Those homes can have that character only when the wage is ample. and that can be ample only when the labor field is so enlarged. so broadened. so lengthened. that every man may find a place in it at a compensating wage. The question that presents itself now is not such a one as existed fifty years ago and which was referred to by my friend from Iowa a while ago. He said that during the last fifty years it has been the crowning glory of this country that we had welcomed many millions of immigrants. Ah! but the conditions have changed. Then the immigrants that came to our shores came from England. from Ireland. from Scotland. from Germany. from the Scandinavian States. They were welcome. They were worthy. they were industrious. they were intelligent. Then we were but beginning our great system of internal improvements. Then we were just commencing the work of building the 185.000 miles of railway that. we have today in the United States. As those immigrants arrived at the seaboard they were given employmeut in that great work. and in its conduct they were carried West to the broad prairies. Then there were millions of fertile acres awaiting settlement under the homestead laws. Then the labor field was abundant.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about the positive qualities of immigrants from specific European countries.