New-York tribune., 1905-08-18

viii not take time tonight even to outline what
think might well be worth the consideration Of
first to what there is in our own land
hs asn yog 70 VII TgSI you tas o sa @
alarmist who is so nervous will you also forget
tonight the pessinistI By the way. viii you get
this borrowed definition OF pessrnist: "A man with
that IS not lighted Forget all this and come with
stand bf6rs tba fnf W grea foq nma US servor
where on the day that visited 800 aliens were
How they sd ~Gra
and have a right to remind You that the pen is
Notwithstanding thank God that in our own land
namely. and is doing its best. and more and more
Is II improving the system and gladly treating as
frankly TO reember @ That s alter re days upon the emil
TP por1 an6 tgr9 gn a1 hgy 10 IN T
new chance, they are kept for hours and hours
in here e1 Shfn are nIH met tne 9a
UNDER SUSPICION.
Under suspicion from the very moment that they
come; the doctor, the inqusitor, the man who de-
taken TO the ones that can speak your language
i ported. and and 8. G the % tragedy Of it ali want to
say TO you that as l stood and watched 1t with
gone by We went into the pen where those were
to go back and as LOCKED at f1eir & faces sad SAD;
stronger for that kind must forever be kept OUT;
bT hear beT .9 @ e1 otSer ana every father and
every child. I looked at them critically, seemed
that finally took them to the Batter to go their
way for another chance. in Gods country.
had prepared for you. Some people are wonder
our shores last year Men are telling you that the
quality is going down as the quantity is rising rising
in his estimate OF quality to tell me where ne
that because man comes from Southern Europe.
from Italy or from Hungary or from Austria, as
Britain or Norway or Sweden or Germany or Rus
sia he is among the undesirable classes? Then
man with his human instinct to pick out tha:
nan hle Dedore tst is is f A9S ~ "a . eT A tb-o,sb M
all Of our figures will find that this great alien
invasion OF nearly @ million last s year Is not chang
We are not alarmed because Of the quantity nor
peases s S-ii' believe vet they viii Be new to you
sd to get m fP eS2 asf m IS ech
impure because of this strain being fairly let
SoE for little m star5s 3 .ng nGEpqq9 2 o Taxing 515
way: 1871 1880 there were Is aliens 70 loo; lsGl
issc 10 10 Oa6: and now the next decade 70; the
next 49, the next 1o4 and now IN 1891 to 1900 50 70
the ratio of increase by immigration growing
number of Immigrants who came between 1881 and
1900 is very much fewer to the general population
than the number of immigrants who came in 1874
to 1850; and ask you. then, not to be alarmed in
Ger this from another expert and remember an
eSper{ i Is one eaat you can an s8engs R g trust Na
the state Of New-York. He said in New-York last
you are told the Immigrant in particular, be-
comes burden upon the community by occupying
fs & ana tb tae % PeFa han ana das
YOU tolG that there kinds of imIni-
ing those that are designsfsd as the ones Who are
kin TO US in race or blood or habits. and the
ures, which it would be altogether too volunlnous
a task undertake here. will prove that this is
aot true that the so-caIled undesirable the South
and the Eastern European. furnishes the larger
our criminal list from Northern instead OF Southern
And then he goes on to say that the number o,
people in the hospitals are from the immigrants.
dents working in the trenehes dggnr your ae5 coal
in the mine. and working in our underground rail
NEED OF BREADTH.
o. friends. broaden a uttIs bit as We understand
and look into some of these things. Men have tried
to make out. too. that they are the wards of the
to the contrary. one is the agent OF the great
here that win not read but Just want 70 refer
to one thing when he says something that ousht
men paupeTs? Hear him when hs SAYS;
s,ait, appears apps {ne eolnIissoners Official report
mentionedT-that is. s9UeO0OOo-'last YEAR: and il
1h & ws5e ndt b s faa fhey 5s upon arrival il
thing to break up their homes. that they had to
1ba bFemsq & AtnmeTp t 5 e and
the American port which is at present a. least Ssi
bead ,ios SO 'has, AZ adding Sp al the traveling ex
10 each person; or in other words a family Of Six
country S511i''
ask YOU now. then, do you can a man in ;his
country pauper who has over 500 laid away for
rainy day. VIII our average workingman come
up tha. HstY And Vet sometimes told
that these people are coming to us paupers.
You say he IS tliteTate. q, my friends how
fearful we are of the uliterate! Get this per-
proved and have my figures from % Sources 1Sse 16af
are reliable There is vague notion that the Inn
migrant Is iliterate This is not true Compare
lively. Moreover. whether the original imnierant
he illfterate not his children are more uterate
than the chhdren OF the native American
very much startled 20 find a little set OF figures
that gave these facts: Natives OF foreign horn
parents who could not speak English in New
York State. according 10 the 1900 census 500; in
Wisconsin. 5000; I'm Minnesota. 740. and Penn
sylyania there We're natives born Of native parents
who nevertheless-the childrens-could not speak
English to the number OF $1,000 in the great State
OF Pennsylvania