The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-08-24
OUR FOREIGN Dorm
They Amount to Only Seventh
of the Whole Population.
GERMANS IN THIS COUNTRY.


More Than Eight Millions of Our Peo-
Pile Are Natives of the Fatherland or
Are Descended From Them--inter-
sstIna immigration Facts.
During the last quarter of century
there has been startling falling off In
the percentage of Germans In the total
number of immigrants who have come
TO our shores" says bulletin OF the
National Geographic society. with
more than 100000 immigrant arriv-
ais since 1890 only 1,023, 900 have been
Germans, whereas In the ia years be-
tween the establishment of the Amert-
can republic and 1890 out Of total OF
l6,6S9,000 immigrants there were ,l2o,-
600 Germans-every third arrival
Teuton
'Tf from the 1,o23, 900 who have come
30 America since 1890, the period OF
greatest influx OF foreigners, proper
deduction Is made for those who re-
turned to their home land and those
who have died since their arrival 1t
viii be seen that there are fewer than
a million former subjects of the kaiser
In this country who have not been here
more than twenty-six years. OF more
than 100000 people of German birth
and inn 1ediate ancestry among us less
than 100000 fail to have the back
ground of birth or long residence In
America behind them.
"An examination of the statistics or
American immigration shows that since
the foundation OF our government the
United Kingdom Of Great Britain and
Ireland has contributed 8, 100000 OF her
people and Germany more than 6,0OO,-
900. Ireland, with more than 100000;
Great Britain, with a little less than
1000, ,OO0 and Scandinavia, with some
thing less than 100000 have, together
with Germany, contributed more than
half of the total immigration 10 our
shores since the beginning OF the Rev
oil onary war.
y ustria Hungary stands next on the
| list Of contributors to the Immigrant
stream that has flowed from Europe to
| America. Although Austro- -Hungartans
! began to immigrate in considerable
numbers only when the arrivals from
western Europe had begun to fall on,
| sufficient have come from the dual mon
archy to populate the state OF Texas
to its present density. Italy has sent
us enough of her people TO duplicate the
population OF Montana, Wyoming, Ida
| no, Oregon, Nevada, Utah Colorado,
| Arizona and New Mexico,
'@The Russians who have come to our
shores number e,419,000 They could
replace one-half Of the population of
New England.
| although the people of foreign birth
constitute only one-seventh of the coun-
try's population they contribute nearly
one-fourth I'D per cent? OF the arm
| bearing strength of the nation. At the
last census many Of the states had q
| greater number of foreign born men OF
| arm bearing age than they had Of na-
tive ancestry citizens, among them Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Min
nesota and North Dakota.
Taking the states where those OF for
eign birth and their sons together con
stitute major portion Of the men be
tween the ages of eighteen and forty
four, 1t will be found that the list In
cludes the above named states and the
following: New Hampshire, Pennsyl
vania, Michigan, South Dakota, Ne
braska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Utah
Nevada, Washington and California
In all twenty states. We have consid
erably more than 20,0O0,000 men of mil
itary age in the United States.
Another striking fact of our immi
grafton situation is the unusual pref
erence Of the foreign born and theil
children for the cities OF the $4,000,
900 foreign stock whites living in thc
United States approximately 23,000.00(
live in the cities. In only fourteen o1
the fifty leading cities Of the country
do the whites Of full native parentag'
constitute as much as half Of the tota
population. Only one-fifth Of the tota
population Of New York and Chicago Il
OF native white ancestry. Less than {
third Of the population Of Boston, Cleve
land, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buffalo, SaI
Francisco, Milwaukee, Newark, Mime
apolis, Jersey City, Providence, ST
Paul, Worcester, Scranton, Paterson
Fall River, Lowell, Cambridge anC
Bridgeport are of native ancestry.
Conditions have played some curiouI
pranks In the distribution of the immi
grant population in the United States
More than two-thirds of the Germanl
live between the Hudson and the Mis-
sissippi and north Of the Ohio. Th,
same is true Of the Austrians, the Bel
gians, the Hungarians, the Dutch, th'
Italians, the Russians and the Welsh
New York, Pennsylvania and New Jer
sey have AZ per cent Of the Austrians
S5 per cent of the English, 30 per cen
OF the Germans, 54 per cent of the Hun
garians, As per cent Of the Irish, IS pc
cent of the Italians, SIS per cent Of tn
Russians, % per cent of the Dutch, 3.
per cent of the Scotch and 40 per cen
Of the Welsh In the United States.S