[302]. Cf. Bingham, T. A., The Girl that Disappears, and “Foreign Criminals in New York,” No. Am. Rev., September, 1908; and Rept. Imm. Com., Importing Women for Immoral Purposes; New York Times, Jan. 17, 1912, p. 1.
[303]. Cf. Census Report on Prisoners, 1904, p. 236; Commons, Races and Immigrants in America, p. 170; Hall, Immigration, p. 150; Bingham, No. Am. Rev., September, 1908; Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, p. 252; Americans in Process, p. 209.
[304]. Rept. Com. Gen. of Imm., 1908, p. 98.
[305]. Insane and Feeble-minded in Hospitals and Institutions, 1904, p. 20.
[306]. Rept. Imm. Com., Immigration and Insanity. Cf. Williams, William, “Immigration and Insanity,” address before the Mental Hygiene Conference, New York City, Nov. 14, 1912. Yet the burden of the feeble-minded immigrant is becoming so strongly felt in New York as to lead the Chamber of Commerce of that state to send resolutions to Congress urging better provisions for excluding this class. The Survey, March 2, 1912.
[307]. Roberts, P., Anthracite Coal Communities, pp. 19 ff.; Warne, Slav Invasion.
[308]. Jenks and Lauck, Immigration Problem, p. 92.
[309]. Ibid., p. 72. For numerous other cases see Rept. Imm. Com., Imms. in Mf. and Min., Abs., pp. 226 ff.; Commons, J. R., Races and Immigrants in America, pp. 151, 152.
[310]. Anthracite Coal Communities, p. 20.
[311]. For an opposite view of this whole question, see Hourwich, I. A., Immigration and Labor. This book, which should be consulted for an elaborate defense of free immigration from the economic point of view, has come to hand too late to be cited at frequent intervals throughout the present work. It is an ingenious production, but so full of inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and misleading statements that to criticize it in detail would require a volume in itself. The refutation of many of Dr. Hourwich’s arguments may be found throughout the pages of the present work.