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Show Onk need not look for any very strin-g(nt strin-g(nt immigration legislation by this democratic congress. A lato census bulletin shows that tho total city population popu-lation of this country is 88,000,000, or about t'J per cent of the whole. This per cent is rapidly increasing. The foreign element nearly all stops in the c ities, and in some cities it largely predominates. pre-dominates. A heavy majority of this element is democratic and the close mass is brought under tho control of political bosses, of which the best example ex-ample is Tammany in New York. The democratic strongholds in the north nnd west, except in Pennsylvania and Ohio, are in the cities, and a democratic congress will not adopt drastic immigration immi-gration laws whose effect will be to cut oil an important democratic supply. |