Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-07

woods of Georgia, Tennessee and Florida, who for stolid. imperviable, monumental ignorance and total lack of morality cannot be equalled, dare say in any country of osuthern Flu rope.
 The Republican editorial deals in statistics. would like to present a few I give them as the figures of a former United States consul. who says: "Of the 365. .236 immigrants com. ing via French ports in the years 1S93-1903, S3,791 were skilled work men, 168,794 farmers, 1880 profession al men, 18,419 servants. 32,557 of no occupation, including men, women and children" And after giving these figures he pertinently says: Tt would be worth our while to encour- age immigration could we count on any such average of value as indicatl ed by the foregoing figures" He goes on further to say: "Stll, the average of intelligence is not so very low. + Of those coming from Italy, Austria Hungary, Bohemia. Poland, a great many-dn fact. by far the larger part
 -are farmers. and the class that does come consists in a great meas ure of eager, earnest, courageous workers, people who are willing to take the bad with the good, to under go hardships if only they and theirs may better their fortunes. :" These are the figures and comments of a man who was in a position to learn facts and to know whereof he spoke.
 The Republican editorial spoke of the alien settlinp in congested dis tricts That is to some extent true and it would be far better for the alien if he would keep aloof from the congested districts. Still, they do not all settle in these districts. Many of them go to the great agricultural fields where their presence is a real benefit have no statistics At hand to show what proportion engage i'll agriculture, but I do know from some years experience in the country dis tricts of our state that many of them, especially Polanders, engaged in agri- cultural pursuits and bought farms left by the native-born and to such an extent that frequently heard it said: These Polanders will soon own our western Connecticut farms" There was probably some e&aggeration ill this, but 1t shows that some appreci- able proportion of the Polish immi- grants hied themselves to the agricul- tural districts. And I know that through Archbishop Ireland's coloni- zation scheme vast numbers of foreign CTS have gone to the farm lands of the west have seen carloads of them going via the Erie road to take up their homes in wheat lands of the west.
 As to the increase of crime. that must necessarily come from immigra- ton. But were that cause for keeping out the aliens then they new firstaliens who came to New England S shores were not by any means immac- ulate. To my mind the question is, does the increase in immigration pro duce a corresponding increase in crime? cannot say, not having the late census figures. If the editor of the Republican has figures to show that it does I will deem it personal favor If he will publish them, for desire to look at this question from every side. I do know that among the defaulting bank cashiers and tel lers who have sometimes robbed the alien of his little savings, among the high toned gamblers of Wall street who have so often created financial distress, among the frequenters of the divorce court, where all kinds of crime are revealed, he will find but few who bear the stamp of southern Europe. And whilst among the polyg- amous Mormons he will find immi- grants, these are mostly Norwegians, and Norway is decidedly not a south ern European country. know also that the alien is here long time be- fore he learns the crimes of abortion, infanticide and onanism that are pro ducing their damnable effects in the depletion of native American stock crimes that so sturdy native-born American as the honored president of our nation denounced bitterly in his now famous race-suicide dictum.
 might remark In passing that the crimes that come to light In the di- vorce court are never taken into con sideration when the ratio of foreign to native born criminals is taken into consideration.
 In regard to the crimes of foreign CTS I presume that drunkenness Is the most frequent of all. at least that would be my opinion from the reading of the daily papers. Yet the report in the valuable journal, "Charities,' 7 gives the percentage among the much abused ItSlians as only 3.4 per cent. It also adds that they are the most valuable additions to our population" Quoted from this (Monday) even ing's American.)
 "Then to think that American citi- zens are being continually made through scum!" So says the Repub- lican editorial The same cry was heard in the land many years ago when our immigration came from northern Europe. It is within the memory of the writer when within his own native city the protest was made against the Germans and the Irish being made voters because they were the scum of Europe. Yetsit cannot be denied that we have assimilated them and that they become in general good citizens. Why cannot the so- called foreign "scum" be made good citizens? If he becomes a menace to