The public authorities in that city have not only overcrowded every charitable institution. but have been compelled to even utilize he recreation piers and the boats owned ty the city to house and relieve thousands of aliens without work. Yet the gentleman from New York City insists that we shall continue to annually accept mora than 1.000.000 aliens in this country seeking employment. a great majority of whom are unloaded in the harbor of New York. We have received in this country. 1.500.000 aliens from one of the countries of southern Europe and 850.000. or 54 per cent. of them can not read or write. and only threetenths of them have become naturalized. Our last national census was taken on February 15. 1910. and at that time we had in the United States 13.515.8806 persons born in foreign lands. From the 15th day of February. 1910. to December 31. 1913. we have received 4.278.889 aliens. making a total of 17.794.775 persons in this country of foreign birth on The opponents of this bill have taunted us with the great amount of ignorance and illiteracy in the Southern States. They have declared it to be a drawback and an evil to the South. Yes. we of the South know it. We feel and we realize it. and therefore the Members from the Southern States. almost to a mal. wish to reduce. and not increase. ignorance and illiteracy by keeping our doors closed to that class of immigrants from all the world.
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