The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-08
SEX AMONG THE EMI0RANTs
Some Peculiar Facts That Have Never
Been Satisfactorily Explained.

Been Satisfactorily Explained.
From the New York Sun. ass
The publication of articles on the
subject of European immigration into
the republic of Venezuela has called
attention again to one of the curiosi-
ties of immigration which has never
been clearly explained and remains
therefore something of an enigma. IL
is well known that the foreign immi-
grants into this country from the
northern nations of Europe--Great
Britain. Germany, Russia and Scan
dinavia-have, like the early colonists
from the same countries, been pretty
evenly divided between the two sexes.
The emigration from the southern
countries of Europe. on the contrary,
Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal, has
been chiefly male and snto this fart.
perhaps, more than to any other Is
due the intermarriage of immigrants
and natives In South and Central
America and the general absence of
such marriages in North America, par
.ticularly in the United States and Can
ada. The emigration from Ireland, for
instance, for many years. has been
more largely made up of female than
of male Immigrants, while from Italy,
on the other hand, the proportion for
a period of more than 20 years is, male.
IS; female, %.
The total number OF immigrants to
the United States from 1S45, the first
year of large emigration, to 1895, a pc
Rod covering half a century, was in
excess OF 10000, 900. and more than 40
per cent was female, whereas the
large Spanish and italian emigration
to South America has been almost ex-
clusively male AS this matter is not
one of early occurrence, but continues
at present (the census figures resum-
ing their old dimensions since the i'm
provement of the times), II might be
supposed that the number of women in
those European countries from which
there is and has been practically no
female emigration, would be much
larger than in those countries which
have suffered a steady diminution
through the emigration of persons of
both sexes. But the contrary of this
Is shown by the figures of the Altman
ach de Gotha. In Italy, from which
there is very little female emigration,
the number of female inhabitants Is
actually less than the male inhabitants
in the ratio of 80 to 100. On the other
hand, in Great Britain, from which
the emigration of women has been con-
tinuous, they outnumber the men in
the proportion of 104 to 100. In all the
other countries of Europe from which
there is and has been a large female
emigration a majority of the inhabi
tants are women. In Russia the pro-
portion Is 102 women to 100 men, in
Germany 104 women to 100 men, in
Sweden log women to 100 men, and In
Denmark and Austria 103 women to
100 men. In France and Belgium the
equality of proportion between the
sexes Is very evenly preserved. Thus.
In France there are 1,004 women to 1000
men, and in Belgium the difference Is
smaller. there being 1,001 women to
1000 men.
A still more peculiar manifestation
of the same paradox. IL II may be so
considered, is found in the official re-
ports recently published in England OF
the emigration from that country dur
ing the last quarter of a century. In
1850 4Sih per cent. of the population of
Great Britain was male and Sly per
cent was female. Between 1860 and
1870 the female emigration was the
larger, yet by the census OF 1871 the
female population, increased the more
rapidly. From 1870 to 1850 the male
emigration was the larger but the fe-
male population increased the more
rapidly.