In view of all this. to permit each year a half million of fullgrown men and women. intellectually as dark as midnight. incapable of reading a word in their native tongue. to come to this country. associate with our children and our people? Will you dare tell me such would not debase our intellectual standard? Fifth. Unrestricted immigration lowers the standard of patriotism in our country. In considering this phase of the subject let us forget for a moment all other effects which it produces. for they are as nothing compared to this. Labor may be considered a disgrace. -wages reduced to a minimum. our schoolhouses and colleges may become inhabited by owls. yet nationally we may live as long as we respect our Constitution and enforce our laws and the fires of patriotism continue to burn.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that immigrants are intellectually inferior and debase intellectual standards.