Speech #630132299

PercentTotal for- age of )ate enumerated. Total all Tognbor- f classes. eignborn foreignwhite. born white. 1880 ..................................... .. 91.959 26.334 28+ 1890 ...................................... 106.254 35.300 33+ 1903 ................................................. 50.151 47.078 31+ 1910 ................................................. 25 7.791 54. 758 29+ Admitted during: 1904 .............................. .............. 49.622 13.405 27+ 0310 ............................................. 60.769 1 5.523 25+ Mr. Chairman. an examination of this table tells us to go somewhere else than to the foreign immigrant for our insanity. The same is true as to the feebleminded. Feebleminded in institutions. PercentTotal al Total for- age of et eignborn foreignDate enumerated. classes. white. born white. 103 .................................................... 14.347 856 5.9 1010 ................................................... 20.731 1.247 6 Admitted during: 1904 ............................................. 2.599 182 7 1910 .............................................. 3.825 210 5.4 Even pauperism is charged to the immigrant. Let us examine the figures and see: Paitpers in almshouses. Years18o0 ----------------------------------------------- 50. 353 1860 ---------------------------------------- ------ 82. 942 1870 ------------------------------------------------ 76. 737 1880 ----sso ---------------------------------------. 66. 203 1890 ----------------------------------------------- 73.045 1904 ----------------------------------------------- 81. 764 1910 ----------------------------------------------- 84. 198 From 18S0 to 1910 I have the figures showing the number of foreignborn white paupers. In 1880 there were 22.967. or 34 per cent. In 1890 there were 27.648 foreignborn white paupers in almshouses. or 37 per cent. in 1904 there were 32.136. or 39 per cent. in 1910 there were 32.136. or 39 per cent. In 1904 there were admitted 81.412 paupers into almshouses. of whom 31.298 were foreign born. or 38 per cent. and In 1910. out of a total of 88.313 admitted. 33.353. or 37 per cent. were foreign born. These figures show that pauperism is decreasing among foreign born instead of increasing. It is repeatedly charged that there is too much congestion of the immigrants in our large cities. Does anyone propose to remedy this by the passage of this bill? If the honorable chairman and gentlemen of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization would study the proposition of the proper distribution of immigration and present a bill for that purpose. they would do a greater service to the country than presenting and trying to jam through a bill to choke off immigration. which has been so beneficial to this country. Mr. Chairman. 10.000.000 acres of good farming land await the settler in the northern part of Wisconsin. We have in my State enough undeveloped good farm land to provide thousands of farms. thousands of homes. The foreign immigrant has been the most potent factor in the development of this great Commonwealth. From Germany. from Austria. Bohemia and Hungary.