Some of Our Immigrants 



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Arabs 

 Only a few representatives of this people come to the United States 



ifications of the immigrants. Perhaps 

 the most striking fact is that less than 

 5 per cent of the newcomers have reached 

 or passed the age of 45. Of the arrivals 

 in 1906, 913,955 ranged in age from 14 

 to 44, 136,273 were less than 14 years of 

 age, and only 50,507 had reached or 

 passed the age of 45. More than two- 

 thirds of the immigrants were males, the 

 figures being 764,463 men and boys 

 and 336,272 women and girls. 



About 28 per cent of the total number 

 were illiterate, which is a very large 

 proportion when we consider that only 

 6.2 per cent of the total white population 

 of the United States and only 4.6 per 

 cent of the native-born whites in 1900 

 were illiterate. 



The immigrants brought to the country 



cash amounting to $25,109,413. It is 

 e.xceedingly interesting to note the dif- 

 ference in financial condition between cer- 

 tain of the races. For instance, while 

 the number of Hebrew aliens admitted 

 was more than three times as great as 

 the number of English, the former 

 brought $2,362,125 with them and the 

 latter $2,610,439, while the 144,954 Ger- 

 mans and Scandinavians brought $5,091,- 

 594; the 263,655 South Itahans and 

 Greeks brought only $4,183,398, and 

 while 16,463 Scotch were able to show 

 $820,759, more than twice as many 

 members of the Slovak race produced 

 only $526,028. 



There were debarred during the year 

 12,432 aliens, of whom 2,495 belonged 

 to the Hebrew race, 2,121 to the Italian, 



