I insist that they shall show they have had some education of heart and conscience as well as of political conditions. That is the best thing after all. If I believed that every man and every woman who emigrates to the United States would be obedient to the Ten Commandments you might take all political conditions and throw them to the winds. so far as I am concerned. I should feel that we were secure in a higher class of citizenship. affected by loftier and better motives. than I could feel at all assured of if the man understood nothing of our language except perhaps he had been stuffed before he came with a reading of the Constitution of our country. I would not take the exposition of the Constitution of the United States from Hon. Carl Schurz. and yet he stands. I think. today eminent among the immigrants from foreign countries in official rank. in literary qualifications. in powers of mind. and in exaltation of character. He could not read the Constitution of the United States to me as an expounder. Why?
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about the moral character and education of immigrants.