The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12

Maine n New Hampshire, One-half OF
that Of Vermont, and one-third of that
of Massachusetts,.
The South Atlantic States have the
smallest proportion Of foreigners tf any
portion Of the country. Only about 2
per cent OF the entire number are Of for
eign birth.
Over one-half of the Italians, Poles,
and Russians who have come here to
find a home have settled in our large
cities; nearly one-half the Irish have
lone likewise.
In skilled labor, such as that of the
blacksmith, ~wagon-maker, shoemaker,
and the like, the proportion Of foreign
to native labor is not so large as in un-
skilled labor.
White native Americans, of American
parents, are actually in the minority in
this country; foreigners, their children
and the colored element outnumbering
the native.
British blood is in the lead among orr
native population, the British and Irish
and their immediate descendants form
ing two-thirds of the population and
three-fourths Of the whites.
In unskilled labor the foreign popula-
ton bear to the native the proportion of
on to two, that is to say, nearly one
half of the unskilled labor of this
try is done by foreigners.
OF the population of st. Louis, 26 per
cent are native born of native parents;
AZ per cent were born in America of
foreign parents; 26 per cent are foreign
born, and 6 per cent are colored.
1t is believed from the statistics that
have been gathered that a large per-
centage Of our foreign immigrants come
from tho oifioc ~ thu old Xrnr1d ond
very naturally, sought the cities of the
New.
France has furnished fewer immi-
grants to the United States than any
other large nation of Europe. During
the ten years preceding 1890 only about
so, 900 persons left France for this III
try.
Over one-third Of the Is, 900, 900 immi-
grants who have come to this country
since immigration statistics were col
lected by II government came during
the 10 years between 1880 and 1880.
There is less than one foreigner to the
square mile in Montana, Wyoming, Col
orado, Utah, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada,
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and all
the other Southern States.
The proportion of foreigners and their
children to natives is greatest in North
Dakota, where over four-fifths of the
entire population are either foreigners
or native born children of foreign pa
rents. N
The most extreme case of foreign
predominance in his country is found
in the city of Ishpeming, Mich. The
population numbers II, 900, of which
only 6 per cent are natives of native pa
rents.
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pie and PIC, 900 Germans. Only the lar
ger cities in Ireland and Germany have
a greater population of their own peo-
pie than is to be found in our CONNER
cial metropolis.
In 1880 the foreign population of the
United States comprised one-seventh
Of the whole, but of the learned pro-
LESSONS, such as lawyers, doctors and
teachers, only one person in eleven was
of foreign birth.
Aliens, that is unnatura1ized foreign
ers residing in this country, are found
only in the North, and are mostly Can
adams, who come to this country for a
working season and return to their
homes in Canada to remain during the
rest of the year.
There was little immigration from
Germany to this country until the polit-
ical troubles of 1913 and the following
years, which induced many of the revo-
~lutionists to leave their native country
and thus set an example which was
soon followed.
The English, Welsh and Scotch in
our midst lumber 1880, 900; immi-
grants from the British Isles, from Ire
land and British America number to-
gether 4,40O, 900, SO that what may be
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largely in the ascendant over all
others.
The influx Of the south of Europe
people during the last ten or fifteen
years has tended materially to lower
the standard of foreign immigration, as
the immigrants from Italy, Bohemia
and Hungary are, in many respects
inferior to those from the north of Eu
rope.
During the last twenty years the
immigration from Italy, Bohemia, Pc
land, Russia and Hungary has beer
larger thar ever before. known. Only
in the last few years have the people Of
these countries seemed to realize the
ADVANTAGES to be gained from emigra.
ton to America.
It has been conjectured by some stat.
istcians that the rate of increase Of
our native population has been ma
terially diminished by the influx of for
eigners. According to the Malthusiar
law of population, increase of density
is invariably accompanied by a de
crease in the birth rate.
The immigration to our shores has
been largely guided by consideration:
of temperature. The Scandinavians
coming from a northern climate, have
settled in the coolest portions Of thu
country; the Germans, from a warmer
region, have sought the temperate zone
while the British have spread them
selves all over the country.
Before 1920 there was comparativel.
little immigration to this country, say
from the British Isles. The induce
ments held out to immigrants were no
sufficient to impel them to undertake
the long and dangerous voyage with tn
8 certainty of much arduous labor, com
paratively i'll paid, when they reaches
this country.
immigration statistics were not col
lected in this country, previous to 1920
and the figures before that date ar
merely conjectural. Since 1920 Their
have been over $4,000, 900 immigrants t
, this country from the Old World
, There is no other record Of such
: movement of peoples having takel
place in history. Whether considers
; with regard 70 the numbers, with re
: gard to the shortness of the time, 0
the distance traversed, this movemen
is unique and unparalleled.