They carry on not alone the work of the operative in the factory. but they engage in every avocation known to our industry. They have their schools. they have their churches. they have their newspapers. and they have something of the pride of race. and so long as it does not interfere with their complete amalgamation as American citizens. who would care to see destroyed that just pride of the Irishman in Ireland. or of the German in Fatherland. or of the Englishman or the Scotchman in the great empire of which they were members and in whose renown they have still a pride. although separated from the mother country? Men who have no pride in their own origin certainly never can be desirable as an accretion to American citizenship. and if in the course of this debate there has been anything of slur or of obloquy cast upon FrenchCanadian citizens of the United States or the general character of this immigration. for one. from the standpoint of one who knows them. I desire to repel whatever may have been said against this population. I rather desire an increase of it. I would not return from my own State or from any portion of our country a single immigrant from Canada. FrenchCanadian or otherwise. Particularly.
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