The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-07-31
OUR FOREIGN BORN
They Amount to Only a Seventh
Of the Whole Population.
GERMANS IN THIS COUNTRY.

More Than Eight Millions Of Our Peo-
PIE Are Natives Of the Fatherland or
Are Descended From fhem-lnter-
estlns immigration Facts.
During the last quarter Of century
there has been a startling falling OF In
the percentage of Germans In the total
number Of immigrants who have come
% our Shores" says bulletin Of the
National Geographic society. with
more Than 100000 immigrant arriv-
ais since 1890 only 1,O2SOO0 have been
Germans, whereas in the Ala years be-
tween the establishment Of the Ameri-
can republic and 1900 out Of total Of
1896, 900 immigrants there were 8, 1885,
900 Germans every third arrival a
Teuton
If from the !, O29,OOO who have come
to America since 1890, the period Of
greatest influx of foreigners, a proper
deduction is made for those who re-
turned to their home land and those
who have died since their arrival it
Will 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 immediate ancestry among US less
than 100000 fail to have the back
ground Of birth or long residence In
America behind them.
IAN examination Of the statistics Of
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 0,O00,-
600. Ireland, with more than 100000;
Great Britain, with a little less than
100000, and Scandinavia, with some
thing less than 100000, have, together
with Germany, contributed more than
half of the total immigration to our
shores since the beginning Of the Rev
dictionary war.
Austria Hungary stands next on the
list Of contributors to the immigrant
stream that has flowed from Europe to
America. Although Austro-H ungar1ans
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.
1.-THE Russians who have come to our
shores number 8,419,OO0. 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 (22 per cent? Of the arm
bearing strength Of the nation. At the
last census many of the states had a
greater number OF foreign born men OF
arm bearing age than they had OF ma
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 q major portion Of tho men be-
tween the ages OF eighteen and forty
four, it will be found that the list fn-
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,OO0,000 men Of NIL
itary age in the United States.
"Another striking fact Of our immi-
grafton situation is the unusual pref
erence Of the foreign born and their
children for the cities. OF the $4,000
900 foreign stock whites living In the
United States approximately 23,OOO.OOO
live In the cities. In only fourteen OF
the fifty leading cities Of the country
do the whites Of full native parentage
constitute as much as half Of the total
populatton. Only one-ffth Of the total
Of native white ancestry. Less than a
third of the population Of Boston, Cleve-
land, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buffalo,. San
Francisco, Milwaukee, Newark, Mime
apolis, Jersey City, Providence, st.
Paul, Worcester, Scranton, Paterson,
Fall River, Lowell, Cambridge and
Bridgeport are of native ancestry.
Conditions have played some curious
pranks In the distribution Of the immi-
grant population In the United States.
More than two-thirds Of the Germans
live between the Hudson and the Mis-
sissippl and north Of the Ohio. The
same is true OF the Austrians, the Bel
gians, the Hungarians, the Dutch, The
Italians, the Russians and the Welsh.
New York, Pennsylvania and New Jer-
say have AZ per cent Of the AustrianA
i 90 Der cent of the English. 30 Per cent