Then there are 13 other States having more than 35 per cent of such population. and many others. having a heavy percentage of such population. (See pp. 85 to 89. Abstract 13th Census.) Every student of this question knows that these people are collecting in dangerous hundreds of thousands in the large cities. President Roosevelt said in his message to the Fiftyninth Congress: As much as possible should be done to distribute the immigrants upon the land and keep them away from the congested tenementhouse districts of the great cities. (P. 101 REconD. 59th Cong.. spec. sess.) The Immigration Commissions report. from which I quote .freely because of its authenticity. says: In making the large cities and industrial centers their place of residence. aliens composing the new immigration movement have continued to follow a tendency which originated with the advent of such immigrants in considerable numbers. (1 I. C. ii.. 40.) And again: The increase in foreignborn is an increase in city population entirely. and mostly in large city population. (1 I. C.
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