Speech #620137314

The immigration we received more largely down to 1882 came from northern EuropeEngland. Ireland. Scotland. the Scandinavian countries. Germany. and other sections of northIwestern Europe. We call that the old immigration. That which we term the new immigration has come since 1882. it has been increasingly large from southeastern Europe. In the last 10 or 12 years more than 70 per cent of those admitted have come from those countries. While the average rate of illiteracy among all immigrants is about 26 per cent of the whole. the rate among those of the new immigration is 35u per cent. In some nationalities the percentage of illiteracy is much higher than the average. Among the Port uguese.