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3h 5 1 . fr it A L HE DAILY NEWg fND OBSERVER; SITNDAT MORNIXG, (JUNE 10, t90 r v. Al 4 MVS he Simmons on 4 Continued ern and southern races of' Europe has Leen rapidly Increasing. ' llif broad fact. then. Is that about wo-mirdSx or all the immigration to hi 3 county today and during recent mrs hM come from southern 'and i-astern Europe, made up largely of) lreks,. Poles.- Hungarians. Italians. Portugese, Syrian. Magyars, etc. They jari a different people rrom those who Sate to-day In the forefront of world progreaa. They belong, in the main, jto av different civilization ' from' that represented by, the Anjflo-Saxon race. jThelr. surroundings. In the main, have nt been calculated to train-or tit them dor the standard- of citizenship which '.'obtained In this country, and' which w must maintain if . we-are - to- safe guard and perpetuate our free Insitu-tlon- . in the main they are unfitted not only by heredity and training for the high duties and -responsibilities ,of American cltlmenshlp, but the majority or them are so Ignorant, hot to say sints tir, as to preclude the hope of their becoming gbod and deslraole citizens lri the: future. . f - ,f I wbh to direct the attention !of the Senate, briefly, to the startling percent age -of illiteracy among that part of the immigration to this, country from the countries of .southern and eastern Europe. Out of l.02C.00S Immigrants who came . to this . country - last , year. 230,382 could neither read nor write. I! have not the statistics showing the relative percentage of ignorance be tiveen Immigrants from northern and " western Europe and immigrants from Southern' and eastern Europe for the year 105. but I have a table here. which I have' found - in the very val- uable book on immigration .recently published by Mr. Prescotf F. 'Hall, showing - the Illiteracy of Immigrants $t the ' different races . 'contributing hore than 2,000 tmnllgrant each dur ing years lSOJ. 1903; and 1904; y The average Illiteracy, as shown by is table, among -these groups taken , from southern and eastern Europe was I in 1904 42.6 per cent, hut taking the Immigrants from the countries of the i Sections ; of - Europe from which- the I bulk" of Immigration came the rate of j Illiteracy ; Is much higher than this general average. : One ' hundred and 1 from . southern Italy. . 102.000 " were i JPoles.' 14.000 Rnthenlans 4 6.000 Mas:- Jjars. 12,000 Greeks, etc. The rate of illiteracy of immigrants from southern Italy in' 1904 was B8.8 pe- jjcent; of Polish Immigrants, " S6.1; of i Greek Immigrants. 23. ti; of Kuthenlan I immigrants 68.8. Without going furth- rr. Air. rirriurui, ii.niti aiiear these statistics that the, greater P?rt of t the immense mass of v Ignorance " h.lch is being annually dumped Into this country is represented j f by tmmi Matron of a' few nationalities, coming chiefly from eastern Europe.' ' f j - The: uercentaae of Illiteracy In these! groups of Immigrants from northern I and western -Europe in 1904 .was '4.4 per cent: in 1903. S.9 per cent; In 1904. 4 per cent, while the percentage of 11-J literacy of those - from southern and easterit Europe In 19j2 was44. 3: in 025. of which 6.734 wore In Cook county (Chicago). In Louisiana. 7, ?6?.f of which .3.622 were In Orleans ruuniy (Nw Orleans). In California. 1903, 39.7 per cent; in 1904, 42.6 per cent. .1 have a table here showing the, ntimber of iljlteratea among the Ital- I -' J. VAN LINDLEY, ....... . tf.... T"-n . r. - T - " r ' ' -.. T" . ' " ' " r i "If "'- ; . "7" T-" "7 T . Til - ' i " . ; v.,;.'..,. - . . :-. . . . ''. .'.",'-. ;'"- 5-J-.5-rv- v nv.-s- . ' -. - ' . i : - ; ..... .; . ... ! ' Ml I ' 'i- : i . I ' - J. . t- -. :---- : ,v-'-'vv..-,...-vi vtrt -r-----,v- ... .,-.;..... ' j.'i - '.' - ,. , .:-'-f,- '.'! ' I. & I ' I ' i I - Iji-" ' "' ' - ' - - '. -, , " ( CZ) Ql TQ tfr UZ'D n D IT JL Da 0 r .': :Mut-,'Mcic$.' Sell: as : Wg1 Ajbjteil m M fcMi ' V: H '! Wtl life!. Scliig in . tbc Stltt : of isdutli iGalila' Over : ; .' . - ' . f. i - i - . - ' pi i . - . .It. . - if i ' :. v r 7 ' ' ' I -" Tic Immigration. (, from Pare One.).' j . ' '. : . i - : lans. Poles, Syrians,; and Ruthenlans which arrived j In New York during the year 1901. It, appears from this table, taken from the book byi Hall, to which I -have before : referred, that of the southern?-Italtans-2 per cent bf the males and 74: per cent of the females who arrived -in that' city in that year did not know a letter In the book; of the Polep- so arriving that 36 per cent of the males j and 4 8 iter cent of the females were I Illiterate; of the Lithua. nians it! was 1 found that 66 per cent of the male and 78 per cent of the females fwerej utterly uneducated, atod of the Syrians I per cent of the males and 81 per eent .of the femals could not read and write. f Mr. President, this 1 the character of immigrants who am coming to our country at this time, or at least 66 2-3 per cent of. the Immigration that is flowing Into this country today Is made up of this class of people. Mr. President. 1 do not want to be understood as meaning' that an unedu cated man an unlettered man may not. under certain circumstances and conditions, make a good ' citizen; that he .may not' make, in some cases, among the best of citizens. I know, as a matter of fact coming, within my own knowledge and experience, that some of the' best citizens In this coun. try; certainly some of; the best in my State, some of the- thriftiest,- somei of the most honest, pome of the most ln- telligerrt. If you please, are men who do not f know a-letter In the book.- It is not true of -an-American that be cause he happens' to be ' unlettered he is ignorant. Happily under our' sys tem -of ; government, with; our churches open to all,' with our courts, with our hustings discussions and debates, with the absence f class distinctions, bring ing the - unlettered man in constant contact and -association with the best intelligence of his community, by. as sociation and absorption, the Ameri can, citizen. : without being educated, without school advantages, becomes an Intelligent citizen, not only capable of the highest thrift.' but Capable of un derstanding ; the duties and responsi bilities and of exercising the privileges of. citizenship In a cciunbry where the people govern. ? . But, Mr. President; these Illiterates coming to. us from southern Italy, from Poland., and parts of Austria-Hungary, these Ignorant Syr lans Poles, and Ar menians that are pouring In upon us year Rafter year, have : been 'brought up under no such environments, with no such advantages. From the.' begin ning ofnhelr Uvea up to the time they come to these shores their associations have ! been those of ignorance; their surroundings have been such that they could not by association and absorp tlon acquire sufficient knowledge or understanding to become in virtue of character and intelligence good and competent citizens of a republic whew every man is a sovereign. Coming to us : as tney do. steeped in ignorat.ee. without any conception of the prlr.cl pies of liberty or of freedom, without any: knowledge of the principles of self-government, in niany Instances with their1 becloudedT minds and dov praved - hearts filled f with hatred to ward, all law -and government, tV.ey gain 'nothtng l y way of absorption In that knowledge which goes towar-1 making good and useful; cltlzenfhU'- Theyigaiw nothing after acrlvlng by ! ' '. President,. r.. . .--v s ' I' .... 1. ';.-;, , .: 1 1 -. fil . - ;;-.' . i. .. -. : r . - v. - . r - - - 1 vrr'-s- ii- : oil n- i association and contact with our peo ple, because they do not. like the li.i- migrants from northern and western Europe, ;dlstrtbute themselves amon ! our people, but huddled together In 'mining or railroad , camps or In the slums of the great I cities, and work ing, vwhen engaged In regula,,- employ ment, under the padrone system. the :;eldom l-Urn to unlerUnil or sp-ak our language, or only o far I as mny be necessary to communicate their wants or as may be Indispensable In the business employment or traftlc in which they may be engaged. I re peat, living after they arrive here, largely In the slums of the great cities, or working In the railroad camps, or huddledj together In the great facto ries generally under the padrone sys tem, thev remain to the end of their lives, if I they .remain here that long, in a state; of dense Ignorance, the fires of hatred toward law and order kln dled In lithe wretched environment of their oliU home is never extinguished "ands they form the nucleus under the leadership and incitement of a wicked but higher Intelligence of the disorders and -riots, which are becoming a dis grace to our civilization and a handi cap to our Industrial progress and de velopment. Mr. President, in this connection I want to! read a short extract that ap peared a few days ago In an editorial In the lVashlngton Post on this sub ject. It was an editorial intended 10 warn the South, in their eagerness !o secure labor to supply the demand which at present exists In that section. agaln.t it lie class of immlgi -atlon whion I have just been discussing and fecbty attempting to describe. It Is as fo. lows; . j 1 Tlierc Is ' no better agricultural la boring ciasM u Um world tlutu the real J .at In peasantry of Italy ami Spain, but; tlicy are not gryatlv Riven to emi gration and we mco very few of tlwm In Im Vnltel NtateHv T1ie great bulk of tlw jso-cnllcil MIialianx" wlio ootnc over - lieiv to ctit throat, thnnv dyna mite; mihI roiMlutt labor riot aiul as a.v.l nation fratonUlUn ar nothing niorr- tluui Um ilerti"rie prtgeny of the Asiatic liounls wlikHi. long crn turiffl ago. overran Hip hImmvk of tlie Mediterranean nd were the pirates, the qxllators. ami tlie ntercenaiies of Uioho hlootly ariH. Tlicy have taken tlx latig-uaee of tlte ciMintrles upon wIiohc ;Mea hoards i liey swarm, ImttlH') nre as tllncrent la iiatnre. In prlmi pleM, In IdcalM -in all etentla quall tlet rrom the real people as black Is from white, or as wleketlncMS Is from virtue.: Here ami there. In certain lo cal I ties, one Hud a colony of genuine Italian and Is ImnrcsMtl wltli their Industry, their tlirtrt. their law-ahM-Imc tent ikhs. ami their ainiablo1ls. o4tioti. Tlie. Itowevcr, ooiistltute but n drop in the trvajii oT the linml dial ion we rntte In tin name of Italy. ; lliey are a vla.H not prune to leave llitir iMMiies. Nliie-tentlw of tlx UrT ran antiy that tlexiMl? upon th's Klior-s:ore tlu Han of t piiM-nklan ttirse. 'exiMHllted fervently i by our great nml koetl rrtriMls of the Qulriiuil, 1h nit mil)- im anxious to le rid of them. The1 Post further says it '"Is not es pecially concerned In the troubles of the great northern corioratlons that deliberately encourage this sinister and vicious Immigration merely in order to i.'-peed - their fight against organized labor,' but from the South. In whose welfare It IV profoundly Interested. It would, if possible avert this blight. The Pot continues: It Is ot onlr that we ku:w tlie licjrro to lie the het. tlie mo-t ralthful. ami thlrable kilMircr for tin South: We Want a rgia. A IK OF It is also tliat we Would;keen the sec tion free frou thi turtnoll the - an arc hy. ami the . Htia .sa,, which will surely folknvlittgecrumulatlolis of tlie human raige jshlpnetl from mini hem Kuroie U3M linetl In tliat as yet uiiMlMmei'-J.rk:T!')r South Is the aitotnted Mrongtitd oi the free lu siiuitlons for Mliiti tmr forefathers 4u'd tliclr blotal. rt STis nurse aiul tdili'kl lt against th Inlur of trtbula- ". i pi'. Again, I have iheref a statement coming from one f ou officials, Mr. lirauu. who was 4nt broad by our own gyvernmeut qrshot time ago to Investigate quest iojlis growing out of immigration to t It l$-country and to re port the condltioiiHcih fcireign countries with reference to fdgrtlon to Amer ica, to aid usjn tlf;ena;tment of suit able and wise laws indregulatlons, iu the effect that -jfr i In Mctrral of tint urtitMaii count rh s It is the custom U ' prcjitLse convlctcti eriniiiwils lnuiiunly. frx4n Hiiiisluneiit If they will Inuiiiivate go thU country or ir: thflr rclatt) Will send them llM'r'-! 5fl If I know the Senator rom Vermont (Mr. lllliiKliain KiAi hoifjas this bill in charge, t-ited sticQsttci yesterday to show that u large fpr1 ogm something over per cental believe of the Immigration t uu'i omw here comes with ft. definite lolal4onn view. That may be true, Mr. H-sUiicnt. but If you take the statisticnyoufv ill find tha. C5.3 per cent of Tltem Sast year, came -Mu t o unite uruiM at set tling in the Statefi! York, which nx'hnt o them tlvsi bit or .-cw y?rk, r In the State ofjermjjylvanla. which meant to them tnt citrs of Pittsburg or Philadelphia; s.1irli Massachusetts, which meant to thfm ihe. city of Bos ton; jor Illinois, wHlcrfpneant to them Chicago; for the! Ixiiojaiit portion of the.?e Immigrant., undmany of them not altogether Igfirara.. ceme here wlthitiut having feirdof any part of the tjnlted State;xct a few of Its great cities. Whi-i th??y land and are asked as to theK'denatlon, having heard only of Nm fYoCk where friends who Ihave precetle thjm are. they an swer giving, their ''designation as New Yrk. or thone wa haVe only heard of Boston through vhHr friends or klns Ifeople Kay they tftre filng to Boston; those whose frlejldsj .are in Philadel phia! say they a'! gong to Phlladeli phia; That is aftha.lt means. Mr. President. In nioSrf instfinces they hrve heard of no otrr places except the places where sontjof their people'have gon4 and are re.9tfing; " iii cormectloiij Jfttth he present Im migration to th(ijouury as compared with that of twity hd thirty year. ago,' two facts ar 'Specially noticeable: First, the disposition that part of this,1 Inrvmlgratloni-omlpg from north ern and westenip'Huruipe to distribute themselves throufjhouCrlhe country. These sturdy o?mi envrpri.ing immi grants wnen inerarrwge in mis coun try act Just like tlif iri tleeessors have done from the binnlfeig of the settle, meiit of this coiitkit y. They i come, ai I said before, ji? becime citizens of this- country: tlf coe to slay and to ralse ; tlielr ctijldre&i here, and as soon an they laniJrUpoi&our shores they begin to dtsrlbu&'Uhenjselves through out; this countrxi! Soie of them go Into manufact urliik; sone of them Into mining; some o4-itheni into farming; but! they distribute .'themselves. But tha( Is not tru4fiMr; president, with respect to the pjjulattqm coming he.-e from southern faHi cistern Europe, espeelallv the lktlh.?f?the. Pole, and th.-i Hungarian. &S i:Ktics will show, those people hai a1 nTgeneral thing. Few Sraid . NORTH ?:Vtrf .31 sO"B -TTW Li in to In V !i. - ?t . .. pi : . confined themselves j largely !to the 'At j lantlc seaboard, and to a ivery few cities upon the Atlantic seaboard a that. The second specially noticeable ract with reference; to this! immlgra tlon is the strong tendency! of immi grants rrom southern and easteir KUrope to! comcreKate in the eltie And this characteristic 'is stronger in i hi? iiiueriue imrTion man tne more mf telligent portion of these newcomers I U'he per, cent of total tmmlgratiofi destined for the four States of lilinoi. Massachusetts. New York, and Penie-t-ylvpnla In the year 180& was 65 per cent of the total immigration to-thlP country In that year. and. they settlejd chiefly in! the great cities which . aife located In these States. v j - j I find a very pertinent comment on this Immigration in the book to which I . have before referred eiitd- I Ly Mr. Prescott F. Hall. M.IHall s?ay: I ne oca i cotigcsiion or tne iimiiob- alltics : coming to us lit tlie karcKt iiuiiiIm rv . lu recent years i aiHHhCr significant feature of Immigration din. trlhutioiu Tliat tlris congestion N in I creasing is shown hy tlie following ia . hie fif the Increase of native of te- taiu nationalities from 1890 to 1O0O In the cvera gtograliical division: S JZ . fc" A 08- r. i 22.1 c a 1j ,7 flungar Italy . Poland i 7. 1.2 1.9 1.7 1.2 77.4 59.1 1 1.0 37.3 4.6 1.2 5 1 7 I "" From this table It appears that tine North Atlantic State thus receiMed'i.. r!ltr0 7M tn New York, ami BS approximately three-fourths of the fa- I'lilattelpliui. J ,J ,crease of Hungarians and Italians. jas .Tjif nronortlon In AvlUcli the liter. jwell as nearly three-fifths of the Pofcs, illiterate nationalities contrlb- IS T!,0 V'ff ,octeiVv Y:rrkiute ui the slniu population Is shown city. Philadelphia. Brooklyn. Bostlm. , . &niiM4ns' tabW ' ' These races. Mr. IVesldnt. as I said. before do not distribute ;themBelves.tria-Huh the ooutn or tne rarms or tne Wfett. ' jor the Southern States, acting, .lu my 'Judgment, upon a faise and misguided these people .to become, jagrlcultiiial laborers and ultimately good , citizen. ...... . V . . . . . .......... - - m have made an earnest effort to equre I j mucin iiiiiiugi.aiiuU uui mill 1 1 jv j Italian Immigration; but with the lex r.ir.:' j:..s:: z 'zm'' Tr:r"T . j.."iBaitiroire of the country, .one of the- two or t Hre. only great cities we have in th. Sh luth and, to a limited extent Texas. the ISouth nag been unsuccessful in its) ef forts to induce these people to go enter Into the agricultural pursuits of that section of the country I have here another very signifl cai.t table,' winch i wish to read, it table showing that in 1890,out of a 4 7.- "4U persons in. this count ly bor 1.1 I Poland about 9.0'iu were living inj Hhe i-itiea of New York and Brooklyn sr.l iibout 9.uu in the city of .Buffalo of a total PolUli population In State .f New York of 22.718. So Mut the n.ir the whole of the Poll di population that State, with the exception of a lie over '4.00t. lived In the clthfi i of 6. V. V-i U- itrniiklvn nn rl Ttii(Tii ; There were In the' same year.f Mi . in.ei.iani in hu ! 1 1 1 1 nniai X . S78 ferstins of Polish birth. Of that number 2f..33 l'lvtul In the cltk- of Chicago. It lioivs that the rama w-s true of the Polish population of Penn- fvUiiiit.t nf Wixr-riii.-tin mi.l of Mlehi- fU ft nd that more than H0 per cetr ho.se of all persons of Polish btj-th in Kroat Slates live; tn their bit? citi. In 1890there were 1K2;5S0 Italians In this t-ountr-.! Of-these! there we:o teprttiltjiiiFlis -! 1 . .. ' . 1 -I I " - ;l, i ; -j i v 4!- a t j -i . Ailllllf- CAROLINA. n Massachusetts 8.066, -and 4.799 in. 5uffolkdUnty (Boston). In Xew. York. 14,141. Sofl. which- 39,951 were in'New (1 14 1 York epiinty (city -of New York); Klngs bounty (Brooklyn), ,9, in Pennsyrv4nia, 24.662. of which 6.7.99 Were in " Philadelphia county; Aile- gheny county (Pittsburg). 8,498. In New Jersey, 12.989. of . which were inf Ksex county: IIudson;couifiy (Jersey! City ), 3.039. In Illinois. 8.- 035. o 'which 5734 were in .Cook countv.l (Chicago.) In lAuilana ; 7.- 767 of hvhich 3.622 were in Orleans county.! CNew Orleans), in cauiorn a ' 15.495 fof which 5,212 were in San Tancb4M-" . j This lelement of the i nationalities bf j which J jam now speaking .not only gravitates to the great cities of which i havefsboken.and a few others, but they inaSe, up largely what is known as the Hum .population : of these cities j t haveihere tneseventn r?peciai. lie- port off tie United" States Commission er of Labor, for 184. in wnicn tne in Mas Suffolk stateuiirt Is madei . ,. .. Twenty-five years, ago North Caro- , vTliat. tlM proportion of tliose . of Una was .a distinctively agricultural forcignj birth or parentage to tlie total state. Nearly her entire population population in live Kluma of Baltimore were .engaged In agriculture. At that nas 7f jlperf'ceut.'-in Chicago 90 per; period., with an area of 52,000 square cent, in New York 90 er cent, aiul miles, ;ve had a - population of n!y la liiUUielliia. HI. per cent., The about .1,400.000, manifestly an lnada-fig-ures for-. Ue foreign tiorn alone are quale population for so large an area. corrcpuulinly striking. . It appcrs even when nearly all the .people wet- from (le same . report (pp. 160-163) engaged In -agriculture. ... -Today ther tliat of icverys-100-aliens -40 were.Hlit-i are.. n, North Carolina something over erate fhUhe slums of. Baltimore, 47 .in itincaRo 9t n Jiorifc, aou .7 . IlilaU fplila. ai i-iyumcipiiia. aiia uuii m crrjb ui Itliese illiterate .aliens there were v7 nuiioa inf!, t-nt in? nm in Raltlmore. 77 I now' ke&d that part of theso tables referrmfe to the Immigrants from Aus- igary. Italy. Poland.-and Rus- elttia. tlie Illiterates of which ! races, i eonterid? O ught to be ' excluded from rv because as a rule they, this coo ht can not become good citizens of the Republic!; .can not attain to the meas- ure and I standard of citizenship under a selfigdvernlng system like ours: - Pec cent of Per cent of tr.fsl nor., . slum non- ulatlon. ulatlon. 1.97 6.41 9.45 1.95 i 12.72 44.44 New fYork . Philaaeiphla 51.11 50.28 i. - - ' I nofcr read from the same tables uuliPart referring to immigrant from nc w ...... ; ow..., - i . and eundlnavia: ; Par. cent of Per cent or total pop-, smm pop- f ! -"S i Baltiihore ChlcaKj . New 'York ulatlon. ulatlon. 27.29 13.52 30.70 30.73 10.64 S.64 8.44 Philadelphia So IK it vlit be seen. Mr President, 'erkm iAA tahiM thai ftiithast'm i of Kuropei furnishes three times as many with sufficient intelligence and cha . ut. inhabifints sjt northwestern Eurone acter and disposition to understand to . trio- slums of Baltimore, nineteen ItimefclH many to the slums of .New Yorkl itwenty times as many the !liiml nr fhlmrrt sOifl stpvent v-one 1 tlmesj ks many to the slums of Phlla- delptttii". r j lplilr. - r ' - Mii Spresident. I submit that ah e!e- endo largely Ignorant as that reo- enled by Russian. Italian. Po-l-h. ment re'til and i Austro-iiungarian immigranon, tha.t hn element which, when it comes to trfisr country, seeks no' the; pen air ajia the open country.but the cUies. and drifts Into the clumand const I- 03ifiels: to Wwt 1 1 . TN rvr GEO. A.: tiers. i vicious and everj- great proper ele- ment for us to invite and to encour- age to come. to our shores and to.en- ter into ourbody politic. 1 1 ( I am going to detain the Senate but a, moment longer, 1- recognize the fact that we have been now for two days upon XMa bill and that the Seoat'3 lis impatient to have a vote, but before 1 conclude I want to say Just a few words about 'this question -in connec- tlon with conditions which exist today in tne ooutjt. it has been said, and said truthfully, that throe-hout the South today there Is g;- jt scarcity 'of laboit. .'.-In my own Strfte-and 1 think conditions there' are typical of condi- tlons in nearly every other State in the South there Is what 1 mle-Kr nron- erly. terra .a. iu.uor laratne." That nas been brought about by: the phenome nai ueveiopment wnicn has taken Place Jn that , State during the last twenty- rive years. . i 7,500 separate and distinct .manufac- luring . estaoiisnmenis, giving smpmy nienv1 ip over iuu,uu. laoorers, wnicn : represents a; population of . between haa ia aaa 'rlv. all nf thu nrmv nf Am as I say a population of about 400.- OOO. came from the farms, while thera has been practically no accessions ta, this populations to supply this drain except that of natural Increase, i . We have had , no foreign Immlgra- tlon In North Carolina.. Lss than one. half of 1 per cent of the people of that state are oi loreagn extraction, inere went to North Carolina last year only 183 foreigners, and the average of the last twenty-five "years . is a much small. er riumber. . Nor have we had. except to a --yery slight degree, immigration from other parts of this country. So . pracucauy . ine wnoie numoer oi inesq iwu.vvw laoorerw. represeuiuiB nat lino . nr Aflfl ClCta rnU that i hav gone Into the factories, have j been drawn from , the farms; while .there have been, as . I have said be fore, n o . that- the., doors of North Carolina! are AnAn tn o nv Intelligent' n nA hnngl iti- Mn of thI a count nr who mar wish to there and. cast his. lot with Sour people. i ney are . viae open to any foreigner of the white - race who may desire to go there, just so he brings , with hJm a good character and suf- flcient Intelligence ; and' conscience to i atscharee -well . the duties, of cltlzen- ship; Just so he is willing when he veomes to become ne of our people and to make that his home, adopt our customs and na Pits, ana be assimuaiea into our population. Let him come and comprehend the principles, of our , goverfmient and to make a good citl- zen. and 6ur doors i will be opened to him; But, Mr. President. I think 1 know the people of my State -well enough to tne people or my taie -wen enougn 10 say that they would rather move along handicapped as they-are in the. devel- opment of their great resources) by in- ""w i" iH'"- lh this drain. Manifestly. Mr. Presi- dent, from these conditions there has grown up a scarcuy oi laoor not.oniy (CohtlnUed' on Page Five.) -2zzro- tutes chiefly that too often dangerous element , of - e American city, is hot a
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