The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1886-10-07
The QUESTION OF IMMIGRATION.
Some Interesting Speculations
with Regard to the Future
Of the American People.
The Extent to Which the Countries Of
Europe Contribute to Our
Population.
a Complicated Problem.

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What will the American citizen of
me future. say fifty years hence, be
likep VIII the Anglo-Saxon type con-
Ycontinue to predominant? Will the
3Celt still hold his own, or will the Ger
man rome TO the front and assert him
selfp Moreover, will not the Latin and
SIavonic races have something to say
about the future American manp These
are questions which are pulling the
Snthropologists, says q writer in The
Brooklys Eagle, and even causing some
concern to thoughtful statesmen, who
view, not without anxiety, the efforts
of this republic to absorb yearly and
turn into good citizens nearly three
quarters of million persons of foreign
origin, some OF whom have a very i'm
perfect acquaintance with free institu-
tons. vs.
An appeal to the statistics of the past
will not wholly answer these questions,
tor the currents OF immigration are
schanging and new streams are flowing
toward MS in recent years. Still, to OBJ
tain = starting point for u inquiry
and = basis Upon which to speculate, it
is necessary to refer to these statistics
very briefly. At the present time the
population of this republic may be set
down at upward 'of, sc, 600, 600. OF these
about Z, 100000 are coIored and $780,
600 foreign-born. leaving 10000, 900
persons of the white races born upon
the soil. When the hrst census was
taken, in 1890, there were $3.50. 600
white persons in the United States.
This population wa largely homoge-
neous, being mainly of British origin,
although Germans were numerous in
some of the states. There was also a
considerable Irish population, most of
the latter, however, being of Scotch
Presbyterian stock. The Celtic Irish
had not at that period undertaken to
relieve the native of the trouble Of gov
erning their cities. This original ma
tive population, il LETT to itself, would
now. by natural increase, have reached
an aggregate of %, coo, 900 souls. It
has, Of course, intermarried with i'm
migrants largely, hut, nevertheless,
this figure may be taken to represent
the strength of the old stock among
our present native-born white popula-
ton of 40, coo. coo. The total number
OF immigrants who have arrived in the
United States since 1890 exceeds 49,
000,O00. Of whom more than half have
arrived in the past twenty years. Up
to 1870 Ireland.led all other nations in
Z sending immigrants to the United
States, having sent in the fifty years
between 1920 to 1870 no less than
2,70O.0OO persons. England and Wales
in the same period contributed $50, 600
and Scotland $1,000, but there were
others unclassited which sailed from
British ports, most of whom were prob
ably Germans and Scandinavian. OF
immigrants who were known to have
come from Germany 2,27O,000 arrived
during this fifty years, besides 10000
from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark,
and 245, 600 from France. Between
1870 and 1880 the number Of im1ai-
grants from Germany was greater than
from Ireland, the result being that at
the census taken in that year there
were found TO be l, 966, TAP persons of
German birth in the country and / ,854,-
57l,o Irish birth. At the. SAM census
there were foundsto be 917, 598 natives
of Great Britain and 40, 1852 natives Of
the! Scandinavian countries, the latter
having shown . largely-incrcased EN-
igration during the decade.
There has been nothing in the his
tory of emigration SO remarkable as the
overflow Of population from Ireland
between 1S45 and 1870, its strength and
volume going far to justify the boasts
frequently made IS to the prolific
character Of the Irish race. But this
quality no longer distinguishes the
Irish race in its native country, for in
1882 the births in ireland. with a popu-
lation Of 5000. 600, were actually few
81 BY nearly 1900 than in Scotland,
Eith . population of $3.50, 0O0. and
the excess Of births over deaths, which
M Scotland was $4,000, was in Ireland
about $1,000. Therefore, when Ireland,
10 1882. sent 69.461 emigrants to this
country, she parted with more than
double her natural increase Of popular
ton. The population Of Ireland does
not now exceed 5000, O0O, and its birth
rate islow. With . natural increase
gcf less than 50. 600 annually. it is evi-
dent that the number Of emigrantst IL
scAn hereafter send totthe United States
will 81 bit small III comparison with
the vast stseamSfrom Germany, or eve
smaller vel. steady How from Eng
lind and Scotland, or the Scandinavian
countries. The following statoment Of
~ natural increase tof these countries
INA of their Amigrants 10 the United
.GEates III 1881 presents the whole prob
1naa glance and will cave many
sNRsords If ~explanation:
s8%8 Emmierants
, M.ssss. fs unissd
Ges1qsnye 10. ..:..:: ~ 1sSs >
Sfeets britain .....s. .............. 1lAeI9 NIL
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