The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-15
Tho Irish Vote In Nav York.

10 THE EDITOR OF The BUE-Str: Your
correspondent. E @, O.. Brooklyn. on The
Irish-Born Population In New York City"
places Now York as 1897 and Brooklyn
So759." The Census OF 1890. Tables 3. 4.
Statistics OF Population. Part I.-Popuation.
| up. 070-071." states In New York city there
are 19O41S and in Brooklyn So.722. Evil
IDENTITY e. c. G. did not get the correct figures.
as he has 355 too many
The Irish element In New York city must
have lost moro by death in tho last ten years
than It has gained by inning ration" Ia thus
disproved.
Between the years 1870 to 1890 tho Irish
element In New York city increased very mate
rally. or the 4l9.O04 foreign born in Now
York city out OF total population o: 042. 294
in 1870. there were POI. 800 Irish born. thus
being the largest foreign born element. as the
Germans numbered 15l.2lb Tho census OF
1870. Part 1.-Population. r. clxix.. Foreign
Parentage." places the Irish element in New
York as 409.a24 1878 per cent?: Brooklyn.
202.0o5 1885 per cent?. thus making Il grand
total OF 81 $3.50 persons In New York city and
Brooklyn Of Irish extraction.
That immigration from Ireland has greatly
fallen off," is true 30 has immigration from
every European country. The Annual Re-
port OF the Commissioner General OF Immgra-
tion." 1893. page %. states that, according to
Table No. l. there was Q falling of in the
total immigration" Table No. gives follow
ing figures OF immigrants for the period OF
ls96-lS9S: Number o: immigrants from Ire
period. 3S.644 decrease from Ireland over
corresponding period. 3.2y3; decrease from
Germany during same period 5,i2G.
OF tho many deliberate attempts made to
bolittle tho Irish element in this country
none deserve greater condemnation than tho
enumerators in 1890:
, II born in Canada or. Newfoundland. write
ticular pace OF BIRTH SO az to Distinguish be-
tNweea per9ons born in any part of British
respectively. this is a most ,inrortant re-
lulTemont and must be. closely observed in
each case and the distinction carefully made"
Why was this order AN important require
seas to lnereass the "AnEIo- saTon" coniinsent
in Ireland !, a. .EqEiish% as i %as 70 giss%
column? II Irish Canadians were English"
why the Fregeh rE Gansdnns not put d9Ma
How one could find out that the full
strength OF the ceIebr9ted Irish vote in New
admitted that the Irish vote defeated Mr. Dav-
EXPORT. and surely it must have been consId-
Very earnestly those IA 52G even to the deci.
maN to support i'm at the polls.
, Irish Immigration PREVIOUS to 1910 has not
been greatly. ..'"xaggern;cd." but has been
erants m the saiT, SSSG S Gna sa t,
1852, Washington, d. c." tells us that from
1920 to 1850" .O42. 900 immigrants from Ire
land arrived in the United States. while But
period
The. same authority page IL informs us
that in the early history OF tho immigration
movement. while nearly all the countries Of
Europe were represented to some extent
during tho forty years from 1921 to 1860 in
elusive. over hall OF the entire immigration to
this country was from ireland aud England,
and the greater portion from Ireland"
The greatest statstican Michael G. Mulhall,
states that 3;t34.00o immigrants from Ireland
went to the United States from 1921 to 1895
commenting on this number he says: MANY
Irish were classified as British. The total ia
4.i4OOOO Irish immigrants to the United
That there was very little immigration from
Ireland previous to anu during Colon ial times"
is best told by the following trustworthy
sources:
Maryland had q special attraction for tho
Irish attcrtG insurrsctIon OF iGi1. ""Boan an.
historian Of Maryland.
"lb4l The Plague. famine. scafTold and
Catholic population was still in tho majority.
Other expedients were now adopted / 900
young girls were transported to jamaica
ner lOq,ooO Persons yer" transnortei IRON
Hi.t"ry Eng. Goy't. p. 81 "sS"""''S criminal
thG ,ir Ri f2rtnfht q August 1873
from ireland Vesssls T Wors sn nrIiSin,
every Try, mGn'h treIghted with emiErants
History United States Vol. i. p. BOZ "''''
Much OF what has been written OF American
history, 10 quote The words of the historian OF
written by those who. from habit or prcjudico'
have been inclined to magnify the influence
and extol the merit OF the "Angl Saxon" race
atth' expense of every Other F.r sSmo Rtnn
BROOKLYN. Sept. 10. '"'