The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-08
A FLOOD OF ALIENS.
THE REV. JOEL s. IVES, AD-
 DRESS.

Joel s. Ives, of Hartford, delivered an address at the annual meeting of the Congregational Home Missionary soci- ety. His topic was The Foreigner in New England" Mir. Ives said:
 During the last forty years an alien multitude of sixteen million has been added to our population-an annual av- craze of four hundred thousand-which has raised the percentage of foreign parentage in the United States from 2S.2 in 1870 to 34.3 in 1900.
 The last ten years, and particularly the last five, have shown marked changes, not only in the astonishing in- crease of numbers, but even more in the sources of that immigration.
 Since 1893 the increase has been more than one hundred thousand each year, while for the last twelve months it is more than two hundred thousand, bringing the total to the unprecedented figure of one million. March registered 9S,S94 and April registered 129,6S2, while May promises even to increase these to- tals. These figures break all records of the immigration office.
 It is no longer now the north of Eu- rope which is sending these vast multi tudes to our shores. In large propor- tion they come from southern Europe from Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, from Aus tria-Hungary with it's thirteen different kinds of peoples, from Poland and Rus sia, Turkey, Greece and Portugal.
 During the last six months, including April 1903, 1O9,122 have come from Austria Hungary. 120,122 from Italy. 59.1O7 from Russia, in all 2SS,351, out of total European immigration of 3S2,0S0, or seventy-five per cent. This is a large increase over any preceding year.
 These people of Italy, Austria and Russia are poor, superstitious, ignorant and indifferent. if not hostile, to all forms of both church and state. The expressions of church and state have driven them forth. Of those over four teen years of age, in last years immi- grafton, 2s.7 per cent. were illiterate We have absorbed into our American ism the Saxon, the Celt and the Ger man; it remains to be determined what we can do with the Latin, the Slav and the Hun. What shall we say of New Haven with a quarter of it's people Ital- ians and Hebrews, or of Fall River or Woonsocket, where almost nine out of every ten are of foreign percentage?
 COMING TO NEW ENGLAND.
 The last few months show an increase of the better class of immigrants and many are buying tickets to the north west, but an increasing number is com ing into New England. They only av- craze to bring sixteen dollars with them, and therefore in their poverty they are perforce precipitated upon these Atlantic shores. New England in 1879 was thirty per cent. foreign and in 1900 forty weight per cent. Taking Mas sachusetts, Rhode Island and Connect icut the figures are even more striking, 41.5 in 1870 and 61.S in 1900. These three states are more than sixty-two per cent. of foreign parentage; that Is, more than three-f1fths. If three generations should be counted, hardly more than one-quarter of southern New England is native
 Emigration also is to be remembered. In Connecticut during the last decade it was sixteen per cent. There are 65,- 900 New Englanders in New York city and one hundred thousand on the Paci- f1c slope. The same time the birth and death rate constantly favor the new conner. Young people, with their large families, are crowding to the front. The Pilgrim and the Puritan have had their day. Gregorian chants and He brew synagoguees and sunny Italy have new meanings as we read the rec- 5e r,F nIit ing into our cities and towns, driving our native help from our factories. buy ing up our abandoned farms" holding the balance of power in political and moral questions and making the future of not few of our churches dependent upon these very Strangers and for eigners." Over sixty thousand Italians anr about as many Austro- Hungarians have come into New England to the last three years. The five New Eng land cities of Fall River (S6.I, Holyoke (S32), Lawrence (SS.6), Lowell (77,9), and Woonsocket (83.6), have a higher percentage of foreign population than New York (76.9), Chicago G7.4), or San Francisco G5.2).
 During the year 1902 41,7S9 aliens came into Massachusetts, only New York and Pennsylvania receiving more. This is larger number than went into the fifteen states and territories of Ari- zona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Minne- sota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. During the last twelve months the number has not been less than sixty thousand. Add the immi- grafton into the rest of New England and the appeal for missionary work in the east is tremendous.
 NEED OF MISSIONARIES.
 The imperative demand for missiona- ry endeavor is in old New England. The Gosel mpust reach these incoming thousands or the New England of Christian civilization will cease to be. New England does not ask help from her giant children of the west, but she does ask that these children release her from the long and generous care for herself. Connecticut has given $4,500.- 900 to this home missionary enterprise, and eighty-six cents out of every dol lar have gone out of the state.
 Connecticut is the pioneer in missions. The Missionary Society of Connecticut, organized in 179S, is the oldest mission ary society of America. Massachusetts is the pioneer in foreign work.
 In Massachusetts the gopel is