The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-05
THE COMING AMERICAN RACE.
It VIII Be Angl0-German With a Dash of
Celtic Thrown In.


It WIN BE AngIo-German With a Dash of
Celtic Thrown In.
1t is curious to note the shifting
character of the immigration to this
country. For awhile we were threat
ened with an Italian deluge. When
the collapse in the Argentine republic
and uruguay turned the hoodtide of
southern Europe in this direction the
American ports were overrun with the
brown races of Sicily and the Italian
peninsula, and some of the prophets
began to predict that the American
people would be Latinized But the
Italian immigration is already decreas-
ing. The report of the bureau of sta
tistics shows that the mum Der of Italians
arriving in this country during the
nine months ending with March was
80, 1874, while during the corresponding
period of the year preceding it was 3s,-
OPS, and still greater for the year before
that The feature of the movement
from Europe is the enormous growth of
the Russian immigration. This is due
to two cause.-the increasing discon-
tent throughout the empire and the
Jewish persecution, the latter in par
ticular being effective. AS a source of
human supply Russia now ranks next
to Germany. During the last nine
months we received from that country
62,21 immigrants, which was more
than double the number for the equiva-
lent period preceding. A few years
ago the immigration from Russia was
SO small that it was not worth mention
ing. But there is one country from
which the human stream is not subject
to spasmodic increases or decreases.
On the contrary, it flows steadily on
with gradually swelling volume, and
the characteristics of that land, next to
those of parent England, will always
have the greatest influence upon the
United States.
The German nation has long fur
nished US more immigrants than any
other, and even the great Russian squirt
has not been able to pass it. The Ger
man movement, which began a half
century ago, has been throughout that
time unchecked, and is now larger than
ever before. During nine months the
total of arrivals from the German en-
pire was rs, 1913, and the Germans from
Austria, 20,497, this being an increase
of about seventeen per cent. in one year.
The immigration from England, Scot
land and Wales does not change much
from year to year, but remains close to
$4,000 annually. Wilhelm certain years
Russia, Italy and other countries may
go ahead, yet the island of Great Britain
remains, next to Germany, our chief
source of human supply. Contrary to
the general belief, the immigrants from
Great Britain are much more numerous
than those from Ireland. There have
been periods when there was an enor-
nous influx from Ireland, but for many
years it has averaged not more than |
30, 600 annually. Obviously the Scandi- |
navian blood-and a vigorous red blood |
1t isis destined to figure conspicuously |
in the composition of the American of |
the future. The arrivals from Sweden,
Norway and Denmark are next in i'm
portance to those from Great Britain |
and Germany, and exceed by one-fourth |
those from Ireland. The Bohemian and |
immigration is still large, |
but is increasing very little, while that
from Poland has augmented consider
ably.
On the whole, after examining the
figures for many years, there is no rea-
son to change the opinion of earlier in
vestigators that the American race will
be essentially composition of the leu
tonic people of northern and central
Europe. 1t will be Anglo-German, with
a Celtic dash, and it is too late for the
Italian, Hungarian or Polish bloods to
have any effect upon it-Louisville