The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1905-04-13

words, less than one-fifth of the popu-
latiOn furnished almost one-half Of tho
malefactors. Forty-eight per cent Of
the crimes committed in the city Of
New York during that year were
chargeable to her alien-born popula-
tion, which constituted twenty eight
per cent of her total population, and of
the inmates confined in the New York
state penal institutions, in 1903, 34.6
per cent were foreign born, and 61.8
per cent were of foreign parentage.
Of 634 inmates confined in the Min
nesota State Prison July 31st, 1904,
only 31.23 per cent-including Indians
and Negroes-were native born of
native parents; 36.27 per. cent were of
alien birth, and 68.77 per cent were
born of foreign parentage, and other
states furnish similar averages.
Of the 1885 foreigners confined in
the various penal and charitable in
stitutions of the United States in 1904,
1926 were malefactors; 1894 were in
sane, and 1886 were in charitable in
stitutions. Of these alien delin-
quents and dependents 26,89O, or 59.77
per cent, were furnished by the four
states heretofore mentioned, viz:
New York, Massachusetts,, Pennsyl-
vania, and illinois,.
According to statistics the annual
cost of their maintenance was Sc, 75O,-
600. The statistical average of life for
inmates of such institutions is IL years,
and as the majority of them will pass
the remainder of their lives in such in
stitutions, the total cost, in money
alone, will approximate eighty millions
of dollars. Still the respondent says:
"Oh! don't be selfish. Let 'em come
in"
! 4-Neyg, ia -ennolnao.-. La -ea.sa.aae- s~ieh--
those that would lure us into false
and consequently dangerous posi-
tion, my opponent will address himself,
not to your reasoning faculties but to
your prejudice. By skillfully blending
fact and fiction he will concern himself
with the cultivation of your sympa-
thies. He will tell you his clients have
been oppressed, exiled, prosecuted
that they are the victims of unpropi-
tiOus conditions and unfortunate cir
cumstances and, because thereof, they
are entitled to our consideration and
deserving of our sympathy. And 1 ad-
NIT that they are-some of them. l, for
one, do sympathize with them. I also
sympathize with the victim of a conta-
giOus disease; with the leper, and the
man with the smallpox. But my SYM
pathy is not so profound as to impel me
to admit him to my home, there to be-
come burden, to disturb the we'll
ordered routine of my daily life, and to
endanger the welfare possibly the
lives-of those whom 1 love and whom
it is my first duty to protect. And yet,
in broad sense, that is what the gentle
man on the other side of the question
advocates.
The difference is merely one of
degree, and not of principle, for care
not to what theoretical attitudes the
gentleman may soar, he cannot safely
ignore the fundamental fact that the
nation is neither more nor less than
the individual in the aggregate And it
is peculiar fact-a lamentable
fact-and, to me, an inexplicable fact
that the class of illogical dreamers, to
which my opponent evidently belongs,
is constantly agitating and advocating
courses of procedure in our national
affairs which are diametrically opposed
, to the first law of our personal being;
! a law implanted by Nature herself, the
chief tenet of which is to render life
: and existence secure for ourselves and
: those that are dependent upon us.