ir. President. except where isolations exist and are persisted in by foreigners in this country. the problem of the second generation is a comparatively simple one. The children of tile immigrants. with the exceptions referred to. are very readily assimilable in America. They easily absorb our language and our customs. They accustolu thenselves to our institutions and methods. and almost imperceptibly. as it were. grow out of their origin and environment into the institutions and customs of the Republic. I have no doubt that this bill will be of enormous benelit to the eildren of the immigrants who are here and who are not yet acquainted with our language. and have not yet become citizens. as it will also benefit the native children of the country. and in my reading on tile general subject of immigration I have discovered that the childrll of immigrats frequently becone the teachers of their parents. They acquire. as I say. by constant contact and association with the people around them. wlo are mostly citizens. that spirit of Americanism which the natiie very naturally and necessarily possesses. and it is therefore comparatively easy for thiemby example if not -by preceptto become the teachers of their less assimilable parents. But there is. unfortunately. a tendency with some classes of our foreign immigration to isolate themselves from the rest of the people. to keep to themselves. to maintain their native language. and to refuse. or at least fail. to familiarize themselves with the English language. and consequently with the customs and institutions of America.
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Some immigrants isolate themselves and refuse to assimilate.