Why should we introduce into the body politic as an additional burden to carry people who are bound down by the shackles of ignorance when we are endeavoring in every way to lift our own people above the line of illiteracy? We boast of our great national progress and material development. but I want to say to you that our progress and development are merely the soil in which culture and character grow. and if the stock planted in that soil is poor. the plant will be vitiated and ultimately die. The class of immigrants that we are receiving today are a very different people from those who developed the country a generation ago. They come from different races of people. and a different character of immigrants from the same race of people are coming today from those who came in past generations. In the past the strong. independent. and adventurous came. Today the weak. dependent. and the dissatisfied are coming to our shores to compete in the battle of life with our own people.
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Today the weak, dependent, and the dissatisfied are coming to our shores.