Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-09
OUR NEED OF IMMIGRATION.

A contributor to the Boston Herald,
DR.. Kuczynski. in paper that evlnces
careful study calls attention TO the
fact that the material decrease Of Inn
migration to this country might have
serious consequences He says the
question of restriction is not merely
question Of higher or lower wages; Il
Is not merely a question Of larger or
smaller proportion Of criminals among
the population. The exclusion Of a large
part OF the immigrants might cost the
United states its position among the
worlds powers
This Is the conclusion he arrives at,
after a careful comparison of the sta
tistlcs relating to birth and mortality
among the people Of native and for
cign stock He finds, for instance, that
the birthrate among the foreign born
population OF Massachusetts, Is as high
az in any foreign country where stat
istlcs are available, and yet the total
blrthrate Of that state falls below that
Of Hungary Austria, Germany the
Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Nor
way, Scotland, Belgium, England and
Wales or Sweden 1t is but a trIhe
higher than that OF France That
means that but for the fecundity Of
the foreign born residents the birth
rate OF that state would be much less
than that OF France, which Is said TO be
the lowest in Europe.
SO much for one state. But the
doctor further claims that this condi-
tlon Is very much the same all over the
country. With the immigrants ex-
Guided. he thinks, the native Americans
would possibly hold their own, but that
would be due chiefly to the negro race.
The low birthrate in New England, he
claims, IS due to the fact that the popu-
latlon IS mostly white. The favorable
figures in other sections are largely due
20 the colored population, The neg
roes, he says, who represent popula-
ton grown out Of itself, and influenced
In It's numerical development only by
lts own fecundity and mortality, have
experienced from 1890 to 1900 an in
crease Of 1871 per cent. They have ex-
actly doubled since the outbreak Of the
civil war In case the white popula-
ton Of the United States viii have to
rely for lts increase on It's own fe-
cundlty. and II it's fecundity and NOR
tallty remain the same, the proportion
Of the negroes will steadily increase.
His conclusions as to Rhode Island
and Massachusetts are these;
with their present fecundity and
mortality the natives OF Massachus-
ctts ana Rhode Island would have suf-
fered "a considerable decrease In the
last decade " they had not been the
offspring both Of native stock growing
out OF Itself and OF a foreign popula-
ton coming az adults 10 the United
States. The fecundity and
mortality Of the natives ~ Massachu-
sets all Rhode Island are such that.
left TO themselves they would not only
not afford any increase at an. but would
even be far from holding their own"
when these facts are considered, II
viii be evident that the conclusion Of
the writer ia but too well founded. The
exclusion Of a large part OF the lmml-
grants might cost the country IT'S posi-
ton among the great powers The
slow increase Of the French population
has cost that republic more loss OF
prestige than ala the defeat In the war
with Germany.