Mr. Chairman. when the gentlenman from Alabama and myself. who were members of the Immigration Commission. came to the conclusion of our labors. .and later there was reported a bill. I sumnmarized our conclusions in a paragraph. the contrary of which no one has proved. from that time to this. I said: - As to the character of the immigrants who have -come to this country in ihe past 25 years. the Immigration Commissionnine men of differing viewsreported unanimously that conviction for crime is no . more common famong the new immigrants than among the native born. that they are far less the victims of disease than any other class of immigrants of whom statistics have ever been kept. that they are -rarely found. among the victims of alcoholism. that pauperism is relatively -at a .minimum among them. that in the most congested blocks of .cities having .the laxgest foreignborn populations fivesixths of the homes of the foreign born are well kept and twofifths are immaculateand this on the report of women investigators. that thei.r children -attend school in large inurmbers. and that such new immigramts .are much more rarely found in the insane :asylum than their.predecessors. That was vhat we found after the expenditure -of $700.000 and two years of work. Certainly it is not an indictment against the inunigrants -upon which to found new legislation.
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