The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-25

To the most of them the Land of
Promise. The human race seems to
be composed of a large element who
are adventurous, migratory in char
acter, and self-seeking. 1t was booty
that started the immigrants of the
old World in the direction of the
New. The Aryan race of Central and
Southern Asia had the conquering in
stinct which grew into a passion.
competent writer, Mr.. T. F. Sweeney,
says, and it is in strict accord with
Ancient History:
Long before history began to be
recorded, multitudes of people went
out from Central Asia. There the
Aryan race--the most important of
the human family-had it's rise. But
the population soon outgrew the
means of subsistence. Migration be-
came a necessity. The Celts first
spread over Europe; then came the
Teutons. OF the Semitic branch of
the Aryan race the Jews particularly
wandered far and wide. First, to
Egypt they went; then, through the
wilderness to Canaan; subsequently,
in the various captivities to Babylon.
The Aryans. whence most citizens OF
the United States come, are the great
DUNG, civilizing, nation building peo-
pie. No other race has ever been able
TO stand before them The japanese
could do So now with their progress
and great fighting power, perhaps.
The early immigrants, for the most
part were inclined to the Christian re-
ligion and practiced more or less
the principles and precepts. but had in
them the conquering spirit. Religious
anld h1If in
New England and elsewhere the spirit
of persecution for opinions sake pre-
vailed to some extent at times, and OPP
pressions we're sometimes visited upon
certain sects in the South and in the
North.
Before our war for independence
the population i'm the New York
Colony was made up of many races,
differing widely in blood, religion,
and conditions of life" With that
State as to population it seems that
variety is the spice of life" 1t is
now published that the greatest city,
New York, had but &c per cent of
native born population in 1904
The immigration during the last
century was not only very large, but
very varied. In the city of Butte, in
Montana, there are 50 different ma
tionalities represented now. The inn
were desirable, and from England,
Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Norway,
Sweden and France. But since 1881,
dhe tide of immigration has turned,
and now the immigrants are from
many other countries. Italy, Austria,
Hungary, Russia, Spain, Finland, 20
land, China Greece and other lands,
arc represented. 1t is stated as a fact
that i'm 1882, when the population was
IN foreign
ton was very nearly 25,00O,O0O, or
half The old favored countries arc
not sending so many of their worthy,
desirable people to this country, but
the people who do flock here are more
and more from the Mediterranean,
Oriental and Slavcnic races.
THE Carpathian and Baltic Noun
tains are nearer the mining districts
of Pennsylvania today than Boston
was so years ago.
| learn farther that the countries IN
dicated encourage emigration, and are
benefited thereby. But what about
this country. that receives the great
crowds-is it benefited, too?
Last year 196.20S Italian came, and
ostly composed of "unskilled labor.
] cite an authority:
II he Italians come here to work
and they do work, and their poten-
TALLY for Improvement and progress
is remarkable, and while they are
birds of passage this tendency is
lesyening year by year. The objection
to this race is in its adherence TO
the idea that they are colonists of
the mother land, and while here, sub
ieCt to her authority. The La Colona
idea makes the assimilation of the
Italian much more difficult
There were 106.236 Jews among the
immigrants of 1904, and they were
mainly from Russia, Austria and Ro-
mania The Poles who came amount
ed to $1,000, mainly from Russia and
Galicea.
1--WE arc now receiving every year
close upon 10000 Slovaks, from the
mountainous regions of northern Hun
gary-a Slavish people, speaking
tongue akin to the Bohemian, living III
their own lands in mud huts without
chimneys They too, are extremely
illiterate. and turbulent under leader
ship"
Hungary sent $4,000.
The Croatians and Slayonians,
from the south of Austria, have only
commenced tos come to this country
in the last fifteen years, and have al
ready colonies in southern California
and Oregon. with large numbers in
the Pennsylvania mines"
The Firms are coming over. They
can ell read and write. The Syrians
come b. the 5000 each year. They
are all through the West. My au-
thcrity SAYS of them that "in charac-
ter they have changed little since they
were described in the Old Testament.
They have all the vices of the Oriental
races. but without many of the vir
tues. They are the toughest problem
that official and private charity has
to meet in the communities in which
they live
The Chinese are said to possess the
greatest climatic ,adaptability of all
the nations. Wherever they go they
succeed whether it is cold or hot.
They are Interchangeable. No associa-
tons or influences ever make them
aught but Chinese.
mo foreign influence has ever gone
into China that has made the slight
est imDression-~on the Chinese race,
and while they have been the migrant
race of the world, they always re-
main Chinese.
In California, where they are more
numerous than elsewhere in our coun-
try, it is reported that 10 per cent. of
them are criminals. The great influx
of foreigners into this country has not
really affected the price of labor