To the everlasting credit of the people of Breathitt County they were overwhelmingly defeated. Now. the whole burden of the remarks of the gentleman from Kentucky rested on his -allegation of what he believed to be facts. for he is an earnest man. even although he did not have much success as school commissioner in Floyd County. He thought. and thinks. that we are now in this alleged unfortunate condition because of immigration. He can have little personal knowledge of immigrants. as there are only 396 aliens. all told. in his district. There are many of us who are foreignborn in New York County. I am not myself. My ancestry dates back before 1750. so that I can speak dispassionately upon the subject. According to the census of 1900. 61.9 per cent of the people of New York City were born in foreign countries. Now. with all that number in the city. what is there to show that foreign Immigration has hurt us? I want to say for the benefit of gentlemen who think as the gentleman from Kentucky does. in regard to immigration. that they have left out of account entirely what. in my judgment. is the most important thing in regard to immigration. The original innigrant. who comes here over the age of 40. himself helps or hinders but little. It is the second generation. born of foreign. parents. that counts in the United States. and we have that generation in New York City.
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