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ces of an ignorance nurured through generation
in the classes of those who come to our shores
there is physical reason that prompts us to op
pose them, and that is the great and increasing
cost of their maintenance. But few years back
the whole population of paupers through the
Union was but twenty-nine thousand; while in
the last year, it had sweled to an army of one
hundred and twenty-five thousand; with direct
tax for their support of more than three millions
of dollars. five do not arrest this while we may,
the population must change conditions, and the
American people become beggars in their own
land, while the mendicants and outlaws of other
nations will be living upon the spois ofthe change.


Yonr early and most serious examination of our en-
tire pduper system, and including the contemplated
nova of the Aims House to Blackwell's Island to
Randals Island, and the establishment of Workhouse,
is daily becoming necessary 1t believed that by
aborous investigation, and upon consequent new
rangements of the various departments, the enormous
penses may be diminished least prevented from be-
ing increased except in few absolutely unavoidable
ses. If the addition of numbers and cost of maintenance
are to go progressively as may be learned from tine
following particulars has thus far been the case many
years will not elapse before they will become burthen
greater than the tax payers will submit to.


BY report from the Commissioners, it appears that
the number Of inmates in the Aims House, including the
Hospitals and Long Island Farms sth September, 1887,
was 254S


Number in the BridewelI 1872
Do. Pententiary 652


Making a total of 1882
| Foreigners 2,OI5


| Native Americans I2S7


80 1882


similar statement of 10th of Sept, 1886, is added


in order to exhibit the increase year, and to show


that eighty per cent. of that increase foreign
ers
Number of inmates in Aims House. &c. ls33
Do. do Bridewe 81
Do. do Penentiarv 4O3
Making total of 1927
Of these there foreigners 1,l5S


." Native Americans, l ,169
1927
Total number, sth Sept, 1897, as above, 1882


Do 10th Sept, 1886, 1927


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