The Press., 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 clements 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 CTS to thApillion of persons of each of the important groups to be as follows Scandinavian, TIT; Slav, 1,O26; German ic, 1,Os3; North, and South American, 2,101; Great Britain and Ireland, e,577; Latin natSns, 2,S19; all others, 3,533.
 Of the Separate countries, which are the chief contributors to our immigrant pop ulation, the ratio of prisoners to the mill lion which each furnished was: Italy, 3,115; Iceland, 2,971; France, 2,4es :: England AHA; Hungary, 2,Os3; Scot land, 1,97 Canada and Newfoundland, 1,e2e; stria, 1,4O4; Russia, 1,144 1; Germany ,065; Poland, 1,O11; Wales, sss; Denmark, s53; Holland, 746; Swe- den, 72s; Norway, 645; Portugal, 575 :; Bohemia, sO5.
 Certain races have certain characteris- 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 'thomicide" or murderer ' of French parentage, one in 4,1G4; Hungarian, one in 4,36O; Irish, one in $500; English, one in s,366 {; Scotch, one in S,454; German, one in 15, 100; United States, including negroes, one in IS, fB2; (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 2os806; Russia, one in e1 ,57s 7: Danish, one in 24,306; Norwegian, one in 31 ,442; Bohemian, one in 31 ,594. Of the other two chief crimes against the persen-foF rape" Italians furnished one in IS, 151A rRnce, one in 29, ,5Oe; then after l4tinct interval rank in order
 salalfi Inelsnd. Bohemia ; = lte6 States, Wales, Russia, Sweden; and, with a drop of nearly one-half, Norway, one in 275, IA. "Assaults, one in 1862 persons of Italian parentage; one in ,25S of Irish; one in 3, 1920 of English; one 5,616 of Scotch ; one in 5,S02 of French; one in 12, ,694 of German; one in 7,47S of Swedish one in 19, 50 of Russian: one of g. SIS of Bohemian; one of g, 142 of United States parentage, and one in 2S,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" She 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 characteristically 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 ''public intoxication" the ra- tio of Irish prisoners Is one for 1 .554. nearly twice as much as for the next high est, the Scotch, one for 2,956; English, one for 3,64O; French, one for GAS ; Welsh, one for 12,13O; Swedes, one for 13,53s; then the Hungarians, Danes, Norwegians and Germans, about one-sixth to one-seventh as much as the Irish the Italians about one- fifteenth 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-frst as much For .disorder- ly conduct" the ratio is one for 2,S4O !; Scotch one for 5,276, or little more than one-half as much France, one for 1924 ; England, one for 7,5S0; Hungary, one for 7,752; Italy, one for 11,8OO; 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 eases. For "breach of the peace' the ratio of the Irish to the Scotch is nearly as 13 to 1; to the French born, about !; to Russian. 13 to Italian, 9 to 1; to English, 5 to l i; to Germans, more than to 1; to Norweglans, more than to 1 {; to natives of the United States, more than II to 1; Welsh, Bohemians, Swedes, Danes, Hungarians, Austrians, no cases. IN. ENo. He Had Travelled.
 Now" said the intrepid explorer after he had shown the guileness native