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due to the fact that foreigners, generally, live 

 more simply than our poor. As they live their 

 own characteristic life, and are thrifty, they 

 make their scant earnings from vending, sweat- 

 shop work, or that of their own little shops, or 

 in their hard out-door labor, go twice as far as 

 those of the other class of poor, with their un- 

 warranted perverted tastes for " high life " and 

 extravagant wants. 



However, in the congested Jewish and Italian 

 quarters, with their millions of new comers each 

 year, there lies a great problem, and it is grati- 

 fying to note that it is being solved, though 

 slowly to be sure, by organizations of their own 

 better-situated countrymen. 



HOW TO MEET THE INFLUX OF POPULATION. 



How are we to meet this influx of population 

 in a way that will be of the greatest benefit to 

 the increasing hordes and also to the United 

 States? We do not intend to deport such of 

 these immigrants as are mentally, physically and 

 morally sound. That is not the spirit of Amer- 

 ica. Many of them come to these shores with 

 the intention of taking up farm life, but get 



