My colleague from Massachusetts mentioned the other day a case of this kind. showing that shoemaking machinery used in England produced but 47 per cent. as many shoes per day as similar machines produced in the United States. I know something about this matter from my own experience. I was born abroad and came here at the age of seventeen years. landing at Castle Garden from an emigrant ship. I had no relatives dependent upon me. I was free to act for mysel f. and I was able to lay by money. Immigrants are usually the young. the ambitious. and enterprising. they are stimulated by their opportunities. their labor here is far superior to what it would be at home. They leave behind those whose entanglements or lack of enterprise hamper them. and the man on this side of the water is worth twice as much as the other.
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Immigrants are usually young, ambitious, and enterprising.