There were miles and miles and hundreds of miles of fertile soil there waiting for the woodmans axe and the farmers plow. We had no steamship companies in those days to hunt among the slums of Europe and gather anyone that had money enough to pay a fare and bring them here for profit. The immigrant from whom you and I and most of the great American people are descended came from the north of Europe. He was not blrought here by anyone else. but he came here to better his condition. He had to save the money at home to buy his own rassage. He came here with the courage and nerve to go into an unknown and an untried wilderness and build a great republic. We were glad to welcome that kind of immigrants. and they were the only ones that came in that day. They were the men of brawn and sinew. They are the men who have left their mark on the American Republic.
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