Show AS CRIMINALS It Is III customary with a n certain elites class of ot people to charge the foreign element clement clementIn In iii this county with criminal tendencies and on that lint ground It lifts hAs been beon proposed to restrict Immigration ns IS well ns M on the ground that time the foreigners compete unfairly with American labor It seems that statistics as s far tor ns liB avail available able do not sustain the charge ot of crim criminality I II t beyond the average percentage One of ot tho time publications of ot the Chicago of ot contains t says ays the Chicago u n table show showing ing lag the tho ho percentage ot of population anti and arrests In 1000 by nationalities fur for twelve large American Amerlean cities It I ap up pears that for tor till nil these th so cities tile the for lor residents formed 21 per cent I of the tho population anti and furnished 3 remit cent of at tho the arrests The Tho Italians num lIum boring 11 II per cent of ot tho the population furnishing 14 lt per cent of ot time the ar arrests arrests rests refits were above the average In crim criminality but bul time the Russians Including Poles Ioles with percentages respectively of ot 36 35 antI and 37 vero below lelow while the Austrian with whim percentages of at 12 S 8 sI had imail it a still better record records It IL may amity he bo said also that time the Italian record was wall wasby by no means the tho worst on the tho list lAt The Tho wisely As tho time arrests arrest referred to Include nr rests for tor misdemeanors and for tor the vio yio violation 10 lation of ot city ordinances or as os well as for tor crimes the tho figures cannot be said to have baye any uny great grent value alue So 80 tar fur as ns they go however they thoy are distinctly un unfavorable unfavorable favorable to LA tho the alarmists point of ot view |