In everyage it has. crawled forth to thrust its forked tongue into thefaces of the hopeless and the despairing. Here is something. more about the Irish. The Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor in New York in 1859 reported that the Irish immigrant ":had an utter distaste for felling forests and turning up the prairies for themselves. They preferred to stay where another race would furnish them with food. clothing. and labor. and hence were nostly found loitering on the lines of. the public works in villages and in the. worst portions of the. large cities. where they competedwith negroes for the most degraded em ploym ents." . . .. . - .. . Why. that Is whatyou are sayingnow about the presentday immigrant. Just as a few years ago .yotl were chargiug that tlG Irish herded. in. the cities. that the- Germans herded in the cities. that the Swedes herded in the cities. and that all these wicked foreigners herded in the cities. It was charged then just as truthfully as it is charged now.
Identified stereotypes
Irish immigrants are described as lazy and unwilling to work, preferring to rely on others.