Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-26
DITORIAL WORTH READING.
CHANGES IN IMMIGRATION.

What kind OF mlXeu fdCc ClC
merican people will be IN the
,urse of the next century it is I'M
A)ssible for any ethnOlOgist to say
r our tide Of immigration IS
hanging with nearly every year.
original population was largely
,glo- Saxon, with some mixture
German and Irish and very
ight sprinkling of French. AS
first census of 1890 shows, the
Jnited States was fl ve-sixths An
Io-Saxon, including in this the
1wland Scotch and about one
txth of other races, the Germans
'reponderating.
The foreign element greatly IN
reased as this country developed,
Dut for nearly three quarters Tor
century the English, German and
rish elements so largely predoml-
lated as to make this still dis
inctly an AnglO-SaxOn country,
With strong elements of Teutonlc
md Celtic blood.
Since then the fOOdgates of i'm
nigratiod have been opened, and
u the peoples of the world have
en- pouring over here to better
cir condition. The immigration
mas constantly changed and huc-
uuated in its racial elements. There
was an Italian invasion, then
Tebrew movement, finally the
.Sclavs began to come in by the
hundreds Of thousands. There has
IatterIv been a decided tendency
toward the Decentralization OF this
country, for a majority of the new
comers today are from the Near
or the Far East.
The countries from when our
original immigrants came cut but
little figure in the immigration OF
TODAY. There arrived for the fiscal
wear cnGing Jnne 3Oth, only 80, 3S2
Irish. a mere fraction of what came
before. and but little over per
cent of the total immigration.
The English, German and Irish
immigrants together constitute
only 1863, 26O, or 30 per cent less
than the Italians, and not nearly
alf as many as the Sclavs-they
arc scarcely seen, these Germans
and Irish, amid the hordes OF
Orientals who are pouring in.
The Italians still lead, with a
total of 223, 453 as one race, un-
less we count all the Sclavs,
coming from nine different
Sclavic branches and half dozen
countries. Much of the original
prejudice existing in some section
against these people has dlsap-
peared. AS a matter of fact, the
italian immigration has improved
largely through government IN
spection on the other side. More
over, a much greater proportion
of the Italians, Is per cent, now
come from Northern ltaly,agalnst
whom no objection has ever been
raised this is a somewhat new
movement, doubtless brought a
bout by the returned home of so
many Italians who have saved
money here and who have per-
suaded their fellow-citizens that
this is indeed "the land of dol
lar"
q The Sclavic races furnish more
immigrants than the Italian, and
one-third of the entire total; but
onlv etknologically are they unit
cd. for some of these races hate
each other more than strangers
as the Poles anb Ruthenians do,
while the Czechs dislike both.
There were altogether 341, 744
Sclavs who landed in America
last wear, Poles Czechs, Bulgar-
ians, Croats, Dalmatians, Llthua-
mans. Russians. Ruthenians and
Slovacs. Probably majority OF
the American people do not know
from what countries some of
these races like the Slovacs and
RuthenianS come.
AS we have said, there is no