El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-30

supporting them and make Uncle Sam
pay the bills The classes who are ex-
Guided are definitely set down in the
laws Here is a list of them as the
commissioner Of immi grafton has given
IL to me.
Idiots. imbeciles. Predetermined per-
sons and epileptics, insane persons who
have been insane within five years.
paupers and persons likely to become
a public charge. persons having tuber-
ease. persons suffering from mental or
phEsicai defects which may affect their
ability to earn living. criminals.
DOlygamists and anarchists prOsti-
tutes and prOcurers. contract laborers,
persons whose passage has been paid
fer by any association. municipality or
foreign government, and, lastly, chill
dren under l6 unaccompanied by q
How. They eheat Uncle sam.
al sorts frauds. are attempted to
get these classes through. Diseased
eyes are doctored and the lame are
taught to walk without limping as
they pass by the inspectors. Lies in
Vulnerable are told by the immigrants
and every trick is played to pass
especial care is taken az to girls who
might be brought in as white slaves"
The lone immi grant maiden is de-
tained, and II there is any suspicion
Europe Anyone suspected OF disease
Is examined by several doctors, and il
takes the o. X. Of three Of them TO let
him go through
TO show how important these re-
strictions are, more than $4,000 immi-
grants were shut out of the United
States last year upon this ground. and
Of these almost 1900 were paupers
and likely to become public charges
More than 5000 had loathsome or con
tagious diseases, $50 were criminals
more than 500 were prostitutes end
about 1900 were laborers who came to-
work under contract.
One Million New Brothers and Sisters.
And now let us look at the million
new brothers and sisters who got Jpn.
tional family Who are they and where
do they come FROM ] wish YOU could
have tramped over Ellis island with
me and taken a look for yourselvesi at
the sawed-off anemic, unintelligenr
classes who passed through the doors
at the same time 1 did. There were
2500 of them altogether, and the ina
Jority We're understood and uneducated.
They came from southeastern Europe,
and We're composed largely of Hun
garians, Slavs Italians, gypsieS and
Polish and Russian Jews They were
in about the same proportion as those
We imported last year. only the num-
Der this year viii be greater in 1910
we admitted 1.041.000 immi grants. and
Of these more than 100000 were
shipped here from Europe. we had
more than quarter ofta million from
Austria Hungary; we had over 100000
from Italy and 100000 from the Rus
sian empire and Finland.
There was only a bagatslle from
north Europe, and the bulk of the
whole came from the SOD theastern
countries Of that continent. where from
% TO so percent Of the people are Hit
crate, and where in some places more
than the majority can neither read nor
write This holds true Of the immi-
grants we are now getting. ard 1t is
in striking contrast to those who came
in In the past
For many years our ADOPTED brothers
and sisters were from England. Scot
land Ireland. Germany land Scandl-
education was high. Onl9 about per-
cent of the Germans Were initerata.
and I percent of the English and
Scotch Only 8 percent Of the Irish
could not read and write. and the same
was true of the Firms, while the illit-
eracy among the SWedles and Norwe-
gians Ean7as low as on9 in a hundred
The people we are bringing in now