The wickedness and poverty. the ignorance and vice which hive and fester in the shadow of our great cities have startled our most conservative students of economic affairs. These people live in a way and in a manner at war with every demand of stable society and at enmity with every interest of the average Americaii workingman. If our workman is compelled to compete with itinerant ilmigrants. will it be possible foi him to escape the low level upon which that immigrant lives? Can he educate his family and fit the members of his family for the duties and obligations of citizenship? I insist that no man can properly discharge the duties of citizenship. meet the responsibilities which rest- upon our voters. if he is dragged down by daily toil and deadly competition to the level of the class of people who come here for a season and then go away or who come here mumbling a halfformed curse against every manifestation of law and order.
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Immigrants are described as living in ignorance, vice, and poverty, posing a threat to stable society and American workingmen.