Speech #600006437

So let them come. But what about the hordes from the Orient and from the decaying races of southern Europe? During the fiscal year 1907. 1.285.349 immigrants came into the United States. which equals the total population of Mississippi. The following table will show the nativity of the immigrants that came into this country during the fiscal year ending June 80. 1907: Countries. 1907. AustriaHungary---------------------- ........ 338.452 Italy. including Sicily and Sardinia ---------------------- -------------- 85.731 Russian Empire and Finland -------......................- ----- -----28.943 Total Asia ---------------.--........----..-------- -------------40.524 France. including Corsica ---------.-.--------------- . 0.731 German Empire --------------------- -- --- 37.807 Norway ----- ------- --------------------------.-.----------.-.--- . 22.133 Ireland -------------- ------- ----- 34.530 Scotland ---------------------------------------------------------------- 19.740 Can we not at once see from this table that the decaying nations of Europe are emptying their jails and pauper houses upon our shores. and can we not further see that the best blood of Europe is rapidly ceasing to flow this way? There was a time in our history when twothirds of our immigrants came from people of our own blood in western Europe. Now. they come slowly. because they fear the evils certain to follow in the wake of this maelstrom of pauperized humanity. There is one thing I would like to impress upon some of the gentlemen who have discussed this question. and that is. that there is such a thing as too much labor.