read and write. Those immigrants are not the onea who make i trouble. Then we believe that if tested the courta would declare the clause illegal on the broad ground that an honest man a man never convicted con-victed of wronpdoinr haa a right to go any-where any-where that he may please to go on this old earth, and that while a nation may discriminate against a race, it has no power to discriminate against an individual of a race on the score that he ia unlearned. As the New York Bun aaya: If Thomss Ljacoln, Abraham's father, had kap-penad kap-penad to he born abroad, snd tha proposed tramifTatioa test bad been in fore in his voting maahood, he sonldn 't have not h the ' ' guarded gatss. " |