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Show A Good Measure HTHE bill denying people who cannot read or A write admittance into the United States will, we presume, become a law soon. Tho reason given is that such people are undesirable additions to our population. One good . way to judge some things is to push them to the limit and see where they lead to. Of course if such immigrants would be undesirable, then those who canot read and write, who are already here, should be deported. Would that help our country materially? We published a few weeks ago the story of a woman who opened a free night school in the mountains of eastern Kentucky for adults, who, when young, were denied schooling. The response was something most touching. Old men and women came. The rigors of the elements counted for nothing with them. They came on foot through the cold; they waded swollen streams, and the reasons some of them gave were pitiable. An old lady wanted to be able to read the letters of an absent son and to be able to wr'te to him. Business men wanted to be able to keep their accounts; the lnajority wanted to be able to read their bibles. It is not those who cannot read and write who make trouble, but those who, with educations, educa-tions, misuse their gifts. We hope President Wilson will imitate ex-President Taft and kill the measure. |