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differ from the long-headed northern race, which occupies to-day the 

 rural districts of the American Union. Not one of them has reached a 

 high degree of civilization. They have not proved their capability of 

 self-government. They are illiterate and differ in their religious beliefs, 

 their languages and customs, from the Teutonic peoples. They are 

 vivacious, restless, turbulent, and do not possess that respect for law 

 and a well-regulated government which is inborn in the northern race. 

 They bring rarely whole families with them. 13 No process of selection 

 is now at work as in former days. A modern sea voyage has not the 

 dangers and terrors of earlier times. The better and best people stay 

 now at home and only the lower classes emigrate. A mixture of these 

 races with the earlier immigrants could not possibly produce a superior 

 people, as we sometimes read in newspaper articles ; it would vitiate and 

 deteriorate the American race, and might prepare for this nation the 

 fate of the Eoman empire. 14 



At the time when the immigrants from the south and east of Europe 

 began to arrive in larger numbers on the American shore the vast tracts 

 of public lands had, as we have seen, been occupied by the Anglo-Saxons 

 and the other Teutonic peoples, mingled with considerable numbers of 

 Celts. There were no large territories left where any great numbers of 

 these newcomers could have settled. But these later immigrants are 

 not agriculturally inclined; they would not settle in the country even 

 if public lands were still accessible to them. They belong to the 

 poorest classes, were mostly brought up in cities, and are not adapted 

 to the cultivation of the soil. With the exception, perhaps, of the 

 Poles an exceedingly small number of these later immigrants settle 

 in the country. 15 The Eussian Jew is a city dweller; the Greek and 

 the Syrian stay in the cities; the Hungarian and the Slav take to 

 mining; the Italians who do not follow mining or railroading prefer 

 the large cities. Eipley asserts that four fifths of our foreign-born citi- 

 zens live in the twelve principal cities of the country. 16 It is quite 

 certain that the greater number of these are of the later immigration. 



We have thus shown that the Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic stock, 



13 Ripley, Atlantic Monthly, December, 1908. About 70 per cent, of these 

 immigrants are males. 



"To withstand and counteract the steadily growing power of the yellow 

 races the American nation requires all the strength and unity of a homogeneous 

 people. 



15 How few of these immigrants settle on public lands may be seen from a 

 late announcement of the Chamber of Commerce of Spokane, Wash. (April, 

 1909). It shows that during fourteen months 106,000 new settlers established 

 themselves in the states of Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana. Of this 

 number only 10,000 were immigrants from Europe and almost all of these came 

 from Great Britain and the Teutonic countries. 



16 Atlantic Monthly, December, 1908. More than 800,000 Jews live in New 

 York alone ; most of them came to this country during the last twenty- five years. 



