When they leave a town its prosperity. its thrift. its business energy and push is over. We have among the Jews less number in the poorhouse. the almshouseless paupers. less number in the penal institutions and less anarchists. a more selfsustaining. selfgoverning citizenship than any other sect. creed. nationality. or race. Therefore I am for the Jew [applause] as an immigrant to this country. The Mennonites live unto themselves. They never disturb the country. they never encumber the courts. They add greatly to the sum of prpductlon. are selfsustaining. and make good citizens. The same may be said of the Armenian.. and I want to make the language of this bill so clear that their admission will be beyond a question of a doubt. I do not want. as I said before. 2704any discretion lodged in the -mind of the immigration officer. I want this country to be truly an asylum for every religion that is wholesome to our civilization. I want it to be truly one established to protect and defend the liberty or the religion of every man.
Identified stereotypes
Jews are described as having fewer people in poorhouses and penal institutions, and being more self-sustaining than other groups.