We would not expect the extreme wealthy to come. for they are so happily situated at home they woujd not want to come. But outside of these classes I have named there is that great body of men and women whom Jefferson loved to refer to as the great common people. not .the lazzarone. not the offscourings and derelicts. but that class of men and women who have an ambition to make homes and to get along in life. Our immigrants for the most part have been of that kind. I have said on other occasions. and I say now. that. speaking broadly. we got the best of the blood of Europe in the immigrants who have come to. this country. It is not the derelict who comes. Occasionally one of them drifts here. but generally speaking. if I may drop into the vernacular. it is the game man who has always come.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that immigrants are the best of European blood and are game men.