Per Ste N cent. New York ...................................................... 315.511 31 New Jersey -------- ------------------------------------ 57. 58 5 Pennsylvana ----------------------------------- 2107.............. 210.03 20 Massachusetts ------------------------------------------- 71.150 7 Connecticut ------ : --------------------------------------------- 26.174 2 Of the remainder. 72.770 (7 per cent) went to Illinois and 49.351 (5 per cent) to Ohio. In 1904 50 per cent of the entire immigration settled In New York and ennsylvania. and in 1905 51 per cent settled in the same States. The remarkable feature in the question of distribution of the large numhers of immigrants Is that less than 10 per cent of them went to the rich agricultural States of the Northwest in either of these years or even during the year 1903. And practically none of them go to the South. I here desire to have inserted a letter which I have today received from the Immigration Restriction League. of Boston. Mass.. which shows the growing interest in this question:
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