The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-01-27

Z aGreat N Natlonal Debt.
Thefollowing interesting article on the
above subject, Is Nos, of series of artic.
les written for the Milwaukee Sentinel,
by a gentleman with whom we are inti-
mately acquainted, and who is one of the
ablest political economists in the State.
". Again, in estimating all the ele-
ments that are working together for the
production of our national wealth, we
must rot omit immigration. This is the
most important of all the sources of our
population. As population, or labor, is
one of the two great factors In the pro-
ductien of the national wealth, imn.igra-
tion is of primary Importance. Over
three hundred and fifty thousand emf
grants arrived in this country during the
last year. According to the census of
1860. there were then in this country,
I,6II 3O4, natives of Ireland +; !, 1881, SO
natives of Germany 431. .692 natives of
England 349, go natives of British
America lO9,S70 natives of France /;
los, ,5lS, natives of Scstland 53, 327 ma
tiveS of Switzerland 45, ,763 natives Of
Wales 43, S95 natives of Norway 35,
sos natives of China %, ,2sl natives of
Holland q ,446 natives of Mexico 49,
625 natives of Sweden lO,5lS natives
of Italy and so On, making Alb, ,Sl2
foreign born inhabitants OF the United
States. But the gain to the strength of
the population of the country is not SIM
ply in the number of the emigrants it
consists also in their increase after they
have settled here. Very few people
have asked themselves the quT stion
what would have been the population of
the United States at the present time, if
there had been no immigration since the
adoption of the Constitution ? The law
of increase in the native population is
known and simple computation will en-
able us to answer the question with prox-
inmate exactness. We shall give the
statistics up to the year 1868, more than
half dozen years ago. What is true OF
that period is still more strikingly true
to day. 1t immigration had been pro
hibited in 1870, the population of the
United States in 1868 would have been
8, 7S9, ,969; instead of 32,O00.O00. If
had been prohibited in
1900, our population in 1863 would have
been 10, 462, 949. Fit had been arrested
in 1910, the population in 1863 would
have reached only 12,67S, 542. If it had
ceaseed in 1920. there would in 1868
have been but 14,60l ,4S5, inhabitants
il, this country. In other words immi-
grants and their defendants mum bered
over 81 900, 900 between 1850 and 1868;
over 1900, 900 between 1900 and 1868;
over II, 600, 900 between 1910 and 1863,
over Is, 900, 600 between 1920 and 1868.
If the calculations were carried up to
1870 the figures would be still more
So immigration, we repeat, is the
most important of all the sources OF our
'Native Americanism'
could be set up with good grace only
by the the Aborigines. We have to adj
nit, therefore, that immigration Is ofthe
first importance in fair estimate OF the
labor Of this country.
V. To the various characteristics OF
the American population must be added
the migratory disposition and the fear
less enterprise of our people. Go where
you like and you will find there Yankee.
Ascend Mount Etna and you will meet
another American coming down. Make
a journey through Siberia and you Will
find other Americans in tent with the
down below the point OF
freezing mercury. The writer of this
Austrian Government constructed mill
tary road into Italy, at the expence of a
million florins per mile. 1t was the
longest day IN summer yet the snow was
ten feet deep. 1t is the highest road IN
Europe half a mile higher than the top
of Mount Washington. None of his
countrymen will be found here was his
triumphant thought. To his surprise
he overlook two dashing young Amerl-
cans in an elegant coach drawn by four
superb horses, driven by gally dressed
Italian coachman. The writer of this
once found in by street of Paris thrift
ty Yankee woman keeping a kind of
eating saloon which she called Specialize
ete Punepkin Pie. In London may be
found at any time half dozen Mining
managed by cute Yankees
who have the wit to retire seasonably
with plenty of John Bulls gold in their
pockets Mr.. Thackery used to tell the
story that when he was sea sick on the
Ocean, and In the very act of sacrificing
to the Nemesis of the deep over the edge
of the steamer, an enterprlslng i ankee
plucked him by the sleeve, announcing
himself as the agent of New York
publishing house and desirous of making
arrangements with him tor any Of his
future literary productions. The Ameri-
can is shrewd, shop trading fellow.
giver to bargaining and speculation.
He is at once bold and practical. He
n ever medidates about things, like the
true German, but straight into things.
He never pursues an idea, like French
man, but is great in the relentless chase
of anything that viii pay. He never
sacrifices himself to his own dignity,
like the Span,ard, but viii go on all
fours in the presence Of the universe,
sooner than miss his own practical aim.
He never waists time, like the beauty
loving Italian, in the mere embeilIsh-
ment objects, but reckons they will 'du
when they are practically adapted to the
end he has in view. He never follows
the old road like the EngEsman when he
can find shorter cut. The country was
settled by men who were eoterprising
enough to cross huge boistrous ocean, and
bold though to encounter the savages and
subdue the wilderness of the New World.
Their descendants have their adyentur-
us bocd ard unhinchipg nerve The
emmigrants who are-constantly adding to
the old stock. are of the boider and more
enterprising sort. And the spirit OF ad
venture has been constantly kept up by
pushing settlements forward from the
east, to the, west The. Americans have
worked their way against hostile savages
against deadly fevers, against trackless
wilderness, across the entire continent
The rapid settlement of this country has
been the greatest practical achievement
of mankind. This migratory disposition
this daring enterprise, this restless ener
gy Of our people, adds effectiveness O
labor, to the rapidity of the development
of our resources, to the accumulation o.
national wealth.