In Rhode Island the people to the extent of threefifths of all voting at the election must vote for the amendment. Remember. too. that all of the States in tills group. excepting Npw Jersey and Rhode Island. have biennial sessions of their legislatures. But let us examine a few more features. By the laws of Congress admitting immigrants to our shores. and by the laws of our States. not by constitutional amendment. we have endowed with suffrage thousands upon thousands of people who do not know the meaning of the word. or who have criminal records. or who. barely escaping the doors of penitentiaries. are dragging society downward. We have endowed these. I say. with suffrage by silmple statutes.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are portrayed as ignorant, criminal, and dragging society downward.