Make a scarcity of laborers of the unskilled class in proportion to the demand for labor. and wages will go up in any community as surely as wheat goes up in price with a scarcity of wheat. So much for the aspect of this question from the laborers standpoint. No analogy can be drawn between our condition now and our condition 40 or 50 years ago whereupon to predicate any conclusion as to the inadvisability of exclusion of immigration now because we did not exclude it formerly. The old immigrant who came to the United States found a homestead to settle upon. and he went out by himself or with his family where his neighbors were Americans. and he soon necessarily acquired the language. he soon acquired a certain degree of familiarity with the institutions of the country and a certain degree of knowledge of them. Now what does he do? He herds. he literally herds like cattle in the great cities. and he has no more knowledge of American institutions than if he were herding in Vienna or Berlinnot as much as if he was herding in Vienna or Berlinno more than if he was herding in Budapest or Moscow or upon some place in the coast of Asia Minor.
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New immigrants are described as herding like cattle in cities and lacking knowledge of American institutions, unlike old immigrants who assimilated easily.