The herald., 1894-12-11
THE FOREIGN POPULATION.

The latest census bulletin gives sta
tistics of foreign parentspe in 36 states
and territories showing the number OF
| persons having one or both parents for
| eign born. From this tabulation it ap-
! pears that out OF q total population in
1889 OF so, l55 7S3, there were ii. 922, ,74i,
or 1886 per cent, who had either one or
both parents born in foreign countries.
Iu the 36 states and territories for which
the tabulations were com mpleted, the
whole number having either one or
both parents foreign born was 5,75S,-
| Sll. or q. S5 per cent of the total popu-
lation (26 35i .l24) of the states and ter
ritories considered. In these statss and
territories there were 2.673, 217 persons
OF foreign birth. or 40 OF per cent only of
all thu foreign born in the United States
in 1880, OF which number - 307 were OF
native parentage, that is. although OF
foreign birth themselves their parents
wers both native born. The whole
number OF persons of foreign birth who
were of foreign parentage. that ic, who
! had either one or both parents foreign
born, in these SO states and territories
was 2. $50 9l0, leaving 3095 90l persons
! who were OF native birth but OF foreign
parentage. In the United States as q
whole the foreign born persons in 1880
numbered 6 .679 8 i3 and the foreign born
persons of native parentsgs were. esti-
mated to be SO, 252. The whole number
Of icn IF =.
age in the United States in 1880, there.
fore. was, approximately, 6.646. .69l,
while the whole mum Der of native born
persons OF foreign parentage was, ap-
proximately, S,276,053.
In 1890 the tabulations regarding for
eign parentage comprehendsd for white
persons not only Ireland and Germany,
which were the only countries separate.
ly tsbulated in 1880, but also each OF the
countries comprising the nation ality
! groups used in 1880, as England, Scot
land and Wales, inateal oei Great
Britain Sweden, Norway and Denmark,
Instead OF Scandinavia; separation, &C.
cordng to French and English extrac-
tion, for Canada and Newfoundland; be.
sides giving IN addition thereto those
countries from which more recent con-
tributions of noticeable proportions have
been received, particularly during the
past decade, as Bohemia, Hungary
France. Italy and Russia. The colored
population in 1890 was only tabulated as
regards the number who we're either OF
native or foreign psrentage.
Considering fret the results arrived at
in 1890 in general way, il appears that
the whole nun Der OF persons of foreign
parentage, without regard to color, was
&c, ,676 GAG, or 33 OF per cent OF the total
population, which in 1890 was 62,622,-
250 The whole number OF white per.
cons of foreign parentage in 1890 was
20, $40 643, while the colored persons of
foreign parentege mum bered 156 .4D3.
The foreign white in 1890 nun bered
9,121 ,867, Of which 105, ,899. or Lie per
cent, were of native parentage, that is,
had both parents native born. The
whole mum 1er of foreign white persons
of foreign pGrentsge in 1899 was, there
fore 9,0l5, 1858, leaving IL .5J3. 675 native
white persons Of foreign parentaee. The
number OF foreign colorsd who were of
native parentage was not separately
tabulated in 1880