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

lation native born of American parent
age.
Compiled for the Globe-Democrat.)
In the northern states a large per-
centage Of the illiterate are of foreign
birth.
The total immigration from France
to this country has slightly exceeded
49, 600.
According to the eleventh census,
there are 2,00O.0OO Of Irish among our
people.
In Brooklyn only % per cent of the
population is native born of American
parents.
The average sum brought by the
foreign immigrant to our shores is less
than 800.
There are over twenty-five foreign
ers to the square mile in the state of
New York.
The immigrants from the Scandinav-
ian Peninsula and Denmark exceed
1000, 900 in number.
Native whites, born of native par
ents, form So per cent Of our national
voting strength.
The Scandinavian element is concen-
trated in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Dakota and Nebraska.
In Massachusetts the foreigners and
their children constitute Sc per cent OF
the entire population.
Chicago contains one-sixth OF all the
Poles in this country, and one-ffth OF
all the Bohemians.
The foreign population Of this coun-
| /. try, as a rule, find occupation in the un-
skilled lines of labor.
In Cincinnati and Milwaukee about
SO per cent of all the foreign population
are of German birth.
Over one-fourth of the entire popula-
ton of New York was born either in
Ireland or in Germany.
Michigan and South Dakota have a
foreign population equal to one-fourth
of the entire number.
The majority of the immigrants from
the south of Europe bring. all their
belongings in a canvas bag.
The Western States considered as a
whole, have % per cent Of foreigners
among their population.
New York City contains one-fifth OF
all the Russians in this country and
one-fourth Of all the Italians.
Of all the potential voting strength Of
this country IL, 0OO, 900 are of native and
1900, 900 of foreign birth.
Pennsylvania and Illinois have from
fifteen to twenty-five foreigners to each
square mile of area.
Over Sc per cent Of the immigrants
who come to this country settle in the
North, West and Northwest.
1t is said that in the Italian colonie:
of New York there are hundreds OF per
sons who speak no English.
OF the total number OF Immigrant
to our shores over 40 per cent have
come from the United Kingdom.
The tide of Irish immigration wa!
highest in the 40s; that of German i'm
migration from 1848 to 1866.
The Germans outnumber all othel
foreign elements in the states of Ohio
Indiana, Wisconsin and Missouri
Chicago has only 20 per cent of it
population of native birth, the rest be
ing foreigners or their children.
The foreign element, in a greater pro
portion than the native population
settles in the cities of this country.
The percentage of foreign to nativ'
population in 1850 was 9 per cent; il
1890 it had increased to IA per cent.
The number of foreign born miner
in this country exceeds that of native
engaged in the same calling.
Milwaukee is really a foreign cit.
only 13 per cent of it's population be
ing native born of American parentage
The less desirable foreign elemen
has settled chiefly in the North AM
Northwestern districts of our country
The tide of foreign immigration ha
never invaded to any serious extent
the country south of Mason and Dixon
line.
In Rhode Island the foreigners an
their children in the first generation
constitute So per cent of the entire pop
ulatiOn.
German immigrants almost Away
bring their families. The south of Eu
rope immigrants more frequently com
alone.
In that section of the country know
as the North Central States 18 per cen
of the entire population is of foreig
birth.
The Scandinavians, that is to say, tn
Swedes, Norwegians and Danes, forT
one-half the foreign element in Mime
sofa.
In Minnesota and Wisconsin nativ
white voters form only % and % pc
cent respectively of the total votin
strength.
In 1890, the twenty-eight larges
cities of this country had a populatio
of 5000, 900, of which a little owe
1000, 900 were foreign.
In the states of New York, New Jer
sey, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas tn
Germans have one-third of the tots
foreign population.
The largest foreign population
found in Minnesota and Wisconsin
where over one-third of the entire nun
Der are foreigners.
It is stated by an eminent authorit
that most lines of unskilled labor j
the northern states are monopolized b
the foreign element.
In Wisconsin n Minnesota thret
fourths of the entire population are
either of foreign birth or native born
children of foreign parentage.
There are considerable numbers
Italians in New York who return
Italy every autumn and spend the wiz
ter in their native land. They mai
enough during the summer in Ne
York to enable them to live in luxu1
9 in the winter.
In the Bohemian districts in Chicas
the English language is rarely hear
and the visitor might easily imagir
: himself in the Erzgebirge.
The children of foreigners, as a rul
use English in preference to the LAM
uage of their parents, especially aft
they begin to go to school.
The Irish form the largest proportie
of the foreign population in Connect
cut, being ove one-third of the entil
foreign element in that state.
e The British Isles have furnished ov'
r @,.,o birdc IF tho inmjOranfS who ha,