The American home is indeed the cradle of libertyit is the unit of the Republics strength. There are taught the lessons which endure. That immigration which does not seek to build homes among us is the most objectionable. and its exclusion will be no loss. The decline in arrivals since 1892 is readily accounted for and may be regarded as but temporary. The history of immigration discloses the fact that its lines are parallel with those marking our commercial experiencethat they rise and fall together. The recent panic checked the foreign currents. but had less effect upon the undesirable than upon the desirable elements. With the complete resumption of our industrial activities we shall see history repeated in the increase of the number of immigrants. With a larger and growing demand for workmen. the newly landed foreigners will rapidly increase to share in the competition. A patriotic regard for those to whose interests we owe first allegiance requires us to see that the persons who present themselves in this new competition shall not be the most ignorant pauper laborers from abroad. The poorer classes of foreign illiterAtes are used to conditions with which. happily. our workmen are unfamiliar. Their standard of living and wages is such that they will readily accept lower compensation and harder conditions than our own workmen could or should accept.
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Foreign illiterates accept lower wages and harder conditions, threatening American workmen.