The farming. interests suffering from poor. prices. :high transportation. bad imarketing. exploiting of middlemen. .and various abnormal conditions. makes the farm unattractive .to the alien. and is driving many of our native farmers into .the cities to seek more remunerative employment in industrial lines. Our mines .and our factories are in many places oversupplied with those who desire employment. Under this ab.normal condition. it would be national folly to still further aggravate the situation by -receiving an .increased number -of .immigrants when we "can not -successfully employ ithose who are here and entitled to.prior consideration. are informed there are in Russia 600.000 who are -seeking passports to enter here. likewise in Warsaw -alone there .are 70.000 awaiting.theprivilege to enter our country. and in other lands vast hordes have -similar desires. We can not .assuine the burdens of the aftermath of .the World War by taking all this .economic waste. destitution. .hatreds. distrust. unrest. and racial antipathy arislxg from present European conditions. and at the same .time keep our country composed. .prosperous. peaceful. and.happy. It is time to explode the myth about the "melting Dot" when we know that it does not melt many who do not care.to become assimilated. but who prefer to remain foreign in habits. ideals. and language. Those whom I have mentioned. who came .as immigrants before and in the few years following our Civil War. were not of the spirit and temperament of this latterday type who come -mostly from southern and.eastern Europe. and it is to correct the quotas so that the.basic stock of former immigration classes mayreceive a larger percentage that the Johnson bill now being considered will allow an increased proportionate quota from Scotland. Wales. England.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe are not of the same spirit and temperament as earlier immigrants and do not assimilate.