Would it be equitable for States who are clamoring for the eselusion of these very people to be compelled to bear any part of the burd..n of the care and support of the paupers and lunatics forced into our country by the folly of Members of Congress? The anaual expense of caring for the alien insane in New York alone is nearly $3.000.000. This number is being each year greatly increased by the admission of that very low class of immigrants that the illiteracy test would keep out. In the report of the New York Board of Alienists for the year ending September 30. 1911. on page 22. the following statement is made: For the first few years after the commencement o. that remarkable migration of the races of southern ani eastern EuroIpe to this country (to which AustriaHungary. Italy. and Russia have Contributed nearly 500.000 persons a year) It Is noted that the Increase of patnts of those nationalities In the State hospitals was gradua. By 1905. however. it was possible 1o predict that when the effects of the "new "Inmizration " commenced to be felt the " old Immigration " (of Germans. Irish. and Scandinavians) would be outdone In the r.umbers of insane added to the foreignborn population of our State hospitals. Today that prediction is fulfilled. and during the year more than 55 per cent of tlhe aliens deported by the United States Immigration Service were natives of thoee three countries. The New York Times of March 28. 1912. says:
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