Naturally the huge industrial organizations conspired with the steamship companies to unload these multitudes on our coasts. The result was a labor market so overstocked as to be more than ever at the mercy of industrial managers. the further massing of men. women. and children in tenements and slums amid surroundings of utter misery and wantwages. working hours. and conditions being such as to condemn them to thorough wretchedness. Judge Gary. of the Steel Trust. has been clamoring for more immigrants. A flooded labor market means wages on the lowest possible basis. and this means -disastrous conditions for the retail merchant and the products of thefarm. Meanwhile on the Pacific coast immigration from the Orient began to present threatening questions of racial. economic. and religious character. A little Japan has been established in the United States. as have diplicates of other countries almost equally antagonistic in racial characteristics. standards. customs. and ideals. in various sections of the Republic. We possess no longer the racial unity and harmony which were ours when we declared American Independence and established American liberty. We are a medleya discordant. chaotic medleyof all the nations of the earth. and it is beyond human power to foretell the outcome. . True Americanism demands that immigration cease until we can make careful analysis of the situation and work out some just and safe solution. Temporary admission for trade. exhibitions. study. travel. and so forth. admission of immediate members of families already here. and the other exceptions enumerated in the Harris amendment on which we voted yesterday should. of course. be allowed. In June of 1919. at a service in commemoration of Americans who had died in the World War.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants from the Orient are racially, economically, and religiously antagonistic, creating duplicates of other countries within the US.