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If the showing that the Jewish population of New England has increased in 17 years from 9000 to 74,000 gives anybody pause , it is not at least without its compensation . The very need of the immigrant to which objection is made , plus the energy that will not let him sit still and starve , make a way for him that opens it at the same time for others . In New York he _ made _ the needle industry , which he monopolized . He brought its product up from $ 30,000,000 to $ 300,000,000 a year , that he might live , and founded many a great fortune by his midnight toil . In New England , while peopling its abandoned farms , in self-defence he takes up on occasion abandoned manufacturing plants to make the work he wants . At Colchester , Connecticut , 120 Jewish families settled about the great rubber-works . The workings of a trust shut it down after 40 years ' successful operation , causing loss of wages and much suffering to 1500 hands .