Our forests are almost gone and our public domain is exhausted. The South has prospered marvelously and bids fair to make even more rapid strides. This has been accomplished without the aid of such immigration as that which now comes to our principal ports. Without them our white civilization has been maintained. and I. for one. am willing to deal with the future without their aid. Statistics are always tiresome and dull reading. but at the risk of being tiresome and prolix I must quote a few figures for our information. As to the statistics on crime. pauperism. and insanity according to the census of 1890 (part 2. pages 169. 174. 182). comparing an equal number of foreign element and the native element. we find that the foreigners furnished one and onehalf times as many criminals and two and onethird times as many insane. and three times as many paupers. When it comes to the children of nativeborn parentage and foreignborn parentage. those of foreign parentage are found to be three times as criminal as those of the native parentage. According to the annual report of the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration for 1904. the foreign born in all the public institutions of the United States constitute 28 per cent. whereas there were but about 10.000.000 foreignborn persons out of a population of 80.000.000 of people. His report also shows that there were 44.985 alien inmates of penal. reformatory. and charitable institutions in the United States. 64 per cent of whom were Slavic. Iberic. or Mediterranean races. and that out of the 800 confined for murder 253 were Italians. and of 373 confined for attempt of murder 139 were Italians.
Identified stereotypes
Foreigners are associated with crime, insanity, and pauperism.