Let us see if we can not avoid the reproach. whether deserved or not I shall not say. -that the surest steppingstone to power in our country. and especially to the United States Senate. isthe possession of great wealth. Let us see if we can not rid our great municipalities of the corrupt rings that dominate them and plunder them without conscience and without stint. making local sellgovernment by the people so long as they are in control. a byword and a sham. Let us see if we can not pass a wisely devised immigration law that will stop at the doors of Castle Garden the great hordes of the ignorant. the vicious. and the pauper classes who come here aniually from abroad in numbers too large for us longer to assimilate. and who threaten to produce deterioration in the national blood. Let us see. Mr.
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Generalizing immigrants as ignorant, vicious, and paupers who threaten to deteriorate the national blood.