Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-29
THE CENSUS OF 1900.
THE MOST REMARKABLE YET TAKEN
BY THE UNITED STATES,

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The next census, to be taken in 1900,
though limited in It's scope to an emu
meration of the inhabitants, their in
terests and industries, and the coun-
try's products, is in some other re-
spects likely to be the most remark
able yet taken by the United States
Government, announces the Sun.
| Following the close Of the Civil War
there was, of course, decrease i'll the
rate of growth consequent upon the
fatalities incurred in, and caused by,
the hostilities in the field and their
after effect. But in 1880 the increase
was again thirty per cent, and in
1880 it was twenty-five per cent. In
the 1900 census of the United States
there will be shown not only
an increase in the area of the
United States but an enormous addi-
tion to the non-English speaking pop
ulation, and complete readiustment
of the foreign-born population, due
partly to annextion, partly to immi.
grafton, and partly to the normal in.
crease of the elements of population.
In the year 1880, by the census of
that year, the number of residents of
the United States born in the Turkish
Empire was 1905. By the census of
1890 the number was 1888, an increase
of fifty per cent. in ten years. Since
1890, however, there has been a large
influx of Turkish, Armenian and Sy.
rian immigrants. The last report of
the Treasury Department shows the
number of such immigrants for the
year ending July 1, 1898, to have been
4275. During the preceding year,
ending July 1, 1897, the Turkish i'm
migration was 4732, and there are
now, instead of 18O0Turkish inhabi-
tants of the United States, more than
$4,000, considerable number of them
in the large cities of the country.
By the census of 1880 the ratio of
Cinnamon to Japanese inhabitants of
the United States was about $50 to l
There were at that time 104, 600 CHI
nese inhabitants and only 400 Japanese.
Hostile Federal legislation to The fur
ther arrival of Chinese immigrants
practically put al end to it, aud by the
census of 1890 the Chinese population
of the United States was 106, 900, little
more than it was ten years before.
The Japanese population was 2300.
Since 1890 the effects Of the Japanese
Chinese war have made themselves
evident, and for the fiscal year ending
July l, 1898, the number of Chinese
newcomers is 2071 and of Japanese
newcomers 2230, preponderance of
japanese. In other words, there were
more Japanese new arrivals this year
than there were Japanese residents in
the whole country less than ten years
ago. A still further addition to the
country's Japanese population has
been made by the Hawaii annexation.
By the census of 1896 there were in
Hawaii "a, 407 japanese inhabitants
and 81, GIG Chinese Inhabitants. The
effect of these additions will be to
make, probably. the Chinese popula-
ton of the country in 1900 about $780,
600 and the Japanese population 65,-
900, or half as many.
There are in Hawaii, moreover, 49,
900 Portuguese inhabitants, or almost
identically the same number as were
returned for the whole United States
by the census of 1890. The present
emigration to this country from Portu-
gal, though small, is steady. 1t
amounts to 1900 persons year, 900
men and boys and 900 women and
girls. By the addition of Hawaii and
by the natural increase through immi-
grafton the Portuguese population of
the country will probably be three
times as great in 1900 as it was in 1890.
From Italy there is now an irhmi-
grafton of nearly 10000 a year, and
instead of A, 900 Italians, as were re-
turned in 1880, and 1922 900 Italian
born residents returned in 1890, there
are likely to be this year nearly 500,- i
000 In no previous census has the
number of Italian born residents of
the United States been material fac
tor 1t will become so in many parts
of the country.
By the census of 1890 there were re-
turned in the United States 4, $50, 600
foreign-born male adults, of whom
seventy per cent. were or had an
nounced their intention of becoming
naturalized, and thirty per cent. were
diiChs. vi thSS0 dit6uS,
100000, about 400, 900 could not
speak and could not understand the
English language. They spoke other
languages. and the percentages of such
aliens as could not speak English were
sixty-six per cent. in Arizona, sixty
per cent. in Texas and fifty per
cent. in New Mexico, the three polit-
ical divisions of the country in which,
chiefly, the Spanish language is spoken.
Through the annexation of additional |
territory to the United States the num-
Der of Spanish-speaking Inhabitants
of the country, to be shown by the
Federal census of 1900, will be greatly |
increased, and the proportion of non
English speaking aliens will be large
ly, though less largely, increased, too, !
in consequence of the fact that immi-
grafton into the United States from
English, speaking countries has been
very small during the past ten years.