Our Immigration During 1904 



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Aliens detained in Penal, Reformatory, and Charitable 

 Institutions, showing for each race the ratio of 

 criminality, and that said ratio corresponds largely 

 to the proportion of recent arrivals 



Proportion ofalien. inmates 

 who are criminals 



GRAND 

 DIVISION 

 OF RACE 



Proportion ofalien inmates 

 arrived within 5 years 



KELTIC 

 TEUTONIC 

 SLAVIC 



IBERIC 



AVERAGE OF 

 ALL RACES 



From F. P. Sargent, Commissioner General of Immigration 



This chart shows the ratio of criminality of the four principal grand divisions, viz. : Keltic, 

 Teutonic, Slavic, and Iberic. The Iberic division leads in criminality, with Slavic second, 

 Teutonic third, and Keltic fourth. The Iberic ratio of 39 per cent is thought not to show the 

 true condition, as it was found impracticable in the compilation of these figures to exclude the 

 Italian (north) who belong with the Keltic grand division from the Italian (south) who belong 

 with the Iberic grand division. In this connection it is pointed out that there were 809 aliens 

 confined in the institutions of the United States proper for murder, 253 of whom were Italians ; 

 there were 373 confined for attempts to kill, 139 of whom were Italians. This is a ratio of one 

 Italian to two aliens of all other races. From this diagram it will be seen that the racial divisions 

 that have the largest percentages of recent arrivals detained are the ones that have the highest 

 ratio of criminality. (See pages 26 and 27.) 



But we are receiving man}' other fam- 

 ilies of a similar character bound for the 

 tenement districts of our large cities, 

 and with aspirations as narrow as those 

 above described, whom it is not possible 

 to exclude under existing law, for it 

 does not necessarily follow that they are 

 likely to become public charges from the 

 fact that they will go to an overcrowded 

 tenement district and occupy inadequate 

 quarters. 



Of the so-called "Americans" who 

 have obtained their citizenship by rush- 

 ing to the United States, living here 

 long enough to take out papers, and 



then hurrying back to their native 

 land, Inspector Marcus Brown gives 

 the following illustration : 



' ' The conditions I found to exist 

 there (Jerusalem) are even worse, if 

 such be possible, than in Syria. In the 

 city of Jerusalem alone I found over 

 1,000 'American citizens,' the vast 

 majority of whom, being Hebrews, live 

 there ostensibly for religious reasons. 

 A number of them are engaged in some 

 business pursuits. These, however, are 

 in the minority, the prevailing majority 

 living on charity, mostly on the so-called 

 ' chaluka ' (the biblical one- tenth) , which 



