Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-30
IMMIGRANT JZA72ON AT ElLl5 GLAND
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cotton. cane, rice and tobacco land6
 that have never been cultivated. In>
 deed, Louisiana alone has 19O0QO00
 acres of vacant land out of total Of 26.00O,OO0, and it is estimated that not
 more than one-eighth of the cotton
 lands of the whole south is under culI tivation. In Louisiana there are more
 than a hundred immigration societiea and in Maryland there are still moroj But neither these nor the similar or1 ganizations in other southern states are looking for the Hungarians and Russians now focking into the north in superabundance. The south has
 been calling for the good old Teutonio and Celtic stock which settled the country in its first days-the English. Irish, Welsh, Scotch and Germans, in particular. Yet, climatically speaking. the Italians are, of all of our immi- grants, those best suited to the south. and moreover they now constitute the largest class of our immigrants. Tho supply of these far exceeds the de- mand, in the north. They have proved to be successful farmers where they have so far settled in the southern cotton and sugar plantations. The great numbering companies of the south are also employing them and 1t Is estimated that more than 100000 are working in the southern Missis. sippi valley. They have begun to pur. chase little farms, to build good homes and to put money in the banks. They are found to be prompt in paying debts, and to have improved morally as well as financially since arriving. The younger of these Italians do not wish to return to Italy, which desire has caused their race to be generally disliked in America.
 It would seem as though the cream of the old worlds peasantry is now nearly skinned oil. Lately there has been significant increase of persons who under the old law have had to boi passed by the immigration surgeons. but who have been marked as 'poor; physique" This marking has implied that the subject has been undersised or poorly developed, has feeble heart action, arteries below the standardl size. etc. In other words. as ono d the surgeons explains. that he has| been physically degenerate.
 It is to keep these degeneratee out that the law gives the examiners far greater scope than ever before for rs1 fusing entrance. The degenerate him- self is not only unlikely to become q desirable citizen. but it is very likely that he will transmit his undesirsble qualities to his offspring. By admit1. ting such aliens we vastly increase our number of public charges. That the physical and mental quality of tho aliens we are now receiving is much below that of those who have come in former years is evident" says Com{ missioner General Sargent He 10, gently instituted an investigation Of the charitable institutions of the coun-, try. and actually found 10000 allen paupers. including lunatics. in our pub lie institutions. besides 5000 of them supported at public expense. In addi. tion he found in these institutions about 65,000 naturalized foreigners. But the most striking fact gathered by the commissioner general was that while in the United States there arc 75 citizens to each alien there are in our insane asylums and poorhouses only six citizens to each alien.