President. can contemplate the situation without feelings of loathing and abhorrence tar the miserable creatures and apprehension for the effect upon our AngloSaxon civilization and democratic institutions? I can not give you a better picture of that situation than by quoting from Dr. Francis A. .Walker. who. writing ten years ago. said: The immigrant of the former time came almost exclusively from western or northern Europe. We have now tapped great reservoirs of population then almost unknown to the passenger lists of our arriving vessels. Only a short time ago the Immigrant from southern Italy. Hungary. Austria. and Russia together made up hardly more than 1 per cent of our immigration. Today the proportion has risen to something like 40 per cent. and threatens soon to become 50 to 60 per cent. or even more. The entrance Into our political. social. and Industrial life of such vast masses of peasantry. degraded below our utmost conceptions. is a matter which no Intelligent patriot can look upon without the gravest apprehension and alarm. These people have no history behind them which is of a nature to give encouragement. They have none of the inherited instincts and tendencies which made it comparatively easy to deal with the Immigration of the olden time. They are beaten men of beaten races. representing the worst failures In the struggle for existence. Centuries are against them as centuries were on the side of those who formerly came to us.
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Immigrants from Southern Italy, Hungary, Austria, and Russia are described as peasantry, degraded, and beaten men of beaten races.