Our motto. our national motto. with regard to everything. seems to be "Do it now." Not one thing must be left for the future. Why. the mineral deposits in my own county in Missouri will require fifty or one hundred years in which to be developed properly. and yet the mine owners are buying up every square foot of mineralbearing land and are trying to develop it today or tomorrow and allow nothing to be done by the future. No wonder the steamship companies advertise all over Europe for immigrants. It means money to them. and besides the great anxiety of the American people to build this country in a day and not wait for future years to help in the process has something to do with their activity in pouring Europes hordes into our.country. Such a policy gluts the labor market. and when a financial depression comes the laboring man is thrown out of employment. and he tramps the country for lodgment and goes to the great cities for a bowl of soup or a sandwich or some place whereon to lay his head. In Chicago last night. and possibly in New York. there were not less than 10.000 men tramping the streets and besieging free soup houses as they did in 1893. And yet you want more pauper immigrants. more men to tramp our streets.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are described as a "horde" that gluts the labor market and becomes paupers.