The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08
The Makeup OF the
american Nation.
DR.. Edward L. Cornwall in the sun.

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tion of the American people 1t is i'm
III possible to give the exact amounts
LII and proportions OF the different race
elements, except in the case of the
foreign-born section, which constitutes
about one-seventh Of the total population.
In the case of the remaining six-sevenths,
who are native born, we can give only
approximate estimates. and in making
some of these approximations we are
compelled to reason from imperfect data,
and even to do little judicious guessing;
but we are able to make estimates that
VII be near enough to the truth to serve
the purpose of ordinarily correct think
ing. For convenience, divide the Ameri-
can people, that is the white population,
into only four race classes-Angio-Saxon.
Continental Teutcnic, Celtic and misccl-
laneous. In the Anglo-SaXon l include all
of English and Scotch origin: in the Con-
tinental Teutonc the Germans, the Ger
man Austrians, the Dutch, the Swiss and
the Scandinavians in the Celtic, the irish
and Welsh; in the miscellaneous, the
Latins slavonians and all not otherwise
accounted for. In this classification there
Is an error in including all the Scotch
with the Anglo"Saxons, because the
Highland Scotch are almost pure Celts;
but that error is balanced by admitting
as Celts all the Irish, for the Irish of the
north are mostly Anglo Saxons and ,n
and colonized about 1400, introduced into
Ireland a large infusion of Anglo-Saxon
blood.
In my ar alysis / will work backward
from the cersus of 1890. That census
gives our total pc pcpulation in round num-
bers, as 62, 600 900, of which 1000 900 were
colored and So 600, 900 white. OF the 55 o0O,-
900 whites 100000 were of foreign and 49,
100000 of native birth. The 5000, 900 for
eigners are divided racially as follows
Anglo-SaXon, 100000; Continental Teu-
tonic, 100000; Celtic, 1900, 900: miscellan-
eous, 100000. OF the 46, 600 0O0 native
whites, 100000 were of foreign parent
age (at least had one foreign parent,
and 35.OOOOOO were of purely native pa
rentage. The 100000 natives of foreign
parentage are divided racially as follows:
Anglo-SaXon, 1900, 900; Continental Teu-
tonic, 100000; Celtic. 5000, 900: miscellan-
eous, 100000. The 350O0,000 native
whites, whose parents were also native
Americans, may be considered as de-
scendants of emigiants who came to this
country before 1910; and as the emigration
between 1890 and 1910 was very slight in
amount considerably less than millon),
and occurred mostly in the decade imme-
diately before 1910, these 80, 900, 900 must be
considered as almost entirely descended
from those who were here in 1890. An al
the descendants in the third and later
generations of all who came to this
country after 1890. These $500 900 native
Americans of post-colonial ancestry may
be divided as fellows: Anglo-Saxon, L.
OOOOOO Continental Teutonic, Celtic, and
miscellaneous each 100000.
To determine the racial constitution of
the 32,jOOO00 whom we have remaining, we
must find out to what races belonged
their ancestors in 1880 The white popula-
tion of the United States in 1890 was about
100000, and was distributed in three
nearly equal divisions in the New England
states, the middle Atlantic states and the
southern Atlantic states. The 900 900 In
New England We're almost solidly de-
scendants of The $4,000 English Puritans
who came to New England in the seven
teenth century mostly in the decade Cf
1850 TO 1910. After the first settlers came
New England received practically no
more immigrants until the present CEN
tury. The New Englanders of 1890 were
of more purely AnGlo-SaXon blood than
the people of England at the same time.
According to the estimate of a disting-
uished antiquarian, 9S per cent. We're of
pure seventeenth century English origin
The million whites living in the southern
states may be cIassed as all Anglo-Sax-
ons, though their Anglo-Sax blood was
Ipl puile SO pure as lndt OF the New Eng
landers. The million whites living in he
Middle states were of mixed blood. Be
sides the English element which certain
ly amounted to one-half, there were the
descendants of 10000 Holanders who
came in the seventeenth century, of 80 900
Germans who came in the eighteenth CEN
tury, OF numerous Scotch-Irsh and
French HuguenotS, and a few represen-
tatives of other nationalities. OF the g.
COO0OO white Americans of 1890, five-sixths
were Anglo-SaXons; the remaining sixth
were divided among the Continental Teu-
tonic, the Celtic and the miscellaneous
classes, the Teutonic embracing the larg
est share. Dividing, according to these
proportions, the 80, 100000 who in 1890 rep
resented the natural increase of the g.
OOOO 900 of $780, / find that the Anglo-SaX-
ons amounted to 27O0O,OO0, the Continental
TeutonS to 8 100000, the Celts to l,5OO,OOO
and the miscellaneous to 100000.
O.
Now. making a final summation, I find
that the $1,000 900 white Americans Of 1890
are racially divided as follows:
Anglo-SaXon of colonial ances-
Try ~ 900 900
Anglo-Saxon of American, but
post-colonial ancestry ............ 1000, 900
AnGlo-SaXon of foreign parent
age .,.......,.,.............. 1000, 600
Anglo-SaXon of foregn BIRTH. 1000, 900