[291]. Mr. Streightoff points out that even in a year of prosperity about half of the laboring families are not able to save anything, even on the close margin of living which they maintain. Standard of Living, pp. 24, 25.
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[295]. Rept. Imm. Com., Immigration and Crime, Abs., p. 7.
[296]. Ibid., p. 8.
[297]. Cf. Hourwich, I. A., “Immigration and Crime,” Am. Jour. Soc., 17:4, p. 478.
[298]. Census Report on Prisoners, 1904, pp. 42, 45.
[299]. Ibid. Cf. also Bingham, T. A., “Foreign Criminals in New York,” No. Am. Rev., September, 1908, p. 381; Rept. Imm. Com., Imm. and Crime, Abs.; Americans in Process, pp. 199–207; The City Wilderness, p. 172.
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