The Irish standard., 1899-09-30

| 'ertlole statement stands, and indicates
very clearly the volume, relatively, OF
Irish and other nationaltics, and the
same ratio obtained until the outbreak
OF our independence war.
Nor was it alone 10 Pennsylvania that
these prosecuted found their way New
Hampshire and Maine, aye, even the
Old Bay State, felt their influence. "E.
f. c. must not forget the Irish settlers
in the valley Of the Mcrrimac. In 1910
one hundred Irish families settled in and
founded the town OF Dcrryfield, N. H.;
but the significance OF name is lost,
Tor that little town for more than hun
dred years has borne the name OF Man
chester. II was also at this period that
the father OF the Sullivans, the first OF
the Irish schoolmastcrs, came from Linz
erick and settled in New Hampshire.
The father OF New York's Clintons,
Charles Clinton, coming from county
L-ongford in 1929, was the first settler
to break ground in Orange county, N.
y, by planting there three hundred
Irish families. Nor must we be un-
mindful of the pioneer work OF that ex-
traordinary intellect, the politician SOL
dier, Sir William Johnson, distasteful
though his memory be to all true Amer
leans, who came hi,l,er with follow
ing from county Meath, and who for
more than half a century dominated the
| affairs Of New York, until the repub-
lican and Irish Clintons overthrew his
royalist influence.
Before making his wild assertions, "E.
L. C." should study the history OF the
Carolinas and Virgirias; he should not
forget the Irish OF the "Wasllaw settle
ments" nor brave men who settled on
the banks Of the Santce. These were
the men whose declaration OF rights"
ten years later furnished the ground
work for Jefferson's splendid produc-
tion. If there was almost none" Of
Irish immigration, during the colonial
period, why is it that the names OF the
men on the muster roll OF the Middesex
(Mass.) minute men who fought at
Bunker Hill indicate more than IS per
cent Irish by birth or parentage. Muir
ply was the name OF one of the six
Americans shot in State street, Boston,
in 1870, and that John Adams, in de-
tending the British officer at the subsc-
quent trial, set up the defense that the
Boston Liberty Boys we're nearly all
Leagues term applied to Irish
Catholics at that time.
In 1873 congress passed an act direct
ing customs officers at the different
ports OF entry to collect all data as to
the number, Sex, birthplace, occupation,
etc, OF all immigrants. This law went
into effect on Sept. 80, 1910. 1t has
been in force ever since. The returns
of the United States census arc based
on the data SO collected
From 1910 to 1870 the record shows
that 2o7,I64 Irish landed in the United
States (tlc period during which, accord
ing to "E. Z. c." there was scarcely
anyO. Bromwcll (listory of Immigra-
tion), whose authority | am sure "E. L.
c. will not question. says that there
came from ireland 10 the United States,
between Sept. 80, 1870, and Sept. 80,
1855, 1,747,03o persons. The above fig
urcs do not indicate that they had be-
gun to come at a comparatively late day
Between 1870 and 1890 we received
3,441,o74 Irish immigrants (Part ILL.,,
Statistical Atlas, United States Census,
1900. 1t is true, as "E. E. c." says,
that there were in 1890 but 1871 500
lrisll-born persons here, but he is abso-
lutcly i'll error, and l challenge his
proof, when he says in the face OF the
Statistical Atlas" there were only g.
164,3o7 born OF Irish parents. As a
matter OF fact, according to the author
ity above named, there were, in 1900.
4,013253 persons born OF Irish parents
And these figures do not include cases
where only one OF the parents was
born in Ireland.
Occupation is an index OF social con-
dition. AS to the Irish-born residents
OF the United States, the census reports
yield these significant facts:
Census Census Census
of 1870 of 1880. of 1890.
Irish, born iaborers. 229'oo0 225,ooo 100000
Or the population OF this country
pursuing gainful occupations, "a per
cent are farmers Or the German born
population, 20 per cent arc farmers. or
the 1rish-born population, 6 per cent
arc farmers.
The figures above given indicate that
ii our Irislborn population is still
chary toward its better destiny on the
farms OF the country, it is, nevertheless,
also emerging from the status OF la
boring population
The total number of Irish-born per-
sons pursuing gainful occupations was
in 1880 10000, and in 1890, 1,o65,ooo
In 1880, 22 per cent OF the Irish-born
population we're laborcrs In 1900 the
percentage of Irish-Eorn laborcrs was
10 per cent.
While the number of unskillcd Irish
born laborcrs shows some decrease,
there is some gain in lrsh-born skilled