The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1858-03-25
HOW MUCH IN POPULATION AND CASH WE
E,SA ROWETO IMMIGRATION

At "a meeting of the Geographical So
cicty, of New York, Thursday evening" the
Section on political Statistics, held its first
session. The chairman. S. =. Dinsmorc,
Esq, presented some Information in regard
to immigration into this country, which
won tho attention of the meeting Among
the facts brought forward were the follow
ing:
"In the State of Massachusetts, tor in
stance, which is not politically remarkable
for the supremacy of the foreign population,
the tables will soon show !. number OF
births of foreign parentagc i'll excess ri
those of native parentaEe. In lS,'t. rt
$4,000 born in that State, 1860 we've vt
American parentago wllc Srme ,torn
were of foreign parcn;a=r Eut The vrr
ccntago of the Increase OF births t,rm ~, -,
parcntage was twice that trv,u u';'>r ,2,,ru.
tage. Probably the census Il l>lN W.
show, il not an excess. an vVUI v&",'<y
of inhabitants forei I'll hr,:. S:.G !. I,;,"."
parentage-as compared wyI!, ,,t> u',,,,
tants of native ?ayr"."gr.
sit is interesting L. tvur,;'e ,':r ,r>,;,.>
of porula,ion i'll this truutry, is ulw c>-
hibitel in our census :;il,t>. with the ,r>u,;>
which would have lt,n hA., ti:ryc been nn
foreign immi iSra;ion.
'ln 1900 the population OF the United
States, including whites and free c"orrl
persons, WAS 3,23l.a30. Now the careful
calculation Of the tables shows that tic AN
nnai Increase OF population by excess Of
births over deaths is l.3S per cent. (3S
i'll 10000 in this country largest in
crease OF any country in the world, the like
increase in England and Wales hcin. l25-
(l2o in lo.UUo.) in France IA, in E,,Ssi,
-, in Prussia LII, in IIailanl .33, il.
Belgium Gl, III Portugal -, in Saxony
los.
".\t .his rate of rcrc;.Sc Of population,
augmented lv the excess OF birth, over
deaths alone, we iiul awaiting ourselves ui
the elaborate tables Of Louis Scho.lr E>..
that we should have in this country in 1850.
1,J5j, ,l23 inhabitants, instead Of l"9S7,-
57:} IA dill crcncc Of l. 49,: $50 50 .h1,
willie III tic Increase of population in this
country since 100 the clements Of cXc"S>
Of hitlhs over deaths lave given hut ,323,-
1913 Of population, the increase by and though
Immigration has given over twelve millions
-theproporlion being of national increase
to Of increase though importation Of pop
untion.
If we may measure the value Of inhah-
itants to II State 10y the worth Of the m IL
umens which industry leaves on the face Of
the earth, having meanwhile taken from
the earth its daily food we may reckon from
these data that immi grafton has given to
lis thrcc-ionrlhs Of the farm improvements,
tllrcc.frurths Of the cities and towns built.
thrcc-fourlhs Of the miles of railroad con
struc:cJ, throughout the lenyll. and breadth
Of the land.
And it will not be forgotten that the
kind Of population which immigration has
brought lis has been mainly Of the prolc,a.
~ or productive class 1t is the foreigners
who have done the work. The natives,
born on the soil, have considered themselves
the cl'Ss-n"'i cv"s"mcrc nys-born to
co"sume'the fruits Of the soil. Compute
for instance, the actual creating force Of tc
New England aud other native emigration
to the West, and omit the consideration of
its capacity in organizing labor, AMI think
We sllall find that the average amount to
rc:.! productive toll of each native born
western man, after dcducting from his time
what the exigencies of horsc-racny, whi>cy-
drinking, attending agricultural fairs and
speculation in towns lots have required Of
him-his actual productive toll has not en-
cceded six hours in each week. But the
foreign emigrant has had no such license
granted to linn. The necessities Of his daily
life have required an aggregate of fifty hours
labor per week, spent in adorning and en-.
riching the earth aud raising from its bosom
the fruits to supply the consumption of the
people.
"lf we may compute the worth of each
Immigrant and descendant of immigrants,
on the valuation of slave labor-tl,at is,
counting Caucasian blood as worth as much
as Ethiopc blood, and assuming the value
of each woman and chid at $4,000 four
hundred dollars, the aggregate cash value
of theimmigration since 1900 and its fruits
will be found s4,o72, $4,000, near.y five
thousand millions Of doilars-a sum exceed
ing half c: the great debt, wlsch in fash
ions Of lavish expenditure Great Britain has
incurred in obtaining the empire and the
wealth of half the world
=" Another fact, which should not solong
have, escaped the attention and comment of
commercial statistics, is the enormous
amount Of coin which has been brought to
this country bv forcivn m,n;rr,ptc "a