A terrible condition is stated in the United Hebrew Charities report of 1901: A condition of chronic poverty is developing in the Jewish comnininity of New York that is appalling in its immensity. The report states that of the applicants asking the society for assistance 45 per cent. "representing between t0 000 and 25.000 human beings. have been in tle United States over five years. have been given the opportunities for economic and industrial improvement which the country affords. yet. notwithstanding all this. have not managed to reach a position of economic independence." The report estimates that "from 75.000 to 100.000 members of the New York Jewish community are unable to support themselves with the immediate necessities of life. and for this reason are depdndent in some form or other upon the public purse." Mr. Chairman. the ratio of paupers that come from those countries and have to be deported is very large. I will not weary the House with statistics. I have them here. and I will publish them in my remarks. They substantiate the statements that I make. The number of immigrants that have to be deported is very large from this section. but the great evil that is inflicted upon this country by those that come from southern Europe is that they remain almost entirely in the cities. They do not go out and occupy the farm lands. and when we know that in our own country. according to the reports of the census. the tendency is for people in the country to migrate toward the cities. you have got a double influx pouring into those thickly populated centers which certainly does not tend to the welfare of our people. I have collected some statistics from the State of New York which are official and which I believe to be correct.
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