The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01


duties. His office is really the trust publicity
lation, were generally found to be settled
with American stock ITO put it shortly
says Mr.. Weston, "275 years after the land
ing of the Pilgrim fathers the stronghold
of Puritanism is held, not by the override
Ginning American, but by the Irish, German
and French Canadian" In a Western State,
Illinois, out of nearly 5,O00.O0O. 100000 are
foreign born, and another million and
half arc of foreign parentage. 1.-The native
element is stronger in the South, but it Is
not due to the productiveness of the Ameri-
can, but to the productiveness of the ne
gro" Whatever the shortcomings of the
alien may be in America. he is superior to
the American in being 1.-The father of many
children''-which President Roosevelt holds
TO be one sign OF good citizenship. Mr..
Weston goes on to say that 1.-The compare
tive sterility Of the genuine American is not
the, only weakness revealed by a close
study of statistics" Americans too
fond of comparing their total of 100000
with the 100000 Of the British isles. Yet
England, as great power, ought to be
regarded not as Kingdom, but as an en-
pire whose native subjects are not counted,
but whose white population, including the
colonies. amounts to 54,OO00OO. To get at
the white population of the United States
we must deduct not only nearly 100000
negroes, but 100000 Chinese, japanese, In
dams and Kanakas. Thus the real differ
ence between the American population and
the British population is not, as American
writer's, including Mr.. Carnegie, will have
1t, 35 100000, but "a mere matter OF 13,OOOOOO.
Mr.. Weston thinks that not more than one
half of the population of the United states
is American in the true sense of the term.
THE United States will no doubt play that
part in the world Of which she dreams, but
she must first cease to draw on European
vital strength. only homogeneous peoples
ever become great"
Another interesting point. upon which
oh hot 10 taE
acter of American immigration. This ex-
plains the recent interest OF the American
government, economic and not humanitar-
ian. IN the Jews of Roumania- In a word,
the immigration to America used to be
chiefly from the Teutonic north OF. Europe;
now it is, though reduced in volume, chiefly
cades there were 100000 immigrants, OF
whom 100000 were from the United King
dom and Canada, 100000 from Germany
and ], 900 from Scandinavia Now the pro-
portions, shown by careful tables. are
all the other way. Thoughtful Americans
perceive with anxiety that the old world
long as the new blood poured into the
United States was largely of Teutonic
origin, she could look into the future with
out misgiving, but now that it is mixture
from southern and eastern Europe il is
another matter" Specially marked Is the
| increased immigration from degenerated
sassins of the world. Now. even in their
widest dreams OF megaomania, the Ameri-
| cans have wished to preserve their racial
affinity with the mother country. How
| is this to be done with sterile natives, pro-
| life foreigners, and an ever-increasing VOL
ume of Jewish, Slav. Italian and Austro-
Hungarian immigration; with correspond
| ing decrease in the volume of emigrating
| Saxons, Celts and Teutons?"
SEES OUR FINISH.
| The above considerations have long given
| American writer's cause for anxiety. and
| for exhortation of their countrymen. They
| have now become matter Of worldwide no.
| torfety They may well give some COM
| fort at the time that we are condemned to
| hear so much about the Americanization of
| the world, and about Mr.. Pierpont Morgan
| putting England in his pocket. Twenty
| years ago Matthew Arnold used to note the
| angry surprise still subsisting at the scanty
| kindness which America had received from
| her sister nations in the hour of her trial
| in the civil war. His logical, if chilling,
answer was that the previous behavior or
| America to other nations had never been
| such as to deserve any special kindness in
| the hour of trial. We are not aware that
| the American attitude towards the world
| has been markedly more genial or modest
| since the civil war. The fact that America
/ is keeping quiet during our present action
| against Venezuela only leaves more utterly
| without excuse the conduct of President
Cleveland seven years ago. So. If the
| dreams of American megloma mia miScarry,
/ there Will De no eNdSSeTdteu
| abroad. On this subject a Canadian series
/ of cartoons has lately had much success.
| IL represents Uncle Sam as respectable
l elderly body who wanders into an opium
/ den and has mighty dream. He dreams
| that he is the greatest nation in the world.
/ In one scene John Bull comes crawling TO
| him on the ground, humbly begging for
| permission to exist. La another scene
/ Uncle Sam is so tickled that he has to
throw bouquets at himself. His ships. his
/ factories, his universities are the best In
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/ start he cannot understand why he has
/ been the cause OF so much amusement
/ among the nations. OF course, no sensible
/ Americans will take offense at mere joke
/ But a sober economist like Mr.. Weston al
/ most indorses the cartoonist when he
/ writes of the United States: Even were
/ all her 100000 white which they are very
far from being, she could no more play
/ the world part that the United Kingdom
/ has played for a century than France could.
/ She has not the staying power.
| There is. therefore, special reason for
| America TO regard with anxiety the emigra-
ton into Canada, which has begun within
a very few years. Hitnerto tnere mas pee =,
| no emigration from America. save that oil
her oyercultured classes. who could not
| stand her conditions of life She has taken
/ much from the world, and given II little.
| .sThe vital force she receives from Europe
| is not so much an addition to her strength
| as absolutely essential TO her existence a.
| a great power" Even poor little Canada
for half a century, had to contribute at a
| ruinous rate to the filling I'D of America
| But Canada has been saved by her faith
in the future, and in England. The tide
i has now turned. Since 1890 Canada has
| so greatly prospered that emigration to the
States has practically ceased. For some
years there has been an increasing influx
| OF American farmers into the pleasant
| open spaces of the Canadian Northwest
In 1900 there were 1900 such immigrants &c
Canada; in 1901. there were 1900: and by
the autumn of 1892. there were $4,000. Here
| are the grain fields OF the future. as also
the quickest route to the European mar
kets Mr.. Weston concludes What the
United States was 10 the nineteenth cen