The native American., 1838-08-11


1897
Total number 9Th September,
1887, as above, 1882
Total number 10th Sept, 1886, 2,327
Increase in one year, l,0O5
OF this number there are for
eigners, SS7
And native Americans, llS
zoos
In giving these items, the commissioners sub
join the following:
This exhibit, it is believed, iustifes the de-
mand for increased commutation fees, and points
to the necessity of enforcing all laws touching the
emigration of foreign emgrants. 1t is noticed
also that a considerable portion of the children
classed as natives, are born of foreign parents
shortly after their arrival here
On the 9th of May instant the number of per-
sons in the alms-house alone was ,342; of these
|7l9 were foreigners; in the hospital, also, 1875
persons, of whom 1O5 were foreigners in the
lunatic hall, l79, of whom 10 were foreign
ers: of the 7l3 children on the Long Island
farms, 273 are of foreign birth the number in
bridewell l34, and 70 of them foreigners: III the
penitentiary 62l persons, Of which number 326
ers l,606 And it must not be forgotten that
large amounts of fuel, provisions, and money, are
distributed annually, by the commissioners, to
the poor and the needy who remain at their
homes. And, were it not for the poverty of the
times, we should feel much surprised that the
alms-house should contain SO many inmates, when
we recollect that our humane and benevolent in
habltants also collect and distribute very large
amounts within the abodes of poverty and suffer-
ng that there are, moreover, extensive city
hospital, lunatlc asylum, seamans retreat
sailors snug harbor, and nearly twenty other
institutions for the cure Of the SICK and for the re-
lief of the poor the aged the blind, the deaf, the
orphan, the juvenile delinquent, and for the
amelioration of suffering and misfortune of every
denomination"
The arrivals into the city of New York of
foreign emigrants, in the eight years preceding
1887, have been fourfold. Those from Cork alone,
in 1896, were 4,993; and from the returns of the
State Department, under the law of I'd March, 1919
it appears that from the lst of January to the
9th July, 1887, the increase at the port of New
Y ork Of foreigners over that of the preceding yea
was in the ratio of four to one.
i The amount expended in the State of New
York, in the year 1886, for support the poor
/ is stated to have been 1896, 100 O5; and during
the Champlain canal, which is the most produc-
tive in the State except one, the sum of about
1892, 900. IL one-half the expense of supporting
the poor in that year was paid for the support of
foreign poor, of which the committee entertain no
doubt it will be seen that the receipts from the
Champlain canal for one year and half have been
insufficient to maintain the foreign poor in that
State for single year; or, in other words, we
are giving the entire avails of that splendid i'm
provement, and, in addition thereto, ty-six
thousand dollars year, to relieve foreign Gov
ernments from the maintenance of their own
poor.
i The evidence of the wisdom of the American
people, if not their pride, is to be found in their
naval armament. which costs them annually some.
thing over five millions of dollars, and we are
paying within half million Of that AMOUNT foI
the support of our poor, and one-half of them al
least foreigners.
! In 1887 there were taught in the common
schools in the State of Pennsylvania, l39, ,6O4
scholars, exclusive of IL ,234 taught in PhilaGel
phia, at an expense of $132, 900 in both places
1t is estimated that there in the city of Phila
dephia above l,5l5 foreign paupers, which, al
the average expense at that place per annum OF
$50 each, will amount to $75,750 annually.
Thus it will be seen that the city of Philadelphia
|pays Tor the support OF foreign paupers more
than one-half as much as the State pays for the
common-school education of the children of their
own citizens throughout the entire State of Penn
svlvania. And in the city of Philadelphia there
is paid seven times much for the support of the
poor of foreign countries that city pays to in
struct her own children in the clements of an
ordinary education.
1t appears from report made to the Legisla-
ture in the State Of New York, by the Secretary
of State, who is er o0icio commissioner of COM
mon schools, that, in the year 1895, 532, / 67
children in that State received the benefits of a
common-school education, at an expense OF
81 ,235,256 OF; of this sum So 1876 81 are
stated to have been "defrayed from the public
money" And it will be found that for the
same year, the city of New York alone PAID
$2o5,506 63 for the support of their paupel
population; or, in other words, the city of New
York alone paid for the support of foreign pau
pers an amount equal to one-thrd the sum pait
by the whole State for the education Of her own
children. 1t is stated that in one dag more than
one thousand three hundred paupers from ire
land, applied to the commissioners of the aims
house in the city of New York for relief.
Il In 1925 the whole number Of aliens IN the state