German. French. and Belgian labor as a bid for their patronage in the agricultural market. Rapidly enough. too rapidly. are our public lands being taken up by the foreign immigrant. When we open our ports to foreign manufactures and raise the price of corn and wheat. if it should have that effect temporarily. it would swell the tide of immigration. depopulate our Eastern towns. destroy home markets. and increase the surplus of agricultural products. In a few years at the longest the farmer would be the meanest and poorest paid of the American citizens. The public lands. the heritage of the American. would be gone. and with their occupation by a foreign people will have disappeared our magnificent manufactures. and the grand enterprise and public spirit of America will have decayed.
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Foreign immigrants are portrayed as taking over public lands and destroying American enterprise.