-------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Immigration, | Immigration | Increase of | per cent of Decade | in the period | population | population- | | | increase -----------------|---------------|-------------|-------------- 1820-30 | 124,000 | 3,300,000 | 3.8 1830-40 | 528,000 | 4,200,000 | 12.3 1840-50 | 1,604,000 | 6,100,000 | 26.3 1850-60 | 2,648,000 | 8,200,000 | 32.3 1860-70 | 2,369,000 | 8,400,000 | 28.2 1870-80 | 2,812,000 | 10,400,000 | 27.0 1880-90 | 5,246,000 | 12,700,000 | 41.3 1890-1900 | 3,687,000 | 13,100,000 | 28.1 1900-1910 | 8,795,000 | 16,000,000 | 55.0 Total, 90 yrs. | 27,800,000 | 82,400,000 | 33.7 § 7. #Abnormal labor conditions resulting from immigration.# The labor supply coming from countries of denser population and with low standards of living creates, in some occupations, an abnormally low level of wages and prices. Children cannot be born in American homes and raised on the American standard of living cheaply enough to maintain at such low wages a continuous supply of laborers. Many industries and branches of industry in America are thus parasitical A condition essentially pathological has come to be looked upon as normal. The commercial ideal imposes itself upon the minds of men in other circles.