Try it with prudence and discretion. If we wish to say that no man shall come here who can not read and write. let us say so. but let us not say that no man shall come here who has a wife who can not read and write. unless he leave her behind. The report on immigration for last year shows that our difficulty was not that we got too many women. but that we got too few proportionately. The Commissioner of Immigration. in his twentynine different recommendations for the amendment of the immigration laws (not one of which is reported by the committee). has one in favor of keeping a strict lookout for men who leave their families in the old country and come here alone to earn money and send it abroad. in order that they may not be allowed to come overmany times. The statistics show that men came here last year to the number of 212.000. and women to the number of only 130.000. We want the women to be nearer in number to the men.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing that men leave their families in the old country to earn money and send it abroad.