New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-17
FRESHMEN IN AMERICA.
STATEMENTS AS TO THEIR NUMBER AND
ATTITUDE TOWARD ENGLAND

The siHs; oea.plsaou. ana tornidao', oPDonNsR 9
Day H aGes tn not rsh @ ss0S s e,
refuse his leadership He stands for himself. and
has ability enough 10 h9d his sTog and s ese
HIS figures, on which he bases the right OF an
an extreme exaggeration Of the number OF Irish
men born Of descent in the United States. sun
he to the g9'c na o os e'' was
those who took exception to estimate OF the
O. Vent seE to the fned aes
turns1a very proper source II VII be s1pp0sse o,.,
" Hove love does The az cefe ss.c.n hs Mos.
method Of computation quite original II does
credit to rs s wa ye IT wnss to- sy
estimate the relative numbers Of Anglo saxons
Amerc lean is 'V to 90 back to period near the
fancy Of The great Repuos ana aste5mae co AS
tribuied TO tho 100000 Of present-day American
hs locate 80 my a. o ias
s@a s sDd qEeS BataiG 1865 cansaa
oo other countries 5000, and IN the United states
fod increase eas Upon s the c O. in is would siSo
80 900 900 to-day figure thai would sta9d IN ne
Irish 100000 did to the English 5000 900 century
ago M we Lost 1000 5o Of our Tn peoRe by ,hs
in allowing 100000 OF loss TO the race OF to-day
that account keeping 20 the estimate ed
rate OF increase OF 60 per cent in the ninety-eig
years for both races alike though It Is well known
that Irish men and women have married earlier
and. as consequence. have had larger families
than their Anglo-Saxon neighbors and ] could.
therefore. claim larger percentage OF relative In
that account"
OF course. what is wrong here Independently OF
all figures and estimates is the imaginative notion
that every one descended from m Irish ancestor
and brought up IN the United States is to-day TO
be described a Saxon hater. The largest pro-
portion OF those Of that origin are now az Anert-
can as the Americans themselyes-aTe true native
Americans: and being such, have given them
lions taken from Great Britain and not certainly
from Ireland az a nation OF social Influence sepa-
rate. 1t is only the fresh immigrants or those at
any OF one generation or two who have any
best by their number party element In the
American elections. Certainly 100000 voted
as Mr. DRytt would suggest they ought to have
done. The fourth of that number would be nearer
the political record Nothing is clear than
that their position has been that OF minority
were nearly balanced Then the Irish
worth much to one the other. The predominant
sway IN affairs IN journalism, In general literature,
has do not say Anglo Saxon. because very
many who shared II OF Irish blood-but al
ways distinctly and deterrninedly opposed TO the
organizations that are irish In tho sense OF being
hostile England
Mt Davit may elaborate what calculations he
pleases OF a race sort, but whore he doubly falls
Is not only in being unable TO make good the claim
TO more than half his 1G000O IA q total but 10
show that than a proportion OF these are
Americas disadvantage TO be In friendship with
Great Britain. Even the Irish party in the States
that would necessarily resist such alliance has
been itself Of late years melting away.