These are a few of the names which would never have appearedin American history had Congress in 1790 seen fitto legislate against the alien immigrant. But there is I one other name absent from this old list .of first families with .which we have all become familiar in recent years. for it has appeared in the public prints more. perhaps. than any other associated with stirring events in both military and civil life. .at the head of a regiment of rough riders. as governor of New York. as Vice President ind President of the United States.. as lion -hunter. explorer. naturalist. discoverer of the River of Doubt. as idol of many people i.ho call themselves the true Americans of this composite people. the name of Roosevelt does not appear in any form. synonym. or root in tile list of first families. Who. then. are the native Americans who have for 100 years periodically grown hysterical about putting up the bars to .protect themselves against .alien blood. and then opening wide .the gates to welcome immigration to an enlarged field -of labor. .in this melting pot of the world. which has for 300 years been .pouring from its crucible a new composite American to stand as a type both like and .unlike those of -the older .civilizations from .which the virile blood of America has been drawn?
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