Speech #580034263

It is a wellestablished fact that in a little over a year 580 of these became a public charge upon the almshouses of New York. It costs the State of New York $80 a head for alms to sustain a pauper. and that puts a charge on that State of $46.400 annually to support these inmates who should properly be living in the almshouses of the countries from which they have migrated. In New York almshouses there were 66.400 in the year ending September 30. 1901. and of these 37.422 were foreign born. More than onehalf of the inmates of the almshouses of the State of New York were of foreign birth and being supported at a cost to the State of $15.941.622. and this is without counting the $5.000.000 expended in the insane asylums. where almost the same ratio prevails. The value of the property of the public charitable institutions of the State of New York is $68.177.725. and at 5 per cent that represents a cost of $3.408.886. or a total of $24.350.580 that it costs the State of New York to support these people in its charitable institutions. Taking that as against the figures I have already given. it makes a cost of $12.000.000 annually to the State of New York to support these immigrants which have so recently come into the country. Surely this is a showing that should cause the people of the United States to pause and think why this refuse of Europe. these paupers. who should be a charge on their own country. should be dumped on this Republic of ours. no matter how great our resources or how rich we may be. It is a wellknown fact that a few years ago Switzerland was detected in shipping. at the expense of the State. the paupers of that Republic and landing them on our shores to be supported by us.