III. _Evils of Undistributed Immigration._
Warne: The Slav Invasion, IV, V.
Hunter: Poverty, VI.
Lord, et al: The Italian in America, IV, X.
IV. _Efforts to Secure Wider Distribution of Immigrants._
Hall: Immigration, XIII.
Lord, et al: The Italian in America, VII, IX.
_To know anything about the actual character of recent and present
immigration, we must distinguish the many and very diverse elements
of which it is composed._--Samuel McLanahan.
IV
THE NEW IMMIGRATION
The world never before saw anything comparable to this tremendous
movement of people in so short a space of time. The population Europe
has lost in a hundred years is greater than the total number of
inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland in 1860, and only a little less
than that of the United States in the same year. It is equal to three
fifths of the total population of Europe in the time of Augustus Caesar.
If the ships carried five hundred passengers on the average, about fifty
thousand trips have been made in the transfer.
Emphatically too many people are now coming over here; too many of an
undesirable sort. In 1902 over seven tenths were from races who do not
rapidly assimilate with the customs and institutions of this
country.
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