The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-15

SEX accounts for many of those shocking condi-
tions in foreign quarters, which are the despair
of intelligent citizens. The Independent Maya
zine recently said:
'aThe wave of recent immigration has brought
with it the Oriental conception of woman's status
We must not shut our eyes to the fact
that in the future the Christian conception OF
womanhood is not to be maintained in this coun-
try without struggle"
There are 1000, 900 more alien men than WON
en- now with us; this leads to vice unspeakable
limited at in these words: THE testimony Of for
eign consuls and leaders among the foreign born
leaves no doubt that in some instances the WON
cook Of the immigrant boarding house is com
mon to inmates
The Slav is a transient and comes here with
the intention of a short stay, therefore, he is
willing to live in noisome quarters comparable
only to the slums of Canton. After enduring
such "homes' for the sake of cheapness, he will
return to his native village with the small hoard
ing of his American wages. He goes, but he
leaves his housing conditions behind
It is largely these unassmilable aliens, asserts
Prof. Ross, that give us "the problem of the
city. The later alien influx has rushed us into
the thick of urban problems, and these are gray
eSC WIIc1c AllISLICdIS are IcWSSL. Congestion
misliving segregation, corruption and confusion,
he says, ARE the problems now so formidable
in New York, Chicago, Pittsburg and similar
towns, and these are due to great extent to the
presence of the un-Amercanizable southeastern
European"
Paupersm bred in these foreign quarters is
cancer in otherwise furnishing communities
that draws from native strength. AS says 8
rhn itv IN
'All of us aghast at the weak fiber of the
second generation Every year | see the morass
of helpless poverty getting bigger The evil har-
vest of past mistakes is rpening, but it will take
twenty years before we will see the worst of it
If immigration were cut off short today, the bur
den from past neglect and exploitation would &C
on increasing for years."
OF $500 delinquent children brought before
the juvenile courts of Chicago in year, 2,340
of them were from foregn-born parents. These
parents know so little of America and it's Ian
guage their children are able constantly to de-
ceive them. Thus, when restraints of the old
home swept away and while the morality of
the new is not acquired, the immigrant child be-
comes a moral bedouin living on the debateabe
ground between the conventions of Europe and
the righteousness of America.
Owing to the conditions in which they live
and the strain under which they labor, many of
these aliens become insane. There were two
and one-half times many foreign-born insane
in New York state in 1911 as native born. On
this Prof. Ross makes rather suggestive COM
ment:
In view of the fact that every year New
York cares for $4,000 foreign-born insane at a
cost of $3,500,000 and that the states sad har-
vest of demented immigrants during the single
year 1911 will cost about $8,OOOOOO before they
die discharged, there is some offset to be
made to the profits drawn from the immigrants
by the transporting companies, landlords, real
estate men, employees, contractors, brewers and
liquor dealers of the state"
The public school was the melting pot in
which foreign elements were rendered out of
immigrants but these southeast
erners won't go to the public schools. They
herd in parochial institutions under foreign
and thus escape their one chance
of becoming Americanized. "The foreign speech
school, while it binds the young to their parents
to their people, and to the old country, cuts them
off from America
Prof. Ross closes by remarking that chose
optinists who imagine that assimilation of the
immigrants is proceeding unhindered are living
in fools paradise" remark that will be echoed
by the majority of those who read this amazing
indictment of our immigration policy, or, had we
not rather say, lack of policy!