The long speech of the Senator from Missouri might be answered in one sentence. if it were thought advisable to answer it in one sentence. and that would be this: The American people are now expending something like a billion dollars a year to eradicate ignorance. and yet men. socalled statesmen. come here. misled by prejudice in favor of some race or misled by political interest. appealing and pleading to the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States to import more ignorance! What use have you for it after it gets here? You say it goes Into the mines and goes upon the farms and goes somewhere else. Maybe so. What does it do when it goes there. if it doesand it generally does not. The illiterate and ignorant immigration generally hangs around Chicago. New York. and Boston. but if it goes to these other places. what does it do? It simply displaces intelligent American workingmen.
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Generalization that illiterate immigrants displace American workers and cause problems.