The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-19
Bureau of immigration
Makes Constant Study
of Types.
From Northern Europe
Come the Most De-
Sirable Classes.
LatinS in General Do Not
ASSimilate With the
Americans.

tween city jewellers and country dwell
ers- The latter. IL given the least as
sistance. viii gravitate Immediately upon
arriving into rural communities. become
part of the agricultural element. and
rear clean ana healthy children. VINO
may assume the leadership Of their feI-
lows III business, the professions. and
politics. The latter, anaemic and men
tally warped on their arrival, viii inevi-
tally bury themselves in their respective
quarters IN the great cities-seIdom get
ting beyond New 1or.S-where they fes-
ter and breed criminals and form ma
fias and anarchistic colonies, and cor
rupt the electorate
He may. on arriving have several
times the amount of money brought by
his fellow-countr5-man from the COM
try. and a more general smattering Of
education, while his cunning and craft
Is q million times greater; but his blood
II poor, ms moral nature Is warped. his
political ideas the heritage of centur IS
of oppression These types are equally
discernibie from Commissioner Sargents
photographs.
Wants Country Dwellers.
Commissioner Sargent feels very
strongly on this point. to the extent
Of insisting on legislation which will
enable him to assist the country-dweiier
to favorable rural location. and to di-
rect thither such as he may Of the
other class Says he:
IN my judgment the smallest part
Of the duty to be discharged in success
fully handling alien immigrants. with
a view TO the protection OF the people
and institutions OF this country. is that
part now provided for by law Its i'm
portance, though unbeatable is rela-
lively OF secondary moment. It cannot.
Tor example. compare in practical value
with, nor can il take the place OF, meas
ures to insure the distribution OF the
many thousands who come in Ignorance
OF the Industrial needs and opportunities
of this country, and by a more potent
law than that of supply and demand
(Which speaks to them here in an IN
known tongue). colonize alien commuai-
ties. in our great cities. Such colonies
are menace TO the physical, social,
moral and political security of the coun-
try. They are hotbeds for the propaga-
ton and growth OF those false ideas OF
political and personal freedom whose
germs have been vitaIized BY ages Of
oppression, under unequal and partial
laws. which find their first concrete .ex-
preston IN resistance TO constituted au-
Snorfty, even occasionally in the assassi-
ration of the lawful agents OF that au-
thor1ty. They are the breeding grounds.
=
propagation Of physical disease Above
al. they are the congested places in Ins
industrial body which check the free cir
IL IS most needed. and where II can be
most benefited. Do away with them and
the greatest peril Of immigration will be
removed.
Country Makes Citizens.
Removed from the sweatshops and
Sums Of the great cities, and given
the opportunity 10 acquire home. every
alien. however radical his theories OF
government and individual right NAV
have been, will become a conservative
a supporter in theory and practice OF
those Institutions under whose benign
influence he has acquired and can de-
fend his household goods. Suitable leg
islatiOn is therefore urgently demanded
TO establish agencies by means Of which.
either with OF without the cooperation
of the States. aliens shall be made ac-
quainted with the resources OF the coun-
try at large, the industrial needs OF
the various sections. both IN skilled and
nS'Silled labor the cost Of living, the
wages paid, the price and capabilities
of the lands. the character Of the cli-
mates-in short, all that information
furnished by some Of the great rail-
way lines through whose efforts the ter
ritOTy tributary thereto has been trans
formed from a wilderness within q few
years to the abiding place OF a happy
and prosperous population To this END
L hope Congress VIII provide for the
establishment in connection with the
various immigration stations. more par
ticularly the Ellis Island station, n. Z.
Of commodious quarters. properly on
given TO the new arrivals