The native American., 1838-07-28


Total number 10th Sept, 1886, 2,327
| Increase in one year, ZOOS
OF this number there are for
/ r clgnerS, SSI
| And native Americans, ll6
l,OO5
| In giving these items, the commissioners sub
join the following:
| This exhibit, it is believed, justifes the de-
mand for increased communication fees, and points
to the necessity of enforcing all laws touching the
emigration OF foreign emgrants. II is noticed
also that considerable portion of the children
classcd as natives, arc born of foreign parents
shortly after their arrival here
On the 9th of May instant, the number of per-
sons in the aims house alone was ,342; of these
l7l9 were foreigners; in the hospital, also, l35
persons, of whom los were foreigners: in the
lunatic hall, l70, Of whom 10 were foreign
ers Of the 7l3 children on the Long Island
larms 273 are Of foreign birth: the number in
bridewcll l34, and 73 OF them foreigners: III the
penlentary G2l persons, of which number 326
are Notwithstanding total of 1867; foreign
ers |, ,GO6. 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
ams-h house should contain SO many inmates, when
we rccollcct that orr humane and benevolent in
habitants also collect and distribute very large
amounts within the abodes of poverty and suffer-
| ing; that there arc, moreover, an extensive city
hospital, lunatic asylum, sealnan's retreat,
sailors snug harbor, and nearly twenty other
institutions for tho 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
ameloraton of suffering and misfortune OF every
denomination"
| The arrivals into the city of New York of
foreign emigrans, in the eight years preceding
1887, have been lourfold. Those from Cork alone,
in 1896, were 1903; and from the returns Of the
State Department, under rthc law of2d March, 1919,
lit appears that, from the LIST Of January to the
tl27th July, 1887, the increase at the port Of New
York Of foreigners that of the preceding year
was in the. ratio Of four to one.
4 The amount expended i'm the State Of New
York, in the year 1896, for support Of the poor,
is stated to have been 1896, 100 05; and during
the same period, the State received for tolls on
the Champain canal, which is the most produc-
tive in the State except one the sum of about
l$132, 900. Ii 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
i Champlan 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, slxty-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
lpaying within half million of that account for
the support Of our poor, and onc-halt Of them at
least foreigners.
In 1897 there were taught in the common
schools in the State of Pennsylvania, l3g,6O4
scholars, exclusive of ,234 taught in Pfiladel-
lpha, at an expense of 1892, 900 in both places.
It is estimated that there in the city OF Phila-
i delphia above ,5l5 foreign paupcrs, which, at
1.-The average expense at that place per annun of
$50 each, will amount to $75,75O annually.
4 Thus il will be seen that the city of Philadelphia
pays for 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
sylvania. And in tho city Of Philadelphia there
is paid seven times much Tor the support OF the
poor oil iOfcgn countries, III udl Citt W
struct her own children in the elements of an
|ordinary education.
i It appears from a report made to the I.cgsla-
Iture in the State Of New York, by the Secretary
of State, who is er o0icio commissioners of COM
I |mon schools, that in the year 1895, 532, ,l67
lchiIdren in that State received the benefits of a
common school education, at expense OF
81 .235 256 O2; of this sum $3l3,376 OIL are
stated to have been ''delrayed from the public
money! And it will be found that for the
same year, the city of New York alone paid
$2o5,50 G3 for the support of their pauper
population; or in otIcr words, the city Of New
York alone paid for the support of foreign pan.
pors an amount equal to onc-thirc the sum paid
by the whole State for the education of her own
|chiIdrcn. 1t is stated that in one dag more than
one housa,,d three hundred pa,tpers from RE-
land, applied to the commissioners Of the aims
house in the city of New York for rclici.
i In 1926, the whole number Of aliens III inc o'a'e
of New York was 4O,43O. BY the, late census
taken in 1895, it appears that the whoe popula-
ton in that State was 2,l74,5l7; Of which mum
Der it is supposed there were at least ioo'oS1
aliens. or about one alien to every l3 naf're and
tbp Statp. from which 1t