The native American., 1838-07-28

\ In memorial recently presented to the Mayor
! and Aldermen Of the city OF New York, it is
stated that during the last seven years 29G,259
foreigners arrived at the port OF New York. In
1885, the whole population in the city of New
] York was 270,0s9. Thus it will be seen, that
in the short period OF seven years, the number
i of foreigners who congscgated in the city OF
/ New York was 26,l7O more than the whole
lpopuation which that city contained in 1895.
In the memorial it is also stated that son the
lst of January, 1887, 992 foreigners and 227
! native American citizens had been admitted to
the hospital at Bellevue the preceding year. On
The lst of May last, there were in the ams-house
,437 paupers Allowing the same proportion of
j foreigners as in the hospital, and there would be
i | OG8 foreigners and 360 native citizens in the
aims house.
i '.It appears from the report Of committee
monthly appointed by the Board of Aldermen Of
this city, that there wcrc at the date OF that report,
n 3O7O paupcrs in the alms-hoHso more than three
fourtls Of whom arc foreigners. How many
more of this class live upon private charities let
the swarm Of mendicants who daily and nightly
i infest our streets attest
AT a recent date, it appears that the number of
convcts confined at Sing Sing, New York, was
800, Of whom 6O3 were foreigners.
j In the year ending in August 1896, there were
paupers, SIG of whom were foreigners. From
the Ist of January to the 25ih of April, 1887,
there were 264 paupers admitted TO the same
House of Refuge, 100 of whom were aliens.
at must be born in mind says this report that
those foreigners only who arrive in vessels of
forty tons burden and upwards are registered and
! taken into the account above stated There are
4 hundreds, nay thousands, who come i'll vessels
i Of less size, and by the way of the Canadas. 1t
i is confidently believed that the whole number OF
foreign emigrants who have arrived in this city
since 1890, amounts to more than 100000
i In 1907, the foreign population i'll the United
States bore proportion to the native Of about one
to forty; now the proportion is about one to
| nineteen.
This unnatural increase Of population, COM
lbining in social intercourse strangers possessing
different habits, speaking different languages, many
| of them unable to either read or write, not capa-
bic of duly approaching their own rights, or their
obligations to the municipal regulations of the
country which protects them, with habits cstab-
lishcd for duplicity, idlcncss, and crime, would
naturally, if not necessarily, produce Interrupt
tion to that unity and peaceful interchange Of
kind offices which 50 peculiarly characterize the
American people. t@'
/ In an address recently presented to the Mayor
Of tho city Of New York, it is stated, 1.-The ex-
tent Of the influx Of foreigners Of the lower classes
seems not to be fully understood. There are al
least, from England and Ireland alone, more thar
q a hundred and twenty thousand emigrans who
yearly reach our shores by direct or indirect conr.
ses. Sixty-fve thousand emgrants came directly
| to New York and its neighborhood last year; and
as many reached the States north of the Potomac,
| in the same space of time, in some way or an
other. This is moderate calculation. The En-
Encyclopedia Americana, translation and enlarge
ment of the German Conversations Lexicon, edit
led by foreigner, states, that from thirty-hve
thousand to FIVE hundred thousand emigrants ar
rive in this country (meaning the Canadas and the
| United States) cverv year. But few of them, il
is well known, stay in Canada; they prefer our
i Government to the colonial This statement is
corroborated by the London Encyclopedia, which
urges the British Government to send out mil
ion of emigran,s year, until proper dcpe-
ltion is made of the swollen body of their popu-
I ation, and rcckons up the cost, making it over
il five pounds sterling head, which is double the
amount they pay for landing the inmates of their
|alms-houses and jails at the present time. They
Inow pay about five dollars head for passage
money, and their provisions costs about ten dol
lars each"
; The consequence of such an amagamatior
must be dissatisfaction, if not violence, and ex
|tensivc violation Of personal rights; these pro-
duce litigation, criminal prosecutions, and con-
lsequenty large disbursements of the public mo-
ney. An examination Especially in the towns
Fl where this foreign population assembly of the
n calendar Of criminal prosecutions, will show the
+ alarming extent Of this evil. If, in time OF
; peace and tranquility, such consequences flow
from mingling in our community such discor-
| dant materials, what security can there be in a
, state of war, when concert and cooperation be-
come essential to national security.
i The Mayor of the city Of New York com
: lmunicatcd his annual message to the Common
: Council of that city on the 18th Of May, 1888.
!, from which the following extracts are taken
ls' Your early and most serious examination of oul
j, entire pa,,per system, including the contemplated
. removal of the alms-house to Blackwell's island
: or TO Randa's island, and the establishment o
: a work-house, is daily becoming more necessary.
lit is believed that, by aborious investigation,
/, and upon consequent new arrangements of the
various departments, the enormous expenses may
$ be diminished, or at least prevented from being
/ Increased except in few absolutely unavoidable
leases. #t.a .att
Il II tho addition of numbers and cost of mantc-
: nance, are to go on progressively, as may be