The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-06-16
SOME RACE TENDENCIES.

In past ages, when Intercourse was diff
ficult and modes of travel painfully slow,
''stranger" was almost synonymous with
''enemy," for war was the larger part of
history. We distrust the unknown, per-
haps instinctively; sometimes the event
justifies our distrust, sometimes 1t does
not.
Almost every race on earth is sending
emigrants to the United States, with their
characteristic race tendencies. We have
samples enough of some nationalities,
fairly to represent the race tendencies.
We ought to inform ourselves so as to
attract to our country the good and valu-
able elements and to repel the bad and
dangerous; and, since badness is so often
coupled with aggressiveness, knowledge
of the dangerous elements seems the more
urgent ofthe two.
A studs of the prisoners in the United
States in the census of 1890 by groups of
related nations shows the ratio of prison
ers to thApillion Of persons Of each of
the important groups to be as follows :
Scandinavian, III; Slav, ,O26; German
ic, 1,O83Y North. and South American,
2,101; Great Britain and Ireland, 2,577;
Latin nations, 2,819; all others, 1858.
OF the separate countries, which are the
chief contributors to our immigrant pop
ulation, the ratio of prisoners to the mil
lion which each furnished was: italy.
3,115; Ireland, 2,971; France, e,468
England 114; Hungary, 2,O83; Scot
land, 1,9T; Canada and Newfoundland,
1926; Asgstria, 1,404; Russia, liza
Germany ,O65; Poland, 1,O11; Wales,
$50; Dentnark, 853; Holland, 746; Swe-
den, 1898; Norway, 645; Portugal, 575 !;
Bohemia, 305.
Certain races have certain characters
tic race tendencies; for instance Latin
and Celtic nations are prone to crimes OF
violence. Thus, of our Italian popula-
tion, one In 2,2O6 was a "homicide'' or
murderer Of French parentage, one in
4,1G4; Hungarian, one in 1850; Irish,
one in $500; English, one in 1896
Scotch, one in 8,454; German, one in
IS, 100; United States, including negroes,
one in IS, 1872; (the ratio of crimes against
the person being nearly twice as great for
negroes as for native whites, but OF
crimes against society nearly twice as
great for whites as for negroes) Swedish,
one in 20.g06; Russia, one in 81 ,578
Danish, one in 24,3O6; Norwegian, one
In 81 ,442; Bohemian, one in 81 ,594. OF
the other two chief crimes against the
person. Erape" Italians furnished one
in 1s, 151 rance, one in 29,5Os; then
after tinet interval rank. in order
lail Treland, Bohemia
es16sslss AftGd States, Wales,
Russia, Sweden; and, with drop OF
nearly one-half, Norway, one in 275, ia.
'Assaults, +" one in 1869 persons of italian
parentage; one in 1858 of Irish; one in
$500 of English; one 5,616 of Scotch
one in $500 of French; one In 12. .694 OF
German one in 7,478 of Swedish one
In 19, 80 of Russian. one of %, ,81S of
Bohemian one of %, 142 of United States
parentage, and one in 28,216 of Norwe-
gian. The order for "fornication" Is the
same, except that Norway stands next,
before Germany, and Bohemia, Hungary
and Russia furnished no cases. For
adultery the order is-Italy, Denmark
England, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland,
France, Wales, United States, Norway
Hungary, Germany. Russia, Bohemia,
Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, no cases.
AS to other offenses than those due to a
vindictive and passionate nature, the
Italians are not prominent.
Habitual or nearly continuous drunken
ness is Enthusiastically Irish; next the
Welsh with less than half as much: then
the Scotch little less; then the English
with about two-sevenths as much; the
Germans with about one-thirteenth as
much; the United States natives with
about one-twenty-sixth as much the
French and the Norwegians with two
prisoners each; and Italy, Hungary, Den
mark, Sweden, Russia and Bohemia with
none. For 'tpublic intoxication" the ra-
Ito OF Irish prisoners Is one for 1 ,554.
nearly twice as much as for the next high
est, the Scotch, one for 1856; English,
one for 3,640; French, one for 6,448
Welsh, one for 1870; Swedes, one for
1883; then the Hungarians, Danes,
Norwegians and Germans, about one-sixth
Co one-seventh as much as the Irish the
Italians about one-fffteenth as much; the
Russians less than one twenty-sixth as
much; the Bohemians about one sixty
sixth, and the natives of the United States
one ninety-first as much For ''disorder-
ly conduct" the ratio is one for 2,84O ;
Scotch one for 5,276, or little more than
one-haIf as much; France, one for 1924 ;
England, one for 1880; Hungary, one
for 7,752; Italy, one for 1880; then
Sweden, Russia, Denmark, Germany Nor
way, with less than one-third as much as
the Irish, downward the United States
with about One-tenth as much; Bohemia,
no cases. For "breach of the peace" the
ratio of the Irish to the Scotch is nearly
as u to 1 to the French born, about /
to Russian. Il; to italian, 2 to to
English, 81 to / to Germans, more than
to /; to Norweglans, more than to 1
to natives of the United States, more
than II to L; Welsh, Bohemians, Swedes,
Danes, Hungarians, Austrians, no cases.
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He Had Travelled.
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