The native American., 1838-08-25

Total number for ten years 4,l79
For the last five months admitted l5s
|Non-residents 44
.'..... 202
OF these, there were SO persons "seeking pen
|sions.'
The average number yearly under medical
treatment for the last five years appears to have
been thirty.
The least average number of persons daily in
the poors' house throughout the year is 10, which
would make the cost of keeping 81 OF per week.
Out of those 1853 admitted in 1887 to the
poor-house proper, 10 were foreigners.
The number admitted from May, 1887, to Fe-
bruary, 1898, nine months, was llS; of whom
II were males and al females-40 foregners.-
Of the white males admitted, about two-thirds
were foreigners. ....,
The number of persons licensed to retail spir-
ituous liquors is 200, of whom 80 are foreigners.
Of billiard-tables there are five licensed two of
which are kept by natives, and three by foreign
erS.
The annual expense Of the poor's
houseis $4,49O 90
The amount of taxes in 1882 upon
real and personal property for
corporation purposes was 35, l95 l3
The receipt for tavern licenses 1892 90
The expenditures for the same
year, for the support Of the poor,
in6rm, and lunatics 3,775 90
From this it will be seen that there is a natural
relationship between the profits derived from the
tavern licenses and the burden of the poor, the
sums received for the one having been exhausted
in the same period of time for the support Of the
latter.
So, too, more than one-ninth of the eipts
for taxes on real and personal property has been
imposed for the maintenance of the pauper.
Instead Of taking the last returns of those in the
nfrmary as rule in relation to the number Of for
eigners sustained by our citizens, and which
shows that two-thirds OF the whole number were
of that class; let us throw that aside, because il
comprises only few months, in which by posi-
bity there may have been more than upon the
average Of long period, and take the lowest num-
Der reported AT any time.
This, then, would be one-fourth and supposng
that proportion Of the whole number to have been
foreigners, it will appear that we have had as a
burden upon us, out of 474 commttas, l4S for
eigners which, at cost of $4 400 for the whole
poor and vagrants, would be ST. ,122 SO in one
wear for them; which would more than pay the
members of both boards of the city council for the
same time.
Supposng that two-thirds of the poor and va
grants are foreigners, then they are a tax upon
every individual man woman and child, black
and white, bond and free estimating the popula,
ton at $4,000 Of l3 cents. IL. ~.
Snpposng them one half, they tax to each
Of 10 cents; one-fourth, tax to each inhabtanl
of cents. And the paupers and vagrants, gene
rally, are charge upon every inhabitant of 20
cents.
1t is supposed there with us 400 voters
though that number has never been polled. And
there are 1000 taxpayers, residents and non-res
dents: of these, about 1000 are proprietors q
real estate, and 500 Of personal property only.
! At this rate, the voters, after deducting one
eighth for absent ones, pay for supporting pau
pers, yearly, each so 81; and they pay for for
eign paupers, deductng one-eighh for non-resi
dent taxpayers, 70 cents, supposing they only
one-fourth Of the whole number Of paupers.
The owners of real estate, from whom three
fourhs of all the taxes come, pay, per annun, fO
paupers generally, each So SO; and they pay fo
be one-half of the whole number, and "a cents eacl
supposing them to be only one-fourth.
| Besides this, there is fixed population of aliens
and naturalized citizens dispersed in the various
occupations Of life, but principally confined to the
public Offices and such other contingent pursuits
The number offoreign mechanics or persons in set
tied occupations of physical industry is small bu,
there is migratory species Of lahorers who, by
some system in vogue with the directors of the
public buildings, who are also foreigners, are
brought from distant place to work, and then re
turn home to spend their earnings. This course
which seems to have been countenanced by Others
in authority, has produced great hear-burnings.
The American mechanics are daily complaining
preferences to these aliens, and If coming events
cast their shadows before the banners displayed