Iowa. Minnesota. and Kansas. added together. exceeds only by onetenth the number of foreign passengers to this country since 1819. to say nothing of their increase by the ordinary laws ofpopulation. The advantages of foreign immigration. as between the United States and the people of European countries. are mutual and reciprocal. If our prairies and mineral lands offer inducements to the immigrant and promise him requital for the pangs of severed family ties and separation from the scenes of his early childhood. he. in his turn. contributes to the development of the resources of our country and adds to our material wealth. - Such is the labor performed by the thrifty immigrant that he can not enrich himself without contributing his full quota to the increase of the intrinsic greatness of the United States. This is equally trite whether he work at mining. farming. or as a day laborer on one of our railroads.
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The paragraph generalizes that European immigrants are thrifty and contribute to the development and material wealth of the United States.