Mr. Speaker. to your own knowledge of the history of origins in this country to answer this question. What it is that makes foreign immigration a positive acquisition to our country is that no. man wishing to come to this country does so except under the impulse of a disposition to Improve his condition. He is dissatisfied with conditions in his own land. He is blessed with a wholesome discontent and this wholesome discontent is. so far as I know. the only measure of ambition. If an immigrant brings here a strong body. an acute mind. and fine moral sensibilities. we need have no fear of the influence of his presence upon our institutions.. Nay. we may rather rejoice to think that he has those- qualities which. found in the fathers of the Republic. enabled them to build a land which I verily believe is to endure as long as humanity has ambition to improve. Mr.
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Immigrants are described as having a disposition to improve their condition, being dissatisfied with their own land, and possessing ambition.