Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-07
FOREIGN BORN
 IN THE STATES
Germans Lead All Other Nations with Total 2,499, 200 Last
 Census Shows
IRISH ON DECREASE

WASHINGTON, April G.-There are
 more native born Germans in the
 n!ted States than any other nation aiity' except persons born in this country. According to the census of ISlu there are in Che United States
 Z,49S,2oO Germans of foreign birth
 The Germans lead all other nations
 ln their number in this country. From 1921 to 1870 natives of Car.
 many, Great Britain, Ireland. Scsndi-
 nayla. and Canada together contri-
 uuted substantially nine-tenths of all
 the immigrants to this country bur
 since 1870 their proportion of the to-
 tai number has steadily declined rom somewhat more than four-ffths
 IoI ISsl-lSS0 to three-fourths for
 IooI-lesV, about two-fifths for 1891
 iSVu' and only little more than one
 fifth for 190l-l91O.
 Immigrants from Austria Hungary. Italy and Russia, on the other hand, constituted less than l per cent of all the immigrants from 1S2l-1S7O. bur thereafter their proportion has stead fly increased-from about one-six teenth for 1S71-1SS0 10 one-sixth for lSSl-lSS0, one half of 1S9l-19O0. and Very nearly twO-thirds for lgOf-lqIO
 AS a result of these changes in the sources Of immigration 10 this conn try and because of the very large number of immigrants during the dee ade 1901-I9l0, the relative distribu- lion of the foreign-born white popula- ucn at the last two federal censuses. and the increase CT decrease of its. elements since 1gGO. is a matter of considerable interest and importance.
 In 1910 out of an approximate to- tai for continental United States of l5,342,500 foreign-born whites. tho persons born in Germany numbered 7 l,i99,2O0 and constituted 1S.1 per cent. | as compared with 2.Sl3A13 in 1900 CT 275 per cent of the total at that | census. This is a loss in the number | oi natives of Germany during the dec lde Of 314,213 or f1.2 per cent.
 A similar condition is also appar- 5nt with respect 10 natives of Ire | and At the census of 1910 there were | reported 1851 AGO persons born in Ireland constituting 101 DOT cent of | he entire fureign-born white popuIa- ion, as compared with 1,615.232 per sons so born, 15.S per cent of the otal, at the preceding census. loss rom 1900 to 1910 of Z65.S32. or 1f.3 Ter cent
 During the decade l900-tgl0 there 1 .2~ an increlse in tho number of iatives Of Great Britian from l.166,S63 | O l.22l,+Qo, or 4.I per cent, although 1 or natives Of Wales alone there was
 decrease of very nearly llO00: an increase in the number ot natives of 'anada and Newfoundland from 1,172.- 45 to 1,leS.G00, or 2.2 per cent: and m increase in the number of natives ,f Norway. Sweden, and Denmark lom l.062.124 to 1,250,jOO or IT. per ent. Natives of each of these groups f countries, as well as of Germany l nd Ireland, constituted a consider bly less proportion )f total foreign | orn white population in 1910 than in goo Natives of all of these countries | aken together were 564 per cent Cf he total in 1910 as against 76.6 per ent in 1900.
 Against the decline in the propor- ion for these countries stand large aims shown for natives in Austri- hungary, Italy and Russia and Fin md, for each of which the proportion | 1910 is more than double that hown for the preceding census.
 in 1900 there were in continental 'nited States 636. .96S natives of Aus constituting 62 per cent , the total foreign born whites, but I . 1910 their number was 1,6jS, zoo | , r l2.4 per cent Of the total
 Similarly, of natives Of Italy there ere 4S3,963, CT i.3 per cent, in 1900 nd I,341, 800, or 101 per cent in 1910: : nd of natives of Russia and Finland i0.710. or 6.3 per cenr in 1900 and 706, 900 or 12.S per cent in 1910. There has been an increase during C le decade of over 100 per cent in [ le number of natives of Mexico in I lis country-from fO1 ,90S in 1900 to f $500 in 19l0-but they are largely ' to the border states of Texas, ! l alifornia and New Mexico.