Commissioner of the Bureau of Education. in the report for 1881. says that this circumstance proves " that their stay in the country is only provisional and temporary. and that they can give no hostages to fortune." Again. Mr. Eaton says. in the same report. speaking about the Chinese: "Industrious. frugal. lawabiding families are the best foundations of a state." Contrasting the importation of coolies in the direction of the excess of males above females with the "assisted" immigration and importation from Southern Europe. we find tlhatduring the last four years the excessof male Italians above females who landed upon our shores to beO6.199. while the number of male Hungarians in excess of females. in an almost comparative smaller immigration. was during the same period. 15.000. In 1880- the number of Italians of foreign birth in the United States was44.230. Atthe same ratio bf disproportion between the sexes.
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