Are you going to lay the groundwork for future pension rolls? Are you going to distract the attention and legislation of the country from the bankruptcy act. which is demanded from many sections of the Republic and which is deemed to be necessary for the relief of the debtor? Are you going to lay aside the question of restricting immigration. that we may stop the coming to our shores from abroad of that element which is dangerous to our national existence and which we can no longer assimilate in the body politic? Are you going to "abandon the great question of banking and currency reform which is being earnestly pressed upon your attention from all sections of the land and by men of all political parties. and in the proper solution of which is involved the happiness and prosperity of this great Republic? Are you going. instead of addressing yourselves to these measures of internal need. to involve yourselves. simply because you very properly and naturally sympathize with the straggle of the Cuban people for their independence. in a war with Spain at the very time when she is adopting the reformas which your President has demanded and before she has had a just opportunity to put them into practice and ascertain their effects?
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing immigrants as a dangerous element.