The Seventeenth Ward Branch of the Socialist party, at itsmeeting of January 19th, made an energetic protest against the passing of the inhuman Burnett-Dillingham bill, which forbids illiterates to enter the United States. If workers are illiterate, it is the fault of their native countries. And America is called the land of the free! What kind of freedom? You Italians! Do you see what treatment your countrymen are receiving? Instead of improving the intellect of its subjects, your government squanders millions in a war on the sands of Tripoli!