The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-18

than 100000 still live among us,
dren are now in good truth bone of
our bone, and blood of our blood"
The number of citizens of foreign
birth now in the United States is CIV
en- as approximately 14,500,000; there
are 100000 children both of whose
parents are foreign born, and 100000
others, one of whose parents was born
under foreign flag. Deduct all these
people together with the 100000
negro citizens of the country, Indians
and Chinese, and there remains in the
United States, the Geographic Maya
zine points out, 100000 Americans
of full white native ancestry.
'Yet," the Magazine adds, "the 35,-
100000 American people who are of
foreign stock-that is, foreign born or
the children of foreign-born parent
include some of the most industri-
Gus citizens. of our republic. Even
the President himself has only one an
cestor who was born in America, and
the list is long and notable of states
men, captains of industry, leaders of
| finance, inventors, makers of litera-
| ture and progress, who have strains
of blood not more than one generation
on this side of the sea.
can examination of the statistics of
American immigration shows that
since the foundation of their govern
Init Kin0AnYro Of
Britain and Ireland has contributed
8 100000 of her people, and Germany
| more than 100000. Ireland, with
more than 100000; Great Britain
with a little less than 100000; and
Scandinavia, with something less than
100000, have together with Germany
contributed more than half of the to-
tai immigration since the beginning
of the Revolutionary War.
| Change In German Figures.
"When we take the German immi-
grafton of the United States between
1776 and 1890, and compare it with
that from other countries, a somewhat
startling result, and one usually I'M
suspected, is disclosed. The total ar
rivals of aliens in those ia years ag-
gregated 15,689,000, of whom more
than 100000 were British and Irish,
and 5,125,000 were Germans, which
shows that one alien out Of every
three arriving in America during more
than a century of our existence was
a German Only the United Kingdom
shows greater proportion.
| "Since 1890 the trend has been very
| different. With more than 100000
immigrant arrivals since that date,
only 100000 have been Germans. If
from this number a proper deduction
| is made for those who returned to
| their homeland, and those who have
died since their arrival, it will be seen
| that there are fewer than 100000
former subjects of the Kaiser, in this
country who have not been here more
than 26 years. Of more than 100000
people of German birth and immediate
ancestry among us, less than 100000
Efail to have the background of birth
or long residence in America behind
| them.
The charts published by the Geo
| graphic Society show that the Euro
pean and Canadian-born population OF
| the country is to a great extent cen,
| tered in three states, namely, New
York, Pennsylvania and Illinois. In
| the southern states the foreign popu
llation is so small that it does not fig
ure in the charts.
Many Prefer the Cities.
| although the people OF foreign
| BIRTH" the article adds, constitute
only one-seventh of the country's pop.
ulation, they contribute nearly one,
fourth (22 per cent, of the arm-bear.
ling strength of the nation. At the
/ last census many of the states had
| greater number of foreign-bOrn men
of arm-bearing age than they had OF
native-ancestry citizens, among them
| Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connect
lieut., New York, New Jersey, Wiscon.
| sin, Minnesota and North Dakota
Taking the states where those of for
| eign birth and their sons together con
stitute a major portion of the men be
tween the ages of Is and AZ, it will be
found that the list includes the above
states and the following: New Hamp
shire, Pennsylvania, Michigan, South
Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho
Arizona, Utah, Washington and Cali
fornia-in all 20 states. We have con
siderably over 100000 men of mill
ltary age in the United States.
| "Another striking fact of our i'm
migration situation is the unusua
preference of the foreign-born ant
their children for the cities. Of the
l35, 100000 foreign-stock whites living
in the United States, approximately
%, 100000 live in the cities. In only
IA of the SO leading cities of the coun
try do the white of full native parent
age constitute as much as half of thf
total population. Only One-fifth OF the
population of New York and Chicago i:
of native white ancestry. Less than
third of the populations OF Boston
Cleveland, Pittsburg, Detroit Buffalo
San Francisco, Milwaukee, Newark
Minneapolis, Jersey City, Providence
st. Paul, Worcester Scranton, Pater
son, Fall River, Lowell, Cambridge
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