Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-08
ARE WE MONGRELS?
Is the United States Becoming
an All-Sorts Nation7
INCREASE OF IMMIGRATION.
A Most Alarming Subject 10 Consider-A
Timely Warning.
An Array Of Curious But Startling Faels.
How Germany Italy, Ireland Wales,
England, Scotland Pour Their
People In Open Us.
INCREASE OF IMMIGRATION.
n1or The snnlnr Gnzellcl

Washington d. O., Ian. 4.-Half q
century ago ours was an American un-
ton. The slultn of immigration from
Europe had l0r two and "a bali centuries
flowed so slowly that Il had been ,Hkcn
up aud assiininrad into our community
complctely Foreigners found thcui-
selves loo such minority thar they had
mo- choice but 10 Amcricanizc themselves
as quickly and 0s thoroughly ns possible.
AZ late ns 1915 there was worry little
forrigl blood, and mo- foreign language
or Ideas iu the country Then came the
dplugc ln loss than half century
nearly l5dOuOO0 immigrants huvc bern
poured uuou us FROM Europe micra.
ton of civilized people without "a parallel
iu history
Ia the ten years between 1870 and 1870
only li3OOO immigrants entered the
country and In the next decade, 1870 10
1870 the number increased 10 nearly
100000. I'm the decade following, it
lpapcd tO 100000, most of which ar
rived during the last two or three years
preceding 1850. Between 1850 and 1860
IL rose To- 100000. During the next.
the civil war decade e was reduced
slightly being about 100000, hat from
$50 20 1850 In spite Of the business de-
preston OF that time, tie number rose
90 the highest point yet reached. viz,
= 6lO,u,O. But during the Inst decade.
from 1850 TO 1890 the number ,yns nr
beyond anything heard OF before. In
this ten years 40 Tower than 5,2iT,OOO
Immigrants arrived IN our ports. one inn
migrant for every ten Inhabitants With
such Hood from all nations of Europe
pouring IN on us, these questions may
well press upon MS for solution.
Ol what uaionalltios ~ this immigra-
tiouy
What Is It's status Of moral and cdu-
cationf
What Is 10 he It's influence upon Amor
icQn citizenship, npon business and social
Can the American nucleus of the nopn-
lotun 0sNmilate this enormous body of
mixed natlonNlities 90 lbs own idrns and
social cohdi ionsf
a series of fnmiues IN ireland started n
migration 0f the people of Tint uuhnppy
island, which In FIFTY yeuIs. has reduced
its population from S,l01 O0O In 1914 to
ithEi, lU3 in 1901 10 reduction of over
luNuoO on 90 per cent Of ths enor-
| NOUS number three and uup-half mill
lions or scycn-elghts, have found homes
! in thia country.
between 1910 and 1850 100000 Irish
men abandoned their poverty stricken
homes in Green Erin and came 10 this
country. ln succeeding decades. the num-
| yer ms been less hui has averaged moro
than half million per decade.
The English, Scotch aud Welsh have
collectively formed an Important element
of the Immigration, thcW numbers hnv.
ing gradually Increased During thp
carly years Of the Irish immigration.
they were largely outnumherel by the im.
migrants from l'Iin, while in tho pnst two
dncades they have been iR the mnioritv.
| The total Immigration from Grcnt Rritnin
executing ireland numbers over . SO0pnO
lmmlgr0hOn of Germans in large num-
hers commenced almost MS carly MS The
Irish Immigration, under tho stimulus.
/ nr1hNW Of political troubles T-n tn
800 I was not as active as that OF The
! Irish, hnt between 1880 and 1850 II ey.
ceeied it slightly, and since then Inns
Ereaiiy exceeded Il In the last decade
,ht number OF Herman immigrants has
been more than double that OF Tho Irish.
! entire number Of iwmigrauts ftnm thn
German states exceeds $500 600
lInnl recent wears theso countries fnr.
mshed the grpat body Of tho hnn,irro.
ton. Beiwccn 1910 and 1850 thov nv.
nlslied seven-righths, between fS50 anl
/ lNll nlnctouths and between $50 ma
$50 nearly seyencighths of an tho hn-
About 1870 other notiouallties hecon
20 NssWinc nroWipencc, OF the ita,ni-
grafton between 1870 and 1850 the INK
portion ~ The British and German XIX
nenis declined ~ loss tban tvNthir,ls
ANA between 1851 md 1870 was bit M.
! w moro thun one-h1f of the ontlre IN.
imefatiou. This change ir nationality
n stu moro slrongy emphasixod Ia the
year British aud Germans constituted