The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-09-01
NO. ~.
ANGLO-SAXONS IN AMERICA.
The Magnitude OF the Hibe rinu Elc.
ment Has Been Nuch
OverrNtcd.

lea takes exception to our recent re-
marks concerning Mr.. Davitt and the
Anglo-Saxons.'' He wants to know
where we got our statistics showing
that before 1921 the Anglo-SaXon pop
ulation OF this country far outnum-
bered the Irish, and that since that
date, or down to 1890, England has
sent us considerably more than two
thirds as many immigrants as ireland.
The answer is easily given. Before
1920 there were no statistics on the
subject. But it is perfectly well
known that the vast majority of CO.
lonial settlers in this country were
English and Scotch. The Puritans of
New England were certainly not Irish.
Neither were the cavaliers of Virginia.
The fewness of Irish settlers in the
colonies is marked in the fact that
while practically all Irishmen at that
time were Roman Catholics, practical
ly all the colonists, excepting in Mary
land, were Protestants. Since 1920
statistics are available. We found
ours in the United States census re-
ports, which are commonly considered
pretty trustworthy. Those reports
show that from 1927 to 1890 there came
to this country from England and
Wales 2,43O,3sO; from Scotland. 323.-
2S3, and from Ireland. 3,4S1.O74. If.
then, as is scarcely disoutabe. the
Anglo-Saxon race greatly predomi-
mated in this country before 1921, and
since that date has furnished more
than twO-thirds as many immigrants
as the Irish, It seems reasonable to
reckon that it to-day considerably ly out
numbers the Irish.
The fact is, as we have before OBJ
served. that the magnitude of Irish
migra ,ion to this country is common
y much overrated. According to the
United States census reports. only
$40 per cent. of our population in 1850
was of Irish origin, against 800 per
cent. of Germans. Or. if we turn O the
| statistics of the British board Of trade,
we find that in the 30 years from 1853
to 1888 S,G75,475 emigrants left the
British Isles for destinations Outsids
of Europe, and Of these 40 per cent.
Irish and ten per cent. Scotch. In the
ten years, 1SSl-9O, the number of Eng
lish and Welsh immigrants to this
country was actually greater than
that of Irish. And since 1890 there is
| reason to believe the same condition
has prevailed. Irish emigration is
steadily decreasing, while that from
i.
| other European countries is cnor-
lpously increasing.
Our correspondent also takes excrp-
ton to the statement that the people
| OF America think the same thoughts,
| cherish the same ambitions and are
moved by the same spirit as the Eng
lish. "The chief ambition of Encland,"
he says, "has been and is to seize every
country she can lay hands on" Yet
| the cold fact is that she has seized less
land than some of her rivals. She
| never grabbed as much in America as
did Spain. She has not nearly as much
in Africa as France, and in Asia her
grabbings are a mere trifle compared
with RusSia's. Is not that land grab
bing :eproach growing a bit stale?
| ''To keep the natives in poverty and
sub jection,' continues the critic Yet
it is perfectly well known that Great
Britain treats subject races much bet
ter than other conquering powers.
Compare the condition of the negroes
in Jamaica with that of our own ne
groes Il generation ago. or even to-day.
Or contrast England's treatment Of
the Indians in Canada with our treat
mcnt of our Indians. Or contrast Eng
lands treatment of any subject race
with Spain's in South America, or tina
of the Beers in South Africa, or that
of such Germans as Carl Peters in
Africa, or that of the Russians in Cen
tral Asia, as pictured by Nassili Verest-
chagin
Great Britain is in no need of having
her cause pleaded here and now. But.
i'm the interest of simple truth, it is
well to look at facts as they are, and
not as discredited tradition or 100 fer
vent imagination pictures them.-N.
y. Tribune.
Toxine Kennedy Against Locusts
There is Il good deal for the farmer
to think over in the story received
from Mashonaiand, Africa, of the eff
cacy Of the toxine remedy against To-
Gusts. One farmer who procured a
supply of locust toxine from the gov.
| ernment saws that as inOcuIateu To-