If they were inferior stock. why put them on the same basis with. the stock. which. earlier settled this country? Now.. this situation las changed about.. gentlemen. from its original basis. The proponents started out to scientifically prove that the recent immigrant was socially inferior. and then when they go before the people and are arraigned with. narrowness and bigotry they seek to justify themselves.. they are on the defensive. The proponents now say that they do not discriminate while the whole ot the socalled scientific study carried on by this Doctor Laughlinand the first syllable is spelled Laughwas to prove that we ought to discriminate against southern and eastern Europeans. because they are inferior. Now. let us be on the level with ourselves. Let us not try to delude ourselves that we. are trying to legislate and. yet are. not discriminating when the record shows that we are. discriminating. Well. in a sense. it is the same old stony. Once we get in we close the gates behind us and. keel) out the- struggling immigrant who. springs from the same ancestors as we do. I am amused at such illustrious Americans as Secretary of Labor Davis and the president of the American Federation of Labor In their great. desire to exclude from this country and not afford the opportunities of this country to probably their own relatives after they have so eminently. profited from its opportunities.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that southern and eastern Europeans are inferior stock.