The Progress., 1898-11-19
THE CENSUS OF 1900.
THE MOST REMARKABLE YET TAKEN
BY THE UNITED STATES.

1900
meration Of tho Inhabitants, Their In
terests and Industries, and tho Ceun.
try's Products-Census in Hawaii.
Tho ne1t census, to be taken in 1900.
though limited in its scope to an emu
merstion 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 IN 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
1890 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 addl-
ton to the non-English speaking pop
ulstion, and q complete REIMBURSEMENT
of the foreign-born population, due
partly to anne1tion, partly to lmml'
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 l839,an increase
of fifty per cent. in ten years. Since
1890, however, there has been 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 l, 1898, to have been
1915. During the preceding year,
ending July l, 1897, the Turkish i'm
migration was 4732, and there are
now, instead OF 1900 Turkish inhabi-
tants of the United States, more than
, IS, 900, a considerable number of them
, in the large cities OF the country.
: By the census of 1880 the ratio OF
f Cinnamon to japanese inhabitants of
the United States was about $50 to l.
| There were at that time 104, 900 Chi
) nese inhabitants and only 400 Japanese.
9 Hostile Federal legislation to the fur
q Their arrival of Chinese immigrants
, practically put an end to it, and by the
, census of 1890 the Chinese population
/ of the United States was LOG, 900, little
q more than it was ten years before.
2 The Japanese population was 1900.
! Since 1890 the effects of the Japanese
Chinese war have made themselves
, evident, and for the fiscal year ending
+ July /, 1898, the number OF Chinese
9 newcomers is 207l and of Japanese
r newcomers 223O, preponderance Of
: Japanese. In other words, there were
more Japanese new arrivals this yeal
than there were Japanese residents il
the whole country less than ten years
ago. A still further addition to the
'. country's Japanese population ha'
- been made by the Hawaii annexation
h By the census of 1896 there were il
Hawaii "a, 407 Japanese inhabitants
4 and q, GIG Chinese inhabitants. Th'
\. effect of these additions will be t.
n make, probably. the Chinese popula
! ton of the country in 1906 about 100,
d 900 and the Japanese population IS,
, 900, or half as many.
70 There are in Hawaii, moreover, Is,
IL 900 Portuguese inhabitants, or almos
~ identically the same number as wer
=, !, returned for the whole United State
- by the census of 1890. The presen
- emigration to this country from Portu
~ gal, though small, is steady. ]
- amounts to 1900 persons a year, 80
a. o. men and boys and 900 women an
10 10 girls. By the addition of Hawaii an
q, BY the natural increase through immi
~ grafton the Portuguese population {
a. a. tho country will probably be thre
~ times as great in 1900 as it was in 1896
40 From Italy there is now an imm
NJ grafton of nearly $4,000 year, an
instead of A, 900 Italians, IS were r.
ho turned in 1880, and $4,000 Italian
10 born residents returned in 1890. ther
I'D are likely to be this year nearly 500
~. 900. In no previous census has tt
=; number of Italisn-born residents
-. the United States been material ia
~, tor. It will become so in many par
"a Of the country.
a. By tho census of 1890 there were r
o. %, turned in the United States 4, 1850, OF
~, -. foreign-born male adults, of who
,nt seventy ger cent. were or had q
~. nouncsi their intention of becomir
W. W. naturalyzed, and thirty per cent. We
'ns aliens. OF these aliens, numberil
Nv 1900, 900, about 100000 could n
'us speak and could not understand Il
~ English language. They spoke 9th
languages, and tho percentages OF sui