Brooklyn. Syracuse. and the other large cities. and of those destined for the other States. 31. or less than 1 per cent. were bound for States west of the Mississippi River. only 11 to States south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River. while only 3 were going to the Southern States proper. Now. if our friends from Texas are not particular about the character of their immigration. then I do not think I should object to having it populated. if they insisted upon it. with these races. but the difficulty is that when we admit them to New York and Boston from the decks of our immigrant ships the statistics show absolutely that they do not go to Texas. and that they have no effect whatever in settling unoccupied territories. And this is simply illustrated. too. by the labor statistics from the special report of the United States Commissioner of Labor for 1894. That report shows that of the population of the slums of Baltimore 77 per cent were foreigners. of Chicago. 90 per cent. of New York. 95 per cent. and of Philadelphia 91 per cent were of foreign birth or parentage.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizes about the tendency of immigrants to settle in slums.