The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-03

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of foreigners on the population cannot
he accurately told, rs we have no rec
ord Of the return migration. There is
practically no return migration Of the
British nations. A large number of
the Germans return, and the so-called
Hungarians (Slav subjects of Hungary,
but not properly Hungarians) are hard
ly ever permanent settlers. The French
speaking Belgians and Swiss, and the
German-speaking Swiss, go to swell
the French and German elements.
There is little return migration among
them. While three million and thirty
thousand Germans have arrived since
1860, but two million seven hundred
and eighty-four thousand are resident
at present. Bearing in mind that Il
considerable part of those who arrived
before 1860 are still alive, it will be seen
that losses by death cannot account for
the discrepancy. 1t would take death
rate exceeding one hundred in thou
sand to do it, and the rate of the cOun-
try seldom exceeds twenty. Three
hundred and seven thousand Italians
arrived between 1880 and 1890, yet on
ly one hundred and eighty-two thou
sand are resident. The Hungarians
show Il like large return migration.
From figures Of the resident British,
French. and Scandinavians, it would
appear that few of the immigrats from
those nations return home The French
Canadians, of whom we have about
eight hundred thousand, formerly birds
of passage, are now permanent settlers
Here we have Celts and Teutons IN al
most the proportions that formed the
English nation. The large Celtic i'm
migration antedated the Teutonic, but
the high death-rate of the Irish has kept
its proportions down. While the death
rate of Ireland is but eighteen in 4
Thousand, the death-rate of the Irish in
America is twenty-siX, and the birth
rate of the race has sunk to within a
few per cent. of that Of Francs. From
the number of Germans must be sub
tracted the Prussian Poles, Alsatians
and Lorrainers, Silesians, Let's, and
Wends, people who appear in immigra-
ton statistics as Germans because citi-
zens of the empire. Most of our Jews
are reckoned us Germans. All sorts
of estimates, ranging from the prob
able one of two hundred thousand to
the improbable one Of two millions, are
made of the number of our Jews. The
Jewish population being entirely ur-
ban, people are misled as to the num-
Der, and greatly overestimate it. For
eigners are prone to cNaggerate their
numbers in this country. An enthusi-
astic Irish potentate recently assured
the country that twenty million IRISH
were ready to march against England
under the Stars and Stripes. If all
Irish born since 1900 were still alive,
they could not muster one-tcnth that
number of soldiers. In 1892 all the
foreign-born and the children one or
both of whose parents were foreign
numbered little over seventeen mil
lion. The backbone. and by far the
most numerous element, Of the pOpu-
lation draws it's descent from the island
of Great Britain. If accessions from
that land have not been so numerous
rs from some others, it must be remem-
b red that the original population was
of this blood. and that until recent
years its percentage ofincrease was the
highest the world has ever seen. The
percentage of increase of this popula-
ton during. the Revolution, period Of
war and political unrest, when thou
sands of Tories were leaving for Eng
land and English colonies, was four
greater than the percentage of increase
of the last twenty-five years with all
the immigration. Had there never
been any foreign immigration after the
revolution, perhaps the country would
have larger population tC-day.
The elements added t. the Ameri-
can nation have been so we'll balanced
that they will not change the English
character of the population. The Celt
of Britain and the RomaniZed Celt of
France. the scandinavian Teuton and
the German Teuton, are all here As
they were in Britain. If it he object
ed that the Norman-Frcnch were not
Frrnch-though modern historians
aurcr that there was little Morse blood
i'm thcm-wc may answer that French
Canada was settled from Normandy.
II is true that the Irish Cclt is not
identical with the kymric Celt, and
herein the American will differ slight
" from the Englshman. We have
Jews in our population. The English
had Jews in their population and alb
Sorhed them, and we will absorb them
too for it is only persecution that has
kept them distinct nation. There