They who have principally made this trouble are not our citizens. they are the natural outlaws who hang always upon the borders of the Indian country and the cattleherders who have come into the great ranges in the extreme western part of the State from the southwestern border. whose life is nomadic. who reside permanently nowhere. And yet these infamies have been charged up against our whole State. Crimes and acts of lawlessness in other States very many years older than Nebraska. possessing a territorial area in extont perhaps not onethird that embraced within our State limits to guard. with courts everywhere accessible. in populous counties. have been attempted to ba justified by comparison with these outrages to which I have referred. committed by noncitizens hundreds of miles distant from our capital in an unorganized country having a sparse population and contiguous to the great Sioux Indian country which lies along all the northern and a part of the western border of the State. This *ill not do. A State scarcely twelve years old. with a population of four hundred thousand distributed sparsely over soventyfive thousand square. miles of territory. seveneighthd of whom arc engaged in agricultural pursuits. possessing six hundred.churches. three thousand or more district schools at which more than one hundred and twenty thousand children attend. with more than $2.000.000 invested in commonschool houses and school property. a State in which the sentiment of temperance is so strong that a bill to prohibit the sale of all spirituous liquors lacked only one vote of its passage in its last Legislature . a State that gives anywhere from ten thousand to twenty thousaud republican majority. is not the natural abidingplace of lawbreakers and desperadoes.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing that non-citizens are outlaws and criminals.