Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-10-19
SEX. In IMMIGRATION
More Men Than Women Come to
This Country.
. ONE Interesting Facts and FigureR
About the Arrivals from Diff
Eerent Lnnds--The Tide
increasing.

From 1919, the year OF the passage
by congress of the law for the registra-
ton of immigrants arriving in the
United States, until the present time,
there have been 1S,500,000 immigrants
registered in the various ports of the
country, and of these, taking the aver
age through the whole course of years,
60 per cent. were men and 40 per cent.
women, disparity representing total
difference of nearly 100000.
1t has been frequently pointed out
as a matter of interest and Importance
that the proportion of male immigrants
is higher where such immigration is
least desirable, particularly in the
case of Chinese and Sicilians, while it.
is lowest among the Germans and Irish.
The reasons assigned for this disparity
have been many. Among them have
been the perils and inconvenience o!
a residence on the frontier before the
complete settlement of the country, emf
grafton from continental countries to
escape CONSUMPTION in European arm
les, the danger and discomforts of ocean
travel before the establishment OF fast
and commodious steamers, and the nat
ural reluctance of women to seek homes
in new lands. 1t has popularity been
supposed, however, that as these reasons
for the excess of male immigration
either disappeared or were diminished,
the totals of the two sexes would be
more nearly even, conclusion which
the tables just published by the immi-
grafton bureau in Washington for the
year ending March /, 1899, completely
overthrow.
During the year the actual number of
immigrants coming into the United
States was 10000, an increase of $4,000
compared with year ago. According
to the ordinary division between male
and female immigrants there should
have been 10000 of the former and 1884,
900 of the latter. Instead of this there
were 1927 male immigrants, or more
than 60 per cent, and III, 43S female i'm
migrants, less than 40 per cent. From
England there were 6,7o0 male and 1000
female immigrants, about the average
ratio; from Germany, 14,7OO male and
II, 500 female immigrants, less than the
average number; from Scandinavia
there were IL, TAI male and 1O,502 female
immigrants, and from Finland, coun-
try from which there has been recently
extensive emigration to the United
States in consequence of the serious con-
fict between the Russian government
and the Films, 1900 male and 2,100 fe-
male immigrants came. From two
countries female immigration to the
United States prepo1derates, Ireland
and Bohemia. There were last year 49,
700 male and 1860 female immigrants
from ireland, and from Bohemia the
number of male and female immigrants
was almost identical, 1852 of the for
mer and 1864 of the latter.
The long-disputed question among
immigrant officials as to the designa-
ton to be given to Polish Hebrew immi-
grants, whether they should be de-
scribed as Polish or under the head OF
German, Russian or Austrian immi-
grants, as the case might be, has been
settled by the adoption of q generic
term for all such immigrants, the word
Hebrew. There were $1,000 male and
10000 female Hebrew immigrants last
year. From Russian Poland there were
in addition $4,000 male and 10000 fe-
male immigrants, while from Italy,
now the chief contributing country to
the flow of immigration into the United
States, there were $4,000 male and 49,
900 female immigrants. Italian immi-
grafton is very largely responsible for
the disparity of the sexes in the matter
of immigration. Twice as many male
Syrians as female Syrians came over
last year and five times as many male
Slavonians. There were 1900 male
Greeks and only 1872 female, but the rec
ord of all other countries is distanced
by China, 1927 male immigrants and II
female immigrants only.
Cuban immigration to the United
States last year was l. 400, including LOO
male and 300 female immigrants. From
Hawaii there were more women than
male immigrants, though the number
of either was not large, and from Japan
there came 9,175 male immigrants and
275 female.-N. Y. Sun.