There are higher wages in Cape Colony than here for similar work. The reasons why the wages are not quite as high in Canada are that it is a cold. bleak. sterile country. and as a consequence it has not as great a proportion of pleasant. rich lands to live upon as we have had in the past. and then. too. it has not had altogether the same character of population. The French population and the early English population of Canada were assisted immigrants. They were not the sort of men who. whatever their vices may have been. whatever their faults may have been. were the boldest of their generation. and the man who is the boldest of his generation is apt to be the most enterprising. apt to be the most inventive. and he is apt. of course. just as horses and sheep are. to leave descendants behind him of his sort. and until new conditions of acquired density of population and new conditions of a fixed. industrial slavocracy. if I may call It so. shall sap his independence and manhood and courage. he will always be man for man the superiornot because he is of superior race. but because he is descended from the culled individuals of all these other races. The gentleman from Indiana then dwelt upon our foreign commerce. and I call attention to what he said now as a cold matter of reason and not as a matter of- oratory.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about the boldness and enterprise of early immigrants.