Why should this be so? Why should not some of these other elements that enter into our population. and that are so brilliantly endowed with gifts related to valuable citizenship in one way or another abandon all reserve in their relations to our characteristic American traits. habits. and interests. and exer1.is.. as colluilanding an influence in the political life of the nited States as is now exercised by men of British stock? If we will only (-heek the tide of immigration and give free play to all the assimilative forces of our national life that state of tlinfs will not be long postponed. In (-onlusiol I will only say that in the pending bill. properly �1lleil.dl. I see a happy harbinger of what I trust and believe will be the final stage of development of the American people.
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