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Let me call the gentlemans attention to this fact: The report of the Commissioner of Immigrotion says that of the Italians that came to this country last year there were 185.000 from the south of Italy. or of the Iberic bloodthat is. of the mixed blood. There are 35.000 who came from the north of Italy. of the Celtic bloodof the blood of our people. Now. when you are speaking of Italians. you must designate where they come from. because the Italian from the north of Italy is of as good blood as we are. of the same blood. of unmixed blood. that same blood that made our civilization. and there are many settlements of Italians from northern Italy that are today doing as much good and advancing as rapidly in this country as any other class of immigrants. as those who come from Scandinavia. England. Scotland.