Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-01-15

That forces the steamship companies to
maintain examiners on the other side
and thus secures a double examination.
To understand why a limited restriction
Of emigration is desirable, it is necessary
To- inquire further into the difference be-
tween the two types of immigrants al
ready suggested and to follow them after
they enter this country. Where do they
go and what do they do? Between 1900 and
1910 we admitted about 100000 immi-
grants. OF this tremendous multitude,
about 70 per cent. came from southeastern
Europe. Eighty per cent. of them stayed
I'm the territory east Of the Mississippi
river. north OF the Ohio river and north
of West Virginia. That means that they
went into the cities to live huddleI up.
OF thcs" about &c II per cent. settled in
the large cities.
Those figures imply that the overwhelm-
! Ing proportion of that horde of immi-
grants went to work in factories and in
gangs of workmen, that they avoided the
| farms. OF one million Italians, IS per
cent. went into cities or ,233.0oO Austro-
/ 1unGarians - per cent went into cities
! OF $4,000 Russians 81 per cent. went into
cities. OF Roumanans 80 per cent. set
| tied into cities, and OF the Turks Sc pei
! cent.
That these immigrants go to the cities
implies that they live in clans Of their
own race. speak their own language, send
their money home and plan to return tC
Europe sooner or later That immigrant,
overstock the market for unskilled labor
with the result that work becomes inter
militant instead OF steady. Senator Dill
| 'iugham proved by extensive statistic!
showing that in all the great industrie!
4 over the country men were being laid of
/ during part of the year, and that thes,
mon were the immigrants from south
eastern Europe. They create centres OF
discomfort and anarchy. In the CITY Of
Lawrence only u per cent. had foreign
born parents, and when the strike cam,
It was the immigrants Of the new typ,
| who started the violence.
| And yet il is impossible to get thes
men to come out into the country wher'
| there is a dearth of labor. During tn
Lawrence strike a friend Of Senator Dill
lingham's did everything possible to ge
some of the hundreds of idle men there t,
come up to Waterbury to worn on a con
tract job, and was unable 10 get a sinRl
man. This is only characteristic of tn
whole situation. They will not separat
or do other work
One hundred and forty-one million dol
lars were sent abroad by lmmigran
banks alone in 1907. Eighty-six per cent
, are without wives, this means that the
live unreasonably cheap and do not in
, tend to stay 1t also means that they ar
isolated from our system for when
, man has a family the schools of thi
country begin with his children and max
, them Americans and so gradually dra'
him 20 US.
, Senator Dillingham; explained CAREFUL
\ that the lteracy test was not grounde
n in any belief that the man who coul
: read and write was n better man than tn
n less fortunate one who could not. II
N showed that the nations Of southern Eu
rope whose immigrants were causing tn
n trouble, had not educated their peopl
n while the countries Of northern Europ
I had done so to a remarkable extent. TIL
i litcracy test would keep out the INN
E grants whom 1t is desirable to keep on
q and let in the others.