The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-15

In recent article James J. Dovis, Secretary of Labor. gives. some startling facts revealed by the last census. It is worth the careful and prayerful consideration of every American who loves his country; who cherishes the ideals and genius of our civilization. It is shocking ln its revelations. Secretary Davis says ih part: The 1920 census disclosed a total white population of o4,o2o,oI5, which it classified as follows:
 Native parents-both born
 here -----------.-------- 5o,42l,oo/ Foreign parentage = both
 parents born abroad I5,6o4,53o Mixed parentage-one par
 ent born abroad ---------------- 6,ooI,oo5 Foreign born ----------------,------ I.3,7I2,754 In other words, o6,3o8,o58 of our population were linked either in the present generation or the last gen. eration with a foreign land. The figures are even more striking when they are confined to our urban, or city, population, which the census classified thus:
 Native parentage ------24,55 55o,Z29 Foreign parentage -----------II Il ,3o4,o Mixed parentage -------------- 4,4oI 400 .. According to these figures we have today in our cities more people who are either foreign born or of foreign parentage than we have of native percentage That IS, 26,o43,355 ot the population of our cities are either foreign born or the sons and daugh- ters of foreign-born parents.
 These are official census figures. They indicate that we have in the United States today nearly I4,ooo,oo foreign born. Of this number about one-half become naturalized Amer ican citizens With the remainder and with those who are yearly. com ing to our shores lies our problem.
 Is 1t not time to close the doors, or at least restrict very materially the number of immigrants coming Tn here, save of. the Nordic races, ot similar stock with the founders of this republic, which take up with and as simulate more thoroughly the spirit of this government and its ideals Those are, in fact, of the same racial type-the British, Danish, North Ger man and Scandinavian peoples who first moved by way of Britain in an cient days, and imposed their civil ization upon the prehistoric stock of the British Isles? They brought tht rudiments of government, ot Jury trial, of democracy, to Britain; they are indeed the same generic people commonly referred to as Anglo-Sax- ons. With them there is never any difficulty in this country They merge in naturally, and of course the figures quoted by MT. Davis include some millions of these. There car be an allowance made for these peo D1ec and sill the total Is appalling Continuing his exposition, the sec retary of labor says:
 Recent investigators have dis closed a high rate of what they cal social inadequacy among the torelgi born in America-a rate much h1ghe than that of our whole population In plain words, this means that ther' are more foreign born in our Ja1ls penitentiaries, insane asylums, home for the feeble minded, the deaf, duml and the blind, in proportion to tf foreign-born population than ther are of native-born stock.
 These figures of investigators wh have gone into this matter are trul astounding. They indicate that tn taxpayers of America in the var1ou states are paying 7.63 per. cent Q their total tax bills to maintain IT stitutions to care for the socially IT adequate of foreign stock. A recen survey found that A per cent. of a the inmates of such institutions Wer foreign born or of forelgn-born e mixed parentage The people ot tn state of New oYrk are now seekln to initiate a movement to have tn state collect from the Federal gov ernment the sum of $I7,4oo,ooo wh1c