They are ready to measure tape in a store. seek a position as a postal clerk. narrow their minds and lives by becoming copyists in an office. brake or fire on a railroad. tend a livery stable. or do anything in preference to becoming a tiller of the soll. How different this from the English taste and English character. In tie district which I have the honor to represent there are today some one hundred and fifty farmers. recent immigrants from England. They are the younger sons of English geutleme for whom their English home offers no opportunity or opening suited to their social standing. their tastes. or their ambitions. Last summer. falling in with an English gentleman on a railroad train who was et route from his hotie in England to visit his son in lowa. our conversation turned upon employment for the young men of this age.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about immigrants preferring certain jobs over farming.