If he is worth $500 he is much more likely to take a musket and fall in at the command of the governor and the sheriff to repress riots than the millionaire who. perhaps. takes his yacht and escapes the danger. having bought foreign exchange. The safety of the country is in the hands of the poor men who have something or who mean to save something. if you omit any respect for their moral and Christian principles. But. sir. indiscriminate legislation of the kind proposed here. a prohibition of immigration to poor men. would not tend to correct the evils against which the Senator warns us. The dynamite conspirator orthe roaring socialist who would destroy all the natural rights. as -we consider them. of property. can easily raise money enough to pay the twentyfive or thirty or forty dollars needed for transportation. The professional agitator will not be excluded by any bills like this. I am not willing to puta brand upon immigration by the wholesale. The dangerous men arenot alone those who come from abroad. not those illinformed and illeducated poor laborers who came from other lands. The dangerous men have some money either from their own resources or by levyingupon others. and have a good deal of education. such as it may be.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that poor immigrants are dangerous and ill-informed.