I believe this policy to have been wise and beneficent. Under it our greatest development has taken place. With our present rate of immigration it should not be discontinued. Whatever may be saideas to the foreignborn citizens of our large cities no complaint has ever been heard in regard to those settled in country homes. On the contrary. they have always been recognized as industrious. thrifty. and valuable citizens. The immigrants ambition is. as a rule. to secure himself and family a home. and his content and happiness depend largely on the fulfillment of that wish. while discontent arises as the acquisition of homes is made difficult. If it were not that these additions to our population are enabled to secure themselves homes among us. and thus give hope of becoming profitable to themselves and the community. it were far better not to admit them at all. In that cage not many years would elapse until you would hear the same objections raised to European immigration that is now made to the Chinese. If any danger to the maintenance of our institutions lies in store for us. I verily believe that land monopoly and consequent difficulty in securing independent homes for the hundreds of millions who will. before another century has rolled by. inhabit our country. are most likely to prove the rock upon which our noble ship may be wrecked.
Identified stereotypes
Foreign-born citizens in large cities are problematic, while those in country homes are industrious and valuable.