If this miscellaneous class were laborers. who in time would seek the rural districts. we might well welcome them. If they are so many additional charges on cities already burdened. we can not calculate the possible evils which may arise from their coming. We can easily assimilate the industrious workingman. but this country can no more assimilate great hordes of disaffected immigrants than the human system can assimilate an overdose of poison. It is the purpose of the bill which I introduced to meet this very exigency by establishing a bureau for the intelligent distribution of worthy immigrants. As to what countries furnish the most desirable immigrants. speculation or opinion is very much divided. There seems to be strong prejudice against the Asiatic and southwestern European. Until lately considerable prejudice existed against the Italian. but with most favorable testimony in his behalf from Georgia. Louisiana. and a number of other Southern States. our people look with a great deal more favor on these hardy. industrious agriculturists.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizations about the desirability of different immigrant groups based on origin.