Only where there are great industries. only where there is great activity. is there an opportunity for the organizer of labor to succeed. I make no reference to any special State. but recently an investigator of the Marine -lospital Service returned from an inquiry in the mountain district not far south of us. and it developed as a result of a conversation with himand I assume that his report will soon be made publicthat in that region. where the old AngloSaxon race has held its own for two centuries. where the people still use the expressions of the Shakespearean era. there is perhaps more poverty and illiteracy than is to be found in any one of the congested centers of the country where the foreign population is predominant. I found in conversation with this official of the Government that that disease for which we turn back hundreds and almost thousands of Immigrants yearly. trachoma. an infectious disease of the eye. is prevalent amongst the native whites. and thit it was probably due to a lack of perolal care as well as of education upon the subject. Such a condition does not prevail even among the Hindu race. which. if the testimony of one of its leading representatives before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization be true. at least has the merit of requiring a cleansing of the body every morning. Now. it is a reflection upon the native American. it is a reflection upon our boasted institutfons of which we are all so proud. it is a reflection upon any State that tolerates it. that there should be even a proportion to the fortyeighth degree of 5.300.000 illiterate adult persons largely native to the United States. What have we been doing to help our own people since the days of George Washington. whose birthday we celebrated so gloriously here at the beginning of this week?
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are associated with disease (trachoma) and lack of personal care.