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But more important are facts from an official report like that of Chief Magistrate Wahles concerning the criminal prosecutions in the city of New York for 1905. He says that there was an increase for the year of 18.388 arraignments (25 per cent). and that all of this increase were southeast Europeans. We have undertaken to show that the question of immigration is a vital pressing question and that we must face it. We have undertaken to show that on account of the greed of the steamship companies and other subagencies throughout Europe the greater percentage of the immigrants coming to our shores is of persons steeped in degradation and in the lowest intellectual and physical class. What will be the effect of this admixture of the lowest types of humanity with the AngloSaxon race is a question that ought to concern all who are proud of our AngloSaxon lineage and of our achievements in the past. That our type of national character is in serious danger from the interbreeding of native and alien stocks in the country has been affirmed on numerous occasions and by those whose opinions we should heed.