The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-11-26
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The estimated total Of immigrants 20
the United States from the close of the
Revolutionary War to. June 1880 is about
1856, 600. OF the immigrants who ar
rived during the decade ending 1890, so
per cent were males and SO per cent fe-
males. OF the 5,246,6l3 persons who
came as immigrants during that period
81 per cent were under Is years, 68 per
cont we're between Is and 40, and 10 per
cent over 40, Italy furnishing the largest
percentage over 40, while Ireland fur
nished the highest per cent OF immi,
grants between is and 40 years and the
lowest per cent? above the latter age.
The highest percentage Of children came
from Germany and the lowest from Hun
gary during that decade. During the %
years ending June 30, 1890, 1927 1888 inn
migrants came from Europe, 1890, l35
being from Ireland alone. The most of
these people took storage passage, being
unable to pay for better accommodations
on board ship. We are confident that
the Democratic party which is largely
composed of naturalized citizens, especi-
ally of those from Ireland, will never en-
act any laws to prevent the proper kind
of immigrants from coming to this coun-
try. During the past ten years more
than 10 per cent of the immigrants be-
longed to skilled occupations, embracing
blacksmiths, carpenters, coopers, iron
workers, machinlsts, printers, gardeners,
tailors, dressmakers, miners, etc. The
professional class, such as musicians,
teachers, clergymen, lawyers, physicians
and artists made up per cent, while
moro than AZ per cent we're without any
occupation. The rest we're classified as
miscellaneous, and included laborers,
farmers, servants and merchants. There
is plenty room here yet for skilled tabor,
but the Republican party by it's per-
nicious policy Of protection would con-
fine the field of skilled labor to few
districts whore they rule supreme, be-
cause in those districts they control the
working elements, but at the recent cleo
ton they reckoned without their host.
The Sclavonic element, whose immigra-
tion receives an impetus in the expulsion
from Russia of the prosecuted Jews, may
not constitute the proper material for
American citizenship, but they come as
refugees which England, France and
Germany will not receive, and where else
can they go if this land of the free re-
fuses them shelter? The American in
stinct is to extend hospitality to the op-
pressed of all races and climes, and surely
in this stage of the life of the great
American republic, no such laws as dis
graced the administration of John Adams
should find place in our statutes.
The Irish people by oppressive English
laws fed from their native land by the
thousands some forty years ago, and
sought refuge here like the Jews of Rus
STA are doing to-day. They were not
skilled laborers, for they had come from
country without manufactures; but
they had strong arms and went to work
to develop the natural resources OF this
new country, and in course Of time be-
came comparatively prosperous and
happy. When the Irish came, some
croakers proclaimed that the labor mar
ket was over stocked, though not one
tenth OF our $4,000 miles Of railroads had
then been constructed. We have not yet
reached the limit of our capacity for the
absorption of the labor overflow OF
Europe. There is "work and bread for
all,' and the United States should ever
hold it's arms wide-open to the oppressed
people of the old world, with whose aspi
rations for liberty the American people
naturally sympathize. The Democracy
of the country will see to it that.no harsh
laws will be enforced to keep away the
discontented subjects Of European mon
arches from the hospitable shores of the
New World.