For the years following the figures are: Total. Austria- Per Italy. er Russia. Per Hungary. cent . cent. 1903 ------------ 857.000 203.011 24 230.622 27 133.093 15.83 1904 ----------- 812.870 177.150 21.8 193.296 23.78 145.141 17.85 1905 ------------1 I.026.49 275.693 20.85 221.479 21.57 13l.817 18 103 ---------- 1.100.735 265.138 21.1 273.120 25 215.05 19.6 1907 ............ 1.285.349 338.452 26.33 285.731 22.20 258.913 20.15 This leaves but 31.32 per cent for all the other nations of Europe. and from this is still to be deducted whatever is to be credited to the Slav immigration that comes from the Danube principalities and must largely be counted as about equal to the lower grade of Hungarian immigrants. From Scandinavia and Germany. whence we have always drawn a large proportion of our most desirable inmnigratts. there has been a material decrease in numbers since 1903. though Great Britain has increased her quota beginning with that year. Figures talk. Mr. Chairman. and none more loudly and eloquently than those I have just given. They tell us that we are getting by far the larger part of our immigrants in the last five years. if not for some time before that. from the least desirable populations of Europe. and they will come in ever increasing numbers unless we devise some means to keep then) out. Kept out they ought to be. for they belong to that class to whom I have already referredthe class that never assimilates. that never imbibes the true American spirit. that never furnishes good American citizens. Indeed. sir. within the last few months we have witnessed a spectacle which proves that to thousands of these people this country means nothing more than a temporary stamping ground. where. by working at wages far below those for which our American workingman can be had. and living as no selfrespecting American can or will live. they call accumulate a few hundred dollars and return to their native heaths. there to live In idleness and comparative luxury until their store is exhausted. when they repeat the experiment.
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Immigrants from certain European countries are described as undesirable, unassimilable, and only interested in exploiting the country for financial gain before returning home.