Here is the last report of the Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island. in which he says: Of these 430.001. 247.625 were men and boys and 182.376 were women and children. Many of the women were old womenfeeble and dependent. Nearly all of them were going to sons or other relatives. but in many instances those sons or other relatives had all they could do to provide for their own immediate families. A case in point was brought to my attention the other day. A feeble woman of 70 years had come here to her son. Her son had a wife and flvdj children to support.
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Old women are feeble and dependent and will be a burden on their families.