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3. The effect of immigration upon the morals of the
American people, as shown by:
(a) The criminal immigrant. The moral charac
teristics of the various races may be indicated by the
number of crimes and the character of the crimes
committed by them.
(b) The social evil and the white-slave traffic, indi
cated in part by court records and observations of
social workers and special investigators.
(c) The immigrant pauper: A study of the immi
grants in the charity hospitals and of the relief given
by the charitable societies to immigrants.*
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
4- The effect of immigration upon American insti
tutions, as shown by:
(o) Political effects, indicated by the relative num
ber of immigrants of various races that become natu
ralized, and by the methods employed by political
Managers to influence the votes of the immigrants.
(b) The social effects as indicated by:
1. The church affiliations and religious practises
and customs of the immigrants of different races.
2. The immigrant family, as shown in part by the
marriage relations; the fecundity of immigrant wom-
e n, as compared with American women; the chil
dren of the immigrants; the tendency also toward
establishing families here, or leaving families in Eu
rope, with the expectation of returning to them.
3- The immigrant colony. Both in our large cities
and in agricultural districts, the effect of immigration
upon our institutions has been profoundly modified by
Pauperism is, of course, to be considered also in other than its
n *oral aspects, but it is conveniently classified here.