Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-28
FEAR FOR SAFETY
OF u. S. BECAUSE
OF ALIEN INFLUX
Civic Federation Calls Atten-
tion to Percentage of For
eigners in Population.

fear for the safety of this country
Is felt by the New Jersey State Civic
Federation. because OF the increase in
population recruited from foreign
chores. This fear Is expressed In Bull
letin No. 30, issued today It deals
with teaching English and American
citizenship to aliens.
After giving statistics as TO popu-
lation, these thoughts are offered for
digestion among others:
when Athens fell. Greece perished;
when Rome became morally rotten
the empire crumbled; when Jerusalem
erucified Christ, a nation became
wanderers on the earth What will
be the future of republican institu-
tons when from sixty to eighty pei
cent Of the population of our cities
are Of foreign parentage?
THESE conditions afford the asso-
citation It's opportunity for Christian
patriotic service. We can help save
the cities now-twenty-nVe more
years Of immigration and municipal
inefficiency. and 1t may be too late.
EITHER some Caesar or Napoleon
will seize the reins Of government
with a strong hand. or (y)our re-
public will be as fearfully plunderod
and laid waste by barbarians In the
twentieth century as the Roman en-
plre was in the fifth.
SHOULD this happen, the hands on
the dial Of human liberty will swing
back 500 years"
Other Observations.
Other observations noted are:
Where does your city stand7 Since
the dawn of the twentieth century
more than 10,500.000 immigrants have
landed IN the United States, of whom
less than fifteen per cent. had fifty
dollars between them and starvation.
Where did they drift?
-Four out of every FIVE immigrants
have no trade. They swell the ranks
Of the unskilled workers in Industrial
centres.
TN the slums Of Baltimore, Chicago,
Philadelphia and New York the for
oign born and their descendants form
the following per centages: II, 80. 81
and 80, respectively, and of every 100
aliens 40. AZ. 81 and SO in these respec-
i've cities are illiterate.
1.-THE Federal immigration Commits
sion failed to find a city tenement
block occupied by native born of
native parentage. These centres of
disease, poverty and crime are
wholly tenanted by foreigners. and
the sons of immigrants reared In
American cities are twice as lewless
as the sons of native whites of native
stock. What is wrong with our hand
ling of the second generation?
= more than seven million peoples
of Slav, Latin and Asiatic blood
dwell in crowded Industrial centres.
They came from lands where democ-
racy is unknown, universal franchise
unheard of, and government is
l.
prison and Punishment. Can these
men appreciate a government, of the
people, for the people and by the
people?'"
98.13i People In Oranges.
The bulletin contains figures of
population percentages. State Sem
ator Austen Colgate has financed the
educational work in the Oranges UP
to the middle of next March, when
the work will be turned over to the
Young Mems Chr stian Association
The association will furnish one
third of the funds for the work, and
other organizations interested, two
thirds.
The 1914 population Of the Oranges
is given at 96.134 The figures for
public school pupils shows the italian
children total 1,099, one-third of the
total. There are approximately 5000
Italians among the $4,000 residents
in orange.
When the alien instruction passes
INTO the hands of the Y. NJ. c. A.
next March it will be under the gem
eral head of the Industrial depart
nsent. The international committee.
having offices in New York, will look
after the work among the aliens, as
signing the tasks to Peter Roberts,
immi grafton secretary. The general
scheme is part of a general work
being carried on throughout the
United States.
The experiment now being tried in
The Oranges, the statement an
nounces, is one of unusual signifl-
cance." The bulletin, after outlining
the Orange scheme, suggests that it
be copied elsew here. With the other
Data is statistical information from
the Y. M. C. A. on the foreigners in
America