I visited that town two years ago at the reunion of a regiment partly recruited there. and 600 little school children. all carrying American flags. came out. singing. to meet us. and they were all American born and speaking what they fondly insist upon calling the "American language." They were as thoroughly American as if their ancestors had landed at Plymouth Rock or at Jamestown. With stock of this sort you can not keep the Americans out. for in one generation. from being all foreigners. they become all Americans. From nations like these we can draw our immigrants freely and safely. Their descendants are to the manor born. When Prince Henry was with us I think the best thing attributed to him was his saying that he did not know any such thing as a "GermanAmerican." Americans were Americans to him. whether by birth or adoption. It has been to the honor of the German. the English. the Scotch. the Welsh. the Scandinavian. the Irish. and many other nationalities of Europe that. on arrival in America. they at once have set about the acquisition in the fullest and completest term the rights of American citizenship. The people who assimilate with us and who. in the next generation. are welded into the common mass of the great composite American race have always been and will ever be a welcome addition to our progressive country. But the Mongolian comes to America for no such purpose. and could not adapt himself to our institutions if he were to tryand he has never tried. He comes as a bachelor. houseless and homeless. No family ties grow up around him to attach him to the soil.
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Generalization that Mongolians cannot adapt to American institutions and do not form family ties.