The Sun (New York) 28 Jun 1891
They are Coming Here More Rapidly than Immigrants from Any Other Land--Barge Office Authorities Rank Them Low In Comparison With Other Nationalities--Conflicting Reports About Their Subsequent Manner of Life in America--[...]--Ten Male Italians to One Female the Proportion of the Sexes Coming Here---How Many Return to Italy With American Dollars?
The rate at which the impoverished subjects of the King of Italy are crowding through all our national turnstiles suggests an inquiry into the aims and subsequent manner of life of the hordes that are rapidly becoming a large factor in our body politic. Italians are coming to America now in vastly greater numbers than ever before, [...]
It must be admitted, however, that a certain amount of prejudice agains the race has sprung up in other localities on account of the many bloody crimes in which they have figured [...] The "dago," as he is contemptuously called, is ranked by many as the Chinaman of the East, and sometimes the comparison made is much in favor of the Mongolian. Unfortunately, [...] it is true that the Chinese in this country are his superiors ... The Asiatic is more law abiding, and is cleaner ... It is true that the Italians compose the lowest grade of immigrants ... nine-tenths of the objectionable comers who are ordered back are Italians.
[...] Superintendent Weber says that the Italians are by all odds the worst immigrants who land here.
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