Evening star., 1914-11-15
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for a quarter of a century Then 1t
dropped for almost decade. to be re-
sumed about ten years ago.
An inquiry as to the actual Immigra-
tion as shown both by the Brazilian
and the German official statistics, fails
to reveal the supposed million Germans
and descendants of Germans IN brazii.
It will astonish the Monroe doctrine
and other alarmists to learn that IN the
period of almost century the total
emigration from Germany to Braz--
has not reached 125,000.
The Almanack de Gotha, which is
the total from 1920 to 1912, inclusive.
as $4,000. The Germans who have
gone to South America are as prolific
as those who remain at home, out In
the midst of their foreign environment
they have not multiplied like rabbits.
1t Is significant that fully one-half the
immigration has been since the Franco
prussian war, and this immigration. as
everybody who has been in Brazil knows,
has spread generally over the country,
and has not been directed to the col
onies founded in the decade between
1850 and 1860.
In the period from 1871 to 1894, ac-
cording to the German statistics. the oen emf nj
grafton to Brazil amounted to $4,000 in
diyiduals, and to other parts of South
America, 81 900.
These figures were given by the late
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, when he
far as 1 am aware have never been
contradicted. In recent years part of
the German emigration has been to the
state of San Paulo, which has had col
onization policy OF Its own A German
San Paulo. The thinly settled neighbor-
ing state of Parana also has received
some German emigrants.
Despite the fact that during the last
third of century the German emigra-
ton has been spread over all parts Of
Brazil. it is apparent that If those mil
lion Germans and descendants of Ger
mans are to be found the bulk of them
must be in the states where the original
colonies were located and where so much
is heard about the prevalence of the Ger
man Language and German customs. in
Guiding church going and school-going.
A basis for estimate has to be found
in the existing total population.
Brazil has no reliable population sta
tistics. National susceptibilities have to
be considered in making guesses about
the population, but the tendency to ex-
aggerate the number of Inhabitants is
not especially a Brazilian trait. 1t is
merely trait Of human nature, yet
allowance must be made for it.
According to the latest official esti-
mates, the population Of the state of
Rio Grande do Sui is 100000. and of
the state of Santa Catharina $4,000.
This would make a total of million
and three-quarters. A reasonable esti-
mate would be a million and a half.
Among these million and half
people must be found the bulk of the
million supposed Germans. The sim
pie truth is that the most of the in
creased population Of southern Brazil
has come from the Brazilians them
selves and from other nationalities
than the Germans.
The Portuguese. as a rule, settle
around Rio de Janeiro. and further
north. yet some of them have moved
southward to Rio Grande do Sui.
The great italian immigration wave.
however, is the dominating influence.
and it has already overfowed from San
Paulo to the south. The Spaniards also
supplement the Italian immigration to
southern Brazil, while some of the nom