Speech #550032342

New York. New Jersey. and Pennsylvania (North Atlantic division). In 1895. 65 per cent of our immigration settled in three States. namely. Massachusetts. New York. and Pennsylvania. and 58.40 per cent settled in New York and Pennsylvania. So you see how you got your big Republican majority last year in the States named. and it is easy to see that there is too much * labor being imported. and that something ought to be done. By the last census. 26 per cent of the white prisoners confined in jails are persons of foreign birth. The total number of convicts in our penitentiaries whose birthplace is known is 28.440. composed of 13.715 native born and 14.725 foreign born. showing more than onehalf of all our white convicts to be of foreign birth. Our charitable institutions contained 69.962 inmates. of which 24 per cent was of foreign birth. Our poorhouses contained 53.696. of which number 27.648 were born in foreign countries. or a little over 51 per cent. In a report made to the House in the second session of the Fiftieth Congress by Mr. Ford. from the Select Committee on Investigation of Foreign Immigration. we find the testimony of Dr. Hoyt. for twenty years connected with the board of charities and corrections in the city of New York. Here is what he said: That -very charitable institution in the State of New York is now not only filled with occupants. but overflowing. and that the State annually expends in taking care of paupers. insane persons. etc.. $20.000.000. and that this condition of affairs is largely due to improper immigration. Free trade in labor. high protective tariff on the products of labor! I want to know how much longer you Republicans are going to be able to fool these poor devils and get them to vote your way.