Mr. Chairman. on that proposition I submit that the best evidence obtainable is the evidence of a lRepresentative of the gentlemans own district who served in Conguess. on whose own admission the land of the South is as yet scarcely scratched. There is no section where the immigrant has taken up an abode that has not become enriched materially. The presence of the immigrants makes of them a contributing factor to the entire community. Even- allowing that they send money home occasionally. the fact remains thlt they do bring their families here. And it is not the scum of the earth that we get here. Of the 232.000 immigrants who arrived in 1903. 197.600 were from Italy and were between the ages of 15 and 45. and the immigration commissioner of Italy made the statement that every male Italian coming here between the ages of 15 and 35 represented a loss to the Italian Government of at least $1.000 in each individual case. If he represented that loss to the Italian Government. then he represented that gain to this Government. You have no immigrant problem to disturb you in the South. and the Representatives from New York are in no wise disturbed over the immigration in New York. which they are handling to their entire satisfaction.
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Generalization that immigrants are not the 'scum of the earth'.