Foreigners and Insanity.—Mr. Thaddeus S. Dayton has an article in Harper's Weekly of October 19, entitled "Importing Our Insane," that presents some statistics that are certainly alarming. Premising that foreign countries would be glad to be rid of their feeble-minded and insane population, we are told that "in the asylums for the insane and the feeble-minded, the foreign inmates are in the majority. In nearly every part of the country they are crowding out the native-born, for they are increasing two and one half times as fast. One alien out of every fifty becomes a lunatic. The ratio among the native Americans is one in 450." We are told that the proportions regarding the feeble-minded are undoubtedly similar. Generally speaking, therefore, "about two immigrants out of every fifty that enter this country are either actually or potentially mental cripples. Each of these defectives costs the state about $3,500 to maintain until his existence ends." If no more aliens were admitted to the institutions, the total bill for the maintenance of those already there would be in the neighborhood of $175,000,000. New York State alone is paying nearly $4,000,000 a year to feed and house the alien insane in its civil and criminal asylums. In the two largest hospitals in New York City, the percentages are respectively 59 and 57 foreign-born, and in some of the Western States the percentage is above 70. One of the doctors who examines these immigrants tells us that while the number of the insane and feeble-minded aliens who are known to be in this country runs into many thousands, the majority of them have already left descendants here, and thus have started a vicious strain that will lead to misery and loss in future generations. It is one of the many serious items that point out very clearly, in accordance with Holy Writ, the trend of the age, the degeneracy of the race.