The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-06-15
IMMIGRATION BY DECADES.
Proportion of Foreign Born TO Tota
Population tor Forty Years.
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New York Sun
Washington City. May ZS.-It is a long
time since so elaborate a study OF tmfni-
grafton statistics has been made in con-
grezs as during the recent debates upon
thu Lodge bin in the senate. and upon
the Mccall Ill., with It's ccrliss amend
rnerE in the house. II Is worth noting.
by the way. that these TWO measures. al
though directed to the same purpose Of
applying 10 the immigrant a reading and
writing test, differ g little in details Ine
Lodge bEli excludes persons over Ia years
OF age who cannot read and write some
language, except that the parents or
grandparents OF an admissible Immigrant
may accompany him OF be sent for by
him The Mccall bill makes the ages for
the reading and writing test between Is
and 60 with an exception in favor or the
parents OF persons now living here or
hereafter admitted The Mccall bill also
contains provisions for further enforcing
the contract labor law upon Immigrants,
and for modifying immigration rom t-h-
ada.
Careful and detailed records OF imnni-
gration have been kept since the year
ISza. and those OF previous years were rel
ativelv urfmpOrtant. since not until the
year ending September ~. Isl, are 1900
arrivals In A year recorded. And. In t2ct,
% 20 ls5s the records OF alien arrivals
=
they were separated into imuigrant and
non-irairigranr classes. The most famous
decade in Immigration WIS the one from
1851 TO Iss0 inclusive. for which tina Hs-
ures were, IN the aggregate. Sr-4s-oAss
whereas the previous decade had shown
only zSl7.Isl. and the decade from J4nu-
airy l. ISs1, TO June g. Isso. only z,sl4,s-A
Another famous decade OF high uae IN
immigration was the one from ISL to isse.
when the total OF allen passengers and m
migrants was 5sS I'd. whereas the pre-
vious decade had seen but 1.Ei3-S1i. ths
decade from rSzf 10 1880 cniy 50. l2s. ard
the one from 1871 20 I<s9 only 1883. 80
FAR as can he Judged from rs first hair.
the current decade will not quite come I'd
70 IT'S predecessor. the reckoning 70 20
GSS showing total OF 9.2s0.s7A Sfii, there
may be another food tide before fsel
I'd 20 the end OF the last fiscal year The
statistics showed aa aggregate. since lsNh
az ITTVNSsf persons. 1t - 20 be Feulefn-
bered that these included alien passengers
IN the earlier years not immigrants. but
on the other hand, Immigrants from Brit
ssh North America ard Mexico have not
been Included since Juiy /. 1ss5. Perhaps
in round numbers we NAV expect the tg-
urss IN 70 the 1scni year Iss8 70 show
nearlv n assoGa. Bat II IL noteworthy hat
Vghffa ffa immigration og the last fifteen
years has been pro6sEteus- TIE percentages
Of foreign born - total population has act
Greatly Increased during the last thirty
I've years. That IS 20 say. while the ae-
suaf number OF foreign born was s.@4a.54s
Il the csrsuz year IsAf CT more tn2n
double as much as IN 1sso. when = vas
GIzS.gg7, yet the percentage 20 the total
population vas only AZ II tie former
caze. against g IS In tbs Latter During
The Two intermediate ceastEs years re
percentages we're i4a and ~
a. -.
IRA country has an average Of e. fnhase-
nAuss per square Esale- This - little
e-rzzfar density than that @ %5r~ Az n}at
rot -ufta "a gr@8t az that o. Sweden X
Is oue-faurth that q Spain Or Grsece.
little more than one-ssFenth that % Ire
lard. and perhaps about ore tvrsnty-thirs
nart o. England We STU have rooEa.
sssrafsrs. FOR TIE right kin1 u isnms-
grants.
Turgn~ tne last fsczl year - ssS inarsi-
Grants arrived IN tbs country exclusive
u these gruEz British &crrh Af1eEfeA am
MEXICO Some published figures say thaf
fhe~a vas an actual Increase - i&8s3 tEn-
migrants frcsn Treisna. SIR from h1EtSzsd
ev-a Wales. Is from scotland. ard - from
E8naans whereas Al ether countries N
E.ssrssx,a xessvrAsl a decrease tEsEt & Ger
rna~r.s ar-sm~esrr to = So zn& tsas %
ftafv . Use. But during TIE current year
snere has been \ great Increase n iEnfzf-
graNsn from FtaiF. As 81 c1sst tie c.
fsa~~f-r II shTxe Ers~iI rants hzs ben car
I'D or 70 an unprecedented extent, tns
result be.nS 9 dect1e1 eGse< EEsa izz1zai-
s~atEsr srozn this source of late
Mea-ssz nas been zss3s ~ he fact thai
rs~sar 70 FSsa ne exact statistics q srnzni-
zrafse- we-@ kept. X has ae~r estimated.
Nawnvsw. xnat he4Eesa 80 And ~ Ss0sst
"a ~ fvzvnfzrazts rs4y hare ssftAea IN TIE
ssszs~trw The figures Also saf2e@ 4s2s are
ner as aesar&ts as cn-EI& - essre9. frefn
sas causes a2rsAs-y EzsEtsoEassa Ass1 also
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