The tariff has nothing to do with labor riots except to prevent them. How can a policy which has brought unparalleled prosperity to the country. and given good wages and comfortable homes to workingmen. be responsible for tumult and disorder? Not disaster. but prosperity and happiness. follow in the wake of tariff legislation. and higher rather than lower duties are needed in some lines to keep out the products of the underpaid labor of European and Asiatic countries. Not the tariff. Mr. President. but the greed of human nature. illustrated in all ages of the world and in all nations of the earth. and the surplus of cheap. servile. and too oftencriminal labor of foreign lands that is continually pouring in on us are largely responsible for troubles such as we are considering. I speak for myself when I say that the remedy lies. not in tariff reduction. but in the reduction of undesirable immigration. and in the assertion on the part of our Government of a policy that will protect our own people at the expense of those from other lands. Not only must the foreign product be taxed. but in some way the alien pauper and criminal must be effectually kept from our shores. The day has passed when we can welcome all classes and conditions of men to this country. and before long we may be confronted with the problem as to who shall b received and who refused.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about immigrants from European and Asiatic countries being 'undesirable' and a 'criminal' element.