Poverty and want had put its white finger upon them and reduced them to a condition of absolute starvation. They came here and herded together. They slept in shanties. Some of them lived in the most impoverished and desperate condition for many years. Yet who is it today who dares in America denounce a man of Irish lineage? They are numbered among our orators. our poets. our statesmen. The sons of those immigrants have taken their place proudly with the rest of the people. Then the German came. and the German was abused. He herded.- There are German colonies all over the United States. in which gradually the language disappears. gradually the racial characteristics become less and less.
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