The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23

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+ progressive, prosperous, and educate
7 states in the Union and in the state
J outside those regions Is to be foun
the largest percentage of illiteracy-
white and black-in this Republic
May ! ask without ofrense one ques
ton about this bugaboo OF illiteracy
Is the alien illiteracy at our port
of entry dangerous and the native 4
literacy innocuous? Will not tina
question bring to you men OF reasor
the reflection that we are placing to-
high a value on letters and expectin,
too much from literacy? Will no
your own conscience and experience,
tell you that literacy has little to d,
with the virtue and intelligence Of
all good citizenship?
May l say to some OF my good
friends on this side of the House
that you seem to forget that only
the other day your ancestors were
alien, the sons Of England, France,
Ire and, Italy, Scotland, Poland, Ger
many, Russia and other lands; and
though that stream Of fresh and re-
vivifying blood has ceased to flow
into the South 1t still continues to.
renew the energies and courage Of
the North as ever. You know why II
was DETECTED from the South; It
would not seek competition with
slave labor, for these aliens repre-
sented the most adventurous and
courageous sons of Europe; and as
slavery ceased the alien stream it'll
refused to change its course.
There is a singular and inexplic-
able prejudice in the South against
the immigrant, presumably be
cause you do not get him and do
not know him; yet the fact remains
that his energy, courage, fidelity, and
brains have made the regions where.
In he has cast his fortune blossom
like the rose. He has come by the
millions into the North. Wherever
he has gone schools have sprung up;
industries have flourished; trade has
increased; wealth has multiplied;
prosperity has bloomed; and patriot.
sm, peace, law, order, intelligence,
and happiness follow in his foot
steps.
An, Mr.. Speaker, what We need 70
10 in considering this question is to
stop and think and place our fingers
On the vital and crucial spots In his.
DRY and learn the story they tell
IS.
The Divine Nazarene chose His an
'stoiic twelve from the lowest class.
s OF Palestine; and yet these mem
most OF them when called by the Sa-
ior' iliterate - accomplished the
'reatest revolution this earth has
cen.
when Greece and Rome, flied with
redolent Of letters, and ,
espising the human foundation stone
all society. rotted and persisted,
harlemagne. guiltless of letters, re-
iade Europe. William the Norman,
no transformed savage Saxon Eng ,
nd into country In touch with Eur.
pean civilization, could neither read
Or write. When Raleigh sought to !,
'und a colony at jamestown with .
'ntlemen OF letters and leisure. II y
lded In disaster; and Virginia be-
me a possibility only when the .
rong and courageous il.lterates OF =
lgland come with ak and pillow to
their work. George Washington i,
ID only an ordinary common school :,
aiming; but which of his men of let. =
rs. his men OF college training and -
cial polish could match him in the .,
sdom, foresight, patience, skill and 9,
. qualities that gave him success .,
d brought him immortality?
Andrew Jackson was the son of an >,
terate Irish emigrant, and himself =,
man OF meager education; but who :,
u say that 1t was Jackson's literacy .,
It Won New Orleans and gave Am =
ca two of It's most notable admin. n,
rations? Kings Mountain and the %
lgs were beaten by the splendid H.
rates OF the Alleghenies; II was h.
se same Irish illiterates who won A,
West and gave us such splendid n,
as Kentucky. Daniel 4,
one and Sam Houston, pioneers
empire builders, were OF this !,
ed OF illlterates. and the school,
racy and the schoolmaster fellow
In their trail i.
We have grown fat and foolish in ,r,
progress; We forget our origins; va
imagine that the eternal verities M
change and that the letters and
Ipts that man has mada have by