Free trade in the commodities which our people produce would surely bring great disastf. but hardly greater than we shall find in the free advent to our shores of the old worlds criminals and paupers. if we continue to allow them to come among us. The preservation of our institutions and every consideration for.our own. welfare demand that we should protect ourselves in this direction. Honest. intelligent. industrious immigrants we welcome. They add to the wealth of the country by their labor. It is better to have them here than their products. for they consume as well as produce. while their products consume nothing. When here they enlarge our market. But bad immigrants we do not want. But who are our free traders? They are not found much among our industrial classes. certainly not among our workingmen and producers.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizes about immigrants being criminals and paupers.