Many of the best friends I have are foreigners. Just a few months ago I appointed to Annapolis a splendid young German from one of my counties. after having first tendered the place to an excellent young Jew of my own city. But why is it that the desirable immigration from northwestern Europe is ceasing to come to our borders? It has been shown by those who have been investigating the conditions there that the very decrease in the splendid immigration from northwestern Europe has been brought about by the influx of Italians. Syrians. Austrians. Hungarians. and others from that part of Europe. The immigrant from northwestern Europe is not illiterate. Of the Germans only about 4 per cent of those over 14 years of age are unable to read and write: of the Irish and Scotch. only about 3 per cent. and of the English and Scandinavian only about 1 per cent. while of the South Italians more than 56 per cent can not even read their own language. Gentlemen try to deceive the southern farmer into wanting Italians for work on the farm.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizations about literacy rates and desirability of different European groups.