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Photograph from Frederic C. Howe 



SCOTCH CHILDREN 



Taunted with the fact that in England oats were fed to horses and in Scotland to men, 

 a famous Scot replied that England was famous for its horses and Scotland for its men. 

 America knows how much it is indebted to Scotland and the Scotch-Irish. Nearly half of 

 our Presidents have been either Scotch or Scotch-Irish. 



negrins, more than a fourth of the Jews 

 and Greeks, more than half of the South 

 Italians, more than a third of the Poles 

 and Russians, and a fourth of the Slo- 

 vaks. 



Who can estimate our debt to immigra- 

 tion? Thirty-three million people have 



made the long voyage from alien shores 

 to our own since it was proclaimed that 

 all men are born free and equal, and lib- 

 erty's eternal fire was kindled first on 

 American soil ! It is as if half the Ger- 

 man Empire should embark for America, 

 or all of England except the county of 



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