| Show THE TIDE OF immigration NC OU I 1 4 calr p 04 korthof Kor thoE alme be america bwy cd 1 in the I 1 leyb boyer lobean lO Yean chih fc onh b 11 av port an how the cyl r r h rom am in the minds of the police and the secret service officials not to speak ot of the immigration authorities and po bitic economists who are aware of the situation the sicilian question is fast becoming as pressing as the chi nese immigration question was on the pacific coast two decades ago this year the immigration promises to overtop all records the bulk of the immigrants are from the southern part of europe the italians include ing sicilians lead all other natio nall ties the sicilians are the principal of trouble to the secret ice tee for they do moot mot of the manlutac turing and passing of counterfeit mon ey in this country the police say they are the hardest class of people they have to deal with for the mafla mafia Is all powerful with all the sicilians those who are not affiliated with it quite as potentially as those who are known to be members of that secret organization the immigration statistics for the month of march have just been made 1 public and they indicate what many publicists public officials and students of sociology affirm Is bound to be come a menace if not checked ere ero long the number of arrivals at new york last month was 91 or 14 more than in march 1902 which was the record for that month it if the same ratio Is maintained for the next eleven months the tion of the united states will be in creased by more than one million through immigration in a year what this means may be comprehended when it Is stated that since 1820 the total number of immigrants coming here Is twenty one million italy furnished the greatest number of immigrants last month as tor for some time past with a total of 30 or more than one thousand a day the bulk of the italian immigrants come from the southern part of italy and sicily the part known in the school geographies as the boot it begins to look as if we are feeling the weight of the boot new york herald |
