The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-14

show the slightest depreciation in num-
bers. The great increase has come in
Poles. Hungariaus, Herzogovinians. Bull
garians and Turkish races. The Italians
number about 30 per cent. of the aggre-
gate Of these peoples. But the steady,
alarmingly increasing contingent are not
the Italians. but the Sclavic races.
In the assimilation of races into a COM
mon people there must be to certain
extent a common parentage. Certain tri
bal races can be assimiiated and vet pre-
serve a common type. In our earlier i'm.
migration there were no elements which
could not be fused into one and yet pre-
serve the Anglo-Ssxon. In these latter
days when the influx is overwhelmingly
Sclavic, It is an open questions whether
II can be absorbed by the Anglo-Saxon.
From indications the contrary would APP
pear. 1t would seem strange 10 us. yet
It Is nevertheless possible, that this con-
tinent, instead of being the home OF one
people, shall be the home of two, the
Anglo-Saxon and the Sclavic.
In all the great cities certain districts
are crowded to their uttermost capacity
with these people. They preserve their
language, customs, habits. Except for
the difference in climate. which makes
itself respected. they might as well be
in their own countries. The Departments
| OF Health, Fire and Police pursue a re-
lentiess warfare upon them in order to
enforce some OF the many regulations OF
their respective departments. In the pub
lie schools which truant officers keep
filed with children, there is ceaseless
trouble to enforce obedience and maintain
discipline. beyond the idea of order and
authority they learn little or nothing.
These people, densely ignorant, the OFT
shoot of a great populous race which has
for centuries been under suppression, are
vigorous. and under proper conditions
would develop into a great people. They
are of Tartar origin, ana figured In the
old Roman days as the Huns and White
Huns The mass of the people are not
advanced to-day any further upon the
scale of human progress than they were
when they existed in the half civilized
state of Ukraine, or the Kingdom of Po-
land
These people have been brought here
by the agents of steamship companies
who food their country with life In the
states. pictured in attractive lines. Upon
arrival they find the labor market crowd
ed and bread hard to get. Naturally
enough, they crowd certain districts and
exist as they best know how. The Vice
Committee of Fifteen and the Tenement
House Committee in the State of New
York has for the past year thoroughly
Investigated the crowded sections OF the
city and prepared bills for enactment
which. when they become laws, wild do
much to impose upon these people condi-
tons which belong to the advanced civil
zation of the Anglo-Saxon people.
The evils of immigration can be met IN
only one or two ways. The gates must
either be stoutiy closed and opened only
to desirable Immigrants, or state govern
ments should provide measures to place
these people on farming lands and main
| tain them until the farms produce a liv-
ing They must go either to cities or
| farms The farmland is scarce occupied.
| the cities are overcrowded. To avoid
| countless evils in the future the gates
must be either shut or these people made
| farmers.