The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-05-21
The American and FOreis,,
Elements in our Population.

We present below brief abstract
OF paper contributed by DR.. Edward
Jarvis, to the April atlantic, on I'm
migration /:
The whole number cf foreigners
living in this country january, l
1870, was $500, SAG; and their fam
lies, parents and children, amounted
to 9,734,S46 persons. Add to these
the grand, children of the immigrants
of the forty years, 1790-IS3o, which
came early enough for their children
to be born here, grow to maturity,
marry, and become heads of families,
and the whole will not much exceed
lO,5OO,0OO ; whereas, if the rates of
natural increase We're equal for both
races from 1890, the American ele-
ment would have been 81 1,479, ,595.
and the foreign 11,GO7,3o4 in 1870 !;
and these classes severally would
have been 19,110,97S, and 7,Sl7,373,
in 1860 and 1864, AS, and 3,9OS,-
G2O, in 1850 and the numbers in
native families would have been so
per cent. in 1850, and II per cent.
in 1860. But the proportion of the
whole white population is even more
largely American than this.
No official account has been given
of the arrivals before October L,
1919. Some statistical writer's, how
ever, made careful inquiries and e;5ti-
mated the extent of imlnigration.-
Mr.. Blodgett thought the arrivals
did not exceed four thousand Il year
from 1889 to 1874. DR.. Seybert sup
posed there We're six thousand a
year, from 1890 to 1910. Professor
Tucker fixed the number at fifty
thousand in the period 1890 to 1900,
seventy thousand from 1900 to 1916,
one hundred and fourteen thousand
from 1910 to 1920, and two hun
dred thousand from 1920 to 1885,.
| The Professors estimates are now
admitted us correct by the best au-
thorities
DR.. Jarvis takes exception to the
theories lately advanced by Mr..
Knapp ard Mr.. Schaao, and adds
these remarks concerning the sources
Of natural in( (rease
In 1900 there We're presumed to
be G4l,940 children surviving from
the births in foreign families since
1880. These constituted the greater
part OF the gain at.that time. They
were subject to "a per cent. annual
mortality, and thereby lost 13S,44G
in the course of these ten years, and
SO many were needed to be born
and survive to tho end to fill their
places. As the last last -,nt-tere-onffy the
survivors Of the compensating births,
the number Of 37,347, who died
among them, must also be added to
those born in this period, making
175,793 births necessary to supply
the lost on the previous increase
Add these to those needed for the
increase of this period, 1,30s,103,
and there was total of 1883, 500
births necessary in this period, to
sustain and complete MIR. Knapp's
supposed increase.
The sources of this increase of the
productive power We're l. The
1892 survivors Of the immigrants
of the previous period. 2. The
10000 who arrived in this decade
OF the former 1888 were females,
and S,145 of these were of the pro-
ductive age, twenty to forty, who
had chance or a hope of living ten
years each, Or a total Of 81, ,489 years
within this period.
1t is noteworthy fact, that the
rate of natural increase has dimin-
ished with the increase of foreigners.
BY comparing the numbers Of for
eigners in our population with those
of the total whites, at the several de-
cennial years, or the average num-
bers of the foreigners with the aver
nge numbers Of total whites during
the decennial periods, we obtain the