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"... immigration not only furnishes the greater portion of our criminals, it is also seriously affecting the morals of the native population. It is disease not health which is contagious. Most foreigners bring with them their continental ideas of Sabbath, and the result is sadly manifest in all our cities... from holy day into holiday. But by far the most effective instrumentality for debauching (corrupting) popular morals is the liquor traffic, and this is chiefly carried on by foreigners..."

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"In every American city with a large, foreign vote have appeared the boss, the machine, and the Tammany way (Tammany Hall was a the corrupt city government of New York City). Once the machine gets its grip on the situation, it broadens and intrenches its power by intimidation at the polls, ballot frauds, vote purchases, saloon influence, and the support of the vicious and criminal. But its tap root is the simple --minded foreigner.

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"These two men are brothers, one is an American citizen and the other has just come to this country with their old mother. See the difference in the way they dress and look. America is a great country. In America, everybody has a chance. Everybody who comes to America from the old country ought to learn the American language and become an American citizen. If the people that come to America do not become Americans, this country will soon be like the old country."

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"These new immigrants were no longer exclusively members of the Nordic race as were the earlier ones who came... the new immigrants (contain) a large... number of the weak, the broken, and the mentally crippled of all races drawn from the lowest (levels) of the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans, together with the hordes of the wretched, submerged populations of the Polish ghettos. Our jails, insane asylums and almshouses are filled with this human flotsam (wreckage) and the whole tone of American life, social, moral, and political has been lowered and vulgarized by them."

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"Some Reason's For The Chinese Exclusion Act, Meat vs Rice: American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism," (1902)

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"Some Reason's For The Chinese Exclusion Act, Meat vs Rice: American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism," (1902)

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"The Chinese, if permitted freely to enter this country, would create race antagonisms which would ultimately result in great public disturbance. The Caucasians will not tolerate the Mongolian... But this is not alone a race, labor, and political question. It is one which involves our civilization.

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What disease did Strong blame on immigrants? Explain

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According to Ross, what was the influence of immigrants on American politics and government?

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According to this advertisement, why should immigrants learn the "American language?"

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According to Grant, how were the new immigrants different from earlier immigrant groups?

How did Grant see these newer immigrant groups endangering America?

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What nativist arguments are stated in this document?

Consider the source of the statement. What unstated concern do you suspect is the primary reason why this group opposed Chinese immigration?

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According to the advertisement, immigrants should learn the English language to avoid becoming like the 'old country (Push factors for why the immigrants left).

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The source material originated from the American Federation of the LABOR to Congress. Emphasis on LABOR. The author, although mainly discussing the issue of race, likely intends to garner support against immigrants in order to keep American jobs for white Anglo-Americans.

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The nativist argument stated is that new races would cause conflict between themselves. The unstated concern is that the new immigrants would take American jobs for lower wages.

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Ross, the person who wrote the insert saw immigrants as the foreign votes, which the corrupt bosses/machines used in order to get into office. These immigrants are what allows the bosses a chance through favor, included with a few other ways to get votes.

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Nativist argument states that new races such as the Chinese will cause racial antagonisms and would create disturbances such as riots.

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The "disease" Rev. Josiah describes is alcohol which he says "is chiefly carried on by foreigners". In his eyes, and many prohibitionists of the time, immigrants and their alcohol is the chief corruptor of society.

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The point was that asian immagrints would cause problems to the US and would make disturbances. The actual reason why he wants to pass the act is to stop asian people from taking there jobs because of what price asians are willing to work at.

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They were worried about the immigrants turning religion into holidays. The mix of beliefs would cause conflict.

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The main reason for the nativist's point of view is that two different races, forcibly blending together, will cause riots and some uncertain factors.

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Immigrants should learn the "American Language" in order to avoid becoming like the "old country".

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Grant, the author of the book "The Passing of the Great Race", believed that the new immigrants that have came to America were much weaker and much worse than the first Nordic related immigrants, and that these immigrants are threatening America as a whole, the threatening of the "Tone of American life, social, moral, and political."

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The "disease" that immagrints brought in was the religion making and changing what people believed in. They were "corrupting" with things like holidays and making more and more people believe in other things besides christianity.

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They were concerned if the Chinese were permitted to enter the country freely it would not only cause riots and racism but the Chinese would occupy the American’s jobs. Many of the Chinese will be looking for labor and will work for lower wages.

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The disease Strong is blaming on immigrants is the degrading of public morals. He says that immigrants cause an increase in crime, foreign ideas of religious beliefs, and the illegal trafficking of liquor.

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The document this is from a group where if immigrant where to come into the U.S it would hurt them, thus making a accuse/playing the race card to try to stop the immigrants from coming in and disrupting there business.

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The disease Strong blamed on the immigrants was alcohol addiction spreading throughout the Country. From his perspective he saw that alcohol from the immigrants were the main reasons why the city was corrupted.

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The nativist arguments state that the Chinese would create race antagonisms which would result in great public disturbances. The primary reason why this group opposed Chinese immigration is that they didn't want the Chinese to take their jobs.

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Grant saw these people as a threat to the Nordic race. These new immigrants were arriving from the Balkans, Mediterranean, and the far Eastern reaches of Europe which heavily contrasts from the previously Anglo and Germanic immigrants. Despite living on the same continent, Northern Europeans saw those in the south as "barbaric" and "backwards". That sentiment then travelled to the U.S. where it propagated amongst the White American populace.

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The advertisement from Granite City Newspaper encourages the immigrants to learn the American language to tell them that if they aren't able to speak English, many of the opportunities that the free country can give are likely much harder to reach. (Like speaking in general)

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This advertisement is saying that immigrants should learn the "American language" in order to become an American citizen and avoid turning America into a place like their old country.

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The article says to learn the new language in order to start a new and to not make it like there old country filled with horrible things. They also say to learn it in order to become a citizen.

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The nativist argument says that new races coming in would cause conflict between them. The unstated concern is that the incoming immigrants would take the American jobs for lower wages.

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The nativist arguments that are stated in this document is that the Chinese would create race antagonisms, which would lead to great public disturbances, and the Caucasians would not tolerate the Mongolian.
One unstated reason why I think they don’t want the Chinese there is that they don’t want to ruin what they have.

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The nativist argument states that if the Chinese are permitted freely to enter this country, it would lead to race antagonisms

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The nativist agreement stated that the new race would Conflict between them
The concern was that the immigrants will take the jobs of the Americans

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The disease in which Strong is talking about is the things that the immigrants bring with them. Alcohol and change in religion are some of the ones Strong has said in the article in which they has also said that the immigrants change “holy days to holidays” stating that the immigrants bring change and disease to there culture and religion.

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The "disease" that Strong mentioned was likely the entire change my immigrants in America at the time, referencing alcohol trafficking carried by foreigners, and how immigrants have tainted morals of the American population.

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According to the author, the "simple-minded foreigners" were to blame for the majority of the corruption in government. Everything from ballot fraud to vicious criminal elements originated from immigrants and their "saloon influences" or alcohol.

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The resources say that the country are sufficient enough to supply the large number of people  the Chinese immigrants if they  were to  freely enter to the country.

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Madison Grant  believed that the new immigrants were much weaker compared to the first Nordic immigrants. He describes the new immigrans as "a large number of weak, the broken, and the mentally crippled of all races drawn from the lowest (levels) of the Mediterranean bay".

Grant saw these immigrants damaging the native-born Americans society (lives), moral, and politics.

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He beleived that the new immagrints were weak and not that strong compared to the first batch. How it's endangering America is by lessening the strong people making America filled with fragile people weakaning the US.

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They were concerned that the immigrants would create race antagonisms which would lead to public disturbances. However they just didn’t want the immigrants to take the Americans jobs.

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According to Grant, these new immigrants were different because they weren't of the Nordic race. Grant saw these new immigrants as weak and with bad mental states. He saw them as something that would ultimately lower American life.

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According to the advertisement, the immigrants coming from many different places should learn the language of America, English, because if they don’t the new land of hope and freedom will turn into what the immigrants where running from. The ad says that if you don’t change how you speak your old way of life you ran from will return.

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In the document, nativist arguments such as race antagonisms against the Chinese and how it will cause a great disturbance among the public, but if from the perspective of a unionist, is more worried about the Chinese immigrants willingness to work for lower wages than the general Americans, worried about American jobs.

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In the article he says that foreigners are messing up the goverment by the bosses making them vote for them. Making the power for the person they voted for broaden.

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According to Ross, immigrants allowed for corruption and voter fraud in the polls and in city government.

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According to Grant, the new immigrants where different from the older groups because they where less like himself. He called them dirty and ghetto in which he would not describe himself and the old immigrant groups. The new immigrants came from lower class areas and from places that are not white, thus Grant differs the two groups.

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They are arguing that if the Chinese freely enter this country then they will cause "rare antagonism." I believe that another reason they are concerned is that the rates that the Chinese are willing to work for.

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According to E. A Ross, the immigrants are ruining the government through the polls and votes, this allows the 'bosses' to gain more power and opportunity.

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The disease Strong blamed the immigrants for was the ideals the immigrants brought with them. According to Strong the immigrants brought with them their religion, an increase of crime, and trafficking liquor. He thought that their religion would pollute and overtake Christianity. He also thought that with the influx of immigrants, crime rates would go up. Finally, he thought that the immigrant would promote illegal liquor trafficking.

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Strong attributed immigrants to people with bad conduct, saying that immigrants provide more criminals. From his point of view, most of the people who can leave their own country should have let their mistakes go in their own country, or emigrated to a new one. The place is too poor, so some things that are not allowed by the law will be carried out. This puts the security of a country at risk.

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The “disease” that Strong was talking about was the things that the immigrants brought with them such as religion, tradition, and culture. This was making more and more people to believe in different things.

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The disease that Strong blamed on the immigrants is there continental ideas of Sabbath and the liquor traffic that is carried on by the immigrants. Which is therefore ruining the country.

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According to the advertisement, immigrants should learn the American language in order to become an American citizen and to avoid making America into their old country, the country they ran away from.

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Nativists were concerned that the immigrants would cause riots or public disturbances because of the racial tension. The primary reason the nativist opposed the Chinese immigrants coming to America is because they feared that they would take their jobs by working for less. Nativist feared them because they knew that they would get fired if the immigrants came.

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Strong refers to the “disease” as new immigrants coming in and corrupting native ideas and morals already set in place.

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The disease that Strong blamed on immigrants was that they were bringing in these other ideas and changing things, along with the alcohol

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Ross’s views on the immigrants on American politics and government was that the immigrants where used as free votes and changed the power of things like elections. Bosses used the immigrants votes for themselves and changed and corrupted things like the government and politics as a whole.

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According to this advertisement immigrants should lear the American Language because “everyone who comes from the old country ought to learn the American language and become an American citizen” if not this country will be like the old country.

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The new immigrants were longer of the Nordic race as the earlier immigrants were, they are weaker than the earlier immigrants, and are filled with even more mentally crippled among them. The newer immigrants were endangering America by damaging American's lives, society, morals and politics.

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According to the advertisement, immigrant should learn the American language and avoid becoming an "old country"

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The advertisement says, they should learn the American Language to avoid making America like their old country

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According to Grant the new Immigrants were different from the earlier immigrant groups because they weren’t members of the Nordic race (early immigrants), and the new immigrants contain a large number of weak, broken, and mentally crippled people from the (low) Mediterranean basin and the Balkans .

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The advertisement says that the immigrants should learn English to avoid making America like their previous country/home

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According to Ross, the immigrants were being used as free votes through the use of bribery and were putting corrupt bosses into office. This then led to corruption in the government and allowed for even more voter fraud.

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The disease he is referring to is alcohol that the immigrants brought with them. He also talks about how immigrants are changing everything from religion, morals, and antagonizing the nativist.

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Grant believes that the first batch of Nordic immigrants is much stronger than the new immigrants. He believes that the new immigrants have a large number of weak, broken and mentally disabled, which weakens the United States and makes the United States vulgar.

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According to Ross, the influence of immigrants on Americans politics and government is the immigrants votes on the boss, the machine, and the Tammany way, which in a way supports the vicious and criminal.

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According to the article, immigrants use votes and opinion polls to mess up the government, make the boss more powerful, and lead to government corruption.

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According to Grant, the new immigrants were weaker than the old immigrants. He saw that the new immigrants endangered America by thinking they would change Americans

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According to the advertisement, the main reason they wanted immigrants to learn how to speak english was to prevent going back to the old times or country.

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According to Ross, the immigrants used the voting to effect the government

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Grant believed that the new immigrants were not as strong as the older immigrants. Grant saw the newer immigrants endangering America by vulgarizing our American life,morals, and politics our politics.

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According to Ross, corrupt bosses would bribe and use immigrants for free votes. This then led to even bigger fraud inside office.

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The "disease " not health which is contagious. Most foreigners bring with them their continental ideas of Sabbath, and the result is sadly manifest in all our cities... from holy day into holiday. But by far the most effective instrumentality for debauching (corrupting).

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According to the advertisement it says that the people that come to America do not become Americans, this country will soon be like the old country."

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According to the grant the old immigrants and "New Immigrants" are alike in that both groups came to the United States from Europe in search of better economic opportunities. They differ in that the "Old Immigrants" mostly came from Central and Northern Europe, whereas the "New Immigrants" mostly came from Southern and Eastern Europe. Hover for more information.

Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts made this statement in 1891. The occasion was a debate in the U.S. Senate over a proposed Literacy Act that would restrict future.

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According to Ross, they had been Irish immigration into the American colonies from at least the 17th century and, later, into the United States. These immigrants, frequently called the “Scots Irish”, were mostly from counties Antrim and Derry, were ethnic Scots who had been settled in Ireland, and were Presbyterians.

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The disease that is suggested is a non-health disease of which is including the fact that they have turned the holy Saturday into a holiday.

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They need to learn because the America now (then) was "modern" and if they don't learn then they will make America look "old".

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The foreigners have brought the idea of liquor traffic and Sabbath to America and are affecting morals due to that. The holy day have now become holidays. Their whole morals are changing the natives way.

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1. in summary the new immigrants are different to the old immigrants because they are weaker and more savages.

2. in summary the immigrants are destroying America filling up jails, insane asylums, and destroying the American life.

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The advertisement shows that if immigrants do not learn the American language the country will soon be like the old country. If they were to learn the language and acted like the Americans, America would be great for them.

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He saw it as votes for pay to help a crooked politician or other person's career get higher up the ladder by getting the votes from immigrants in exchange for things.

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According to Grant, the new immigrants were thought of as weak and broken. These immigrants were not of the Nordic race like the earlier immigrants were. "American life, social, moral, and political has been lowered and vulgarized by them."

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According to Ross, the influence of immigrants on American politics and government was that the immigrants would vote allowing the bosses to gain more power and lead to the corrupt government. “ In every American city with a large, foreign vote have appeared the boss, the machine, and the Tammany way.” The Tammany Hall was a the corrupt city government of New York City. It would support the vicious and criminal.

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The nativist agreement talked about the new race which made a lot conflicted. The Americans thought that the newer immigrants would take jobs for lower wages.

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The disease was about alcohol/liquor. This was bad because it affected the morals.

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They should learn it so American can avoid be like the old country.

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According to Grant, the new immigrants were ghetto and weak. They were very different from him.

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According to Ross, he saw it as a way for immigrants to vote which was corrupt for bosses.

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Grant thought that the new immigrants were different because they weren't Nordic. Grant saw the new immigrants as weak and thought they had bad mental issues. He saw them as something that would lower American life.

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Ross thought that immigrants allowed corruption and voter fraud in the polls and in the city government.

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Nativist where nervous about the immigrants riots and taking their jobs for less money. Nativist also thought it would cause problems if they came.

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They thought that the "disease" was the immigrants bringing in alcohol and changing the religion and morals of the Americans.

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They needed to learn the language because the Americans didn't want to go back to the old ways.

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Grant thought that the immigrants were not strong enough and thought of them as week and really different.

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They got upset because the bosses where using them as voters and to mess up the government polls.

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The advertisement is saying they should learn so America won’t turn like their old country