No Aimerican can read the story of the decadence and downfall of Rome without anxiety and solicitude for their own mighty Republic. What graver problem can confront us as a people. looking to future results and reasoning upon the analogies of the experiences of other peoples. than the perpetual influx of hordes of heterogenous foreigners in to our already congested cities? The year 1906 was the bsaner year for immigration into America. there having arrived here for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1906. 1.100.735 of all classes. The largest numbers came from countries as follows: AustriaHungary ---------------------------------------265. 122 German Empire ------------------------------------------37. 561. Italy -- -7 . 120 Russian Empire -----------------------------------------215. 655 lngland -----------------------------------------------49. 491 Ireland ----------------------------------------------4. 995 .Tapan -----------------------------------------------I: 9:35 W est Indies ----------------------------------- ---------- 13.656 The distribution of these immigrants as to numerical preponderance was. in the following order: New York. Penasylvania. Illinois. Massachusetts. New Jersey. and Ohio. It is a fact that twothirds of the immigrants to this country settle In the Atlantic or Middle Western States. already thickly populated. and the proportion of foreignborn to native population in many of the cities of that section has already become startling. Hear these figures: In Fall River. Mass. the nativeborn population constitutes only 14 per cent of the entire population. while 86 per cent of it is foreign born. In Milwaukee only 17 per cent is native born and 83 per cent of it is foreign born. In New York. Chicago. Detroit. Paterson. and Cleveland only about 25 per cent of the population is native born. while threefourths is foreign born: Speaking generally. we have thirtyeight cities of over 100.000 population. Of these only eleven have a native element of over 50 per cent. And the foreign elements are not assimilative necessarily.
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Foreigners are described as a 'perpetual influx of hordes' that congest cities and are not assimilative.