Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-26
SOME PECULIAR FACTS.

This table reveals some peculiar facts which
it would be difficult to account for. Among all
the great states north of the Ohio Indiana has
the smallest percentage Of alien population
per cent. while Ohio. the adjoining state on
the east, has 10 per cent. Illinois on the west
has - per cent. and Michigan on the north side
has 26 per cent. foreign population. Why have
the foreigners settled all around Indiana in
such great numbers and left that state prac-
tically alone: Then, again. Missouri. just
across the great river from Illinois. has very
small alien element. only per cent OF the to-
tai population. Missouri is the fifth state Of
the Union, but is twelfth in point of foreign
population In all the southern states. it will
ue seen. the alien element is insignificant. it
being but per cent. in North Carolina and
less than per cent. in several other southern
states. On the other hand the most
northern states have the largest proper
ton of foreign population-New York.
20 per cent: Michigan &c per cent: Wisconsin.
81 per cent: Minnesota. IS per cent; North
Dakota. 45 per cent: Montana. 33 per cent, and
Washington. 26 per cent. The foreign popula-
ton of all the far western states, although
numerically small. is proportionateIy large,
but at the same time it is worth notin" chat
more than one-third of the foreign settlers have
never got more than 200 miles away from New
York city.
Fully as much interest is attached to the
sources of this alien population to its extent.
In the United States there are 9S0933 persons
from Canada and Newfoundland. 1853 from
Mexico 1872 from Central America. 5OO6 from
South America. %. PSI from the West Indies,
3Os.IH from England. 242.231 from Scotland.
100 O79 from Wales. 1s71 500 from Ireland 49,
S94 from Germany. 123.21 from Austria. 81 -a2S
from Holland. -. 6S9 from Belgium, 1O4059 from
Switzerland, 2.66o from Norway, 478.O4 from
Sweden, 132. 543 from Denmark. 1854 from
Russia. g.. 435 from Hungary, 1l8.106 from Be-
he,nia. 147 40 from Poland. 1881 la from France
~, $50 from Italy, 6185 from Spain. 49, S6 from
Portugal. 1897 from Greece. 100 $50 from China
s-29a from Japan, 2,a07 from Africa. 5.9s4 from
Australia.
The English. Scotch and Irish are pretty
evenly distributed over the country. while han
the Welsh are in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The
Germans seem to prefer the north central
states, as there are ,570112 Of them in that di-
vision. The Scandinavans are almost all in
the states Of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa and North and South Dakota. Minnesota
alone having 101 1853 Norwegians. 99.9l3 Swedes
and 14.133 Danes, almost one-sixth of that
states entire population being OF Scandinavian
birth. The SlavS as whole are generally con-
Sidered the most undesirable element OF our
foreign population. although among them are TO
be found great many good citizens. There are
over half a million representatives. of this race in
this country of which fully one-fifth are in
New York state. 60. 433 in Pennsylvania, and
81 in Illinois. Illinois leads all other states
in it's Bohemian and Polish population while
Nebraska stands next in the number OF Bohe-
rnians within its borders. Singularly- there
are more Russians in South Dakota than in
any other state except New York and Pcnnsyl-
vania. The great majority OF the Hungari-
ans are in Pennsylvania. New York.
Ohio and Illinois. One-sixth of the
French and one-third of the Italians are in
New York. and nearly two-thir1s of the Por-
tuguese are in California. The south gets
larger share of the Latin race than it does of
any other. Louisiana especially having large
share of them. California. of course. has the
greater part of the Chinese population. There
arc Al O65 CeleStials in that state. 9.4S5 in Ore
gon. 1873 in Washington and 3135 in New
York.
,i:Ssouri's alien population is mostly Ger
man and Irish. there being fc5.sj1-sEora
than ore-ha!f OF tie :otal-of the former. and
40.965 OF the latse. There are s.525 Canadians
in the state. 1858 English, 4.60l Scotch. 6,765
Swiss, $50, Swedes. AIS French. and 2,4i6
Italians. The Slav nations are not very we'll
represented there being but 2,414 Russians. ~
HungarianS. 1855 Bohemians. and ,651 Poles.
There are in the state rs Chinese. Japanese
IS people from India, ~ from Africa. los from
Australia. 80 from the Pacific islands. IS from
Turkey. and IS. born ut sea. Some OF tse
counties of Missouri have q very large Ger
man population. notably St. Louis, 1858;
St. Charles. 300; Franklin. 3.s61; Gasoon-
ade 2,G6; Cole 1851: Usage, l.s50-all Mis-
souri, river counties. The aliea population. u.
the southern counties is remarkably small