If conditions in America were to become worse than they are in Europe. there would be a migration from this country to Europe. but who would migrate? It would not be those who hold good offices. it would "not be those who own the banks and the railroads. it would not be those who have good salaries. it would be that class of our people who found their condition most intolerable and who were seeking to better that condition. That same rule has obtained at every period of history with reference to Immigration from Europe. if we make the possible - exception of those periods when there were considerable numbers fleeing to this country purely for consciences sake and for * religious liberty: . There were. of course. in the very early days a few adventurous spirits who came here to establish themselves in principalities. to obtain enormous land grants.. and so forth. I except theisi from the rule. but with these small exceptions:and they are so small -as not to affect the. grand totalthe �.people who have come to.this.country in every age of our development have been those who in their own land were for the most part unhappily situated.
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