Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
OUR FOREIGN BORN
They Amount to Only a Seventh
Of the Whole Population.
GERMANS IN THIS COUNTRY.

Moro Than Eight Millions Of Our Peo-
Pile Are Natives Of the Fatherland o.
Are Descended From Them-lnter-
estins immigration Facts.
During the last quarter Of a century
there has been a startling falling OF in
the percentage Of Germans in the total
number Of immigrants who have come
to our Shores says a bulletin Of the
National Geographic society. with
more than 100000 immigrant arriv-
ais since 1890 only 1.O23,OO0 have been
Germans, whereas I'm the ia years he
tween the estiW ishment Of the Ameri-
can republic and 1890 out of a total Of
15,6s9,000 immigrants there were 5,125,-
600 Gcrmans-evNry third arrival II
Tcuton.
"If from the 1,O23,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 aud those
who have died since their arrival it
will he seen hat 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 MS less
than 1,0OO,OOO fail to have the back.
ground Of birth or long residence in
America behind them.
Gan nvomfuotf,n - tho gfotf-tG.g .p
American immigration shows that since
the foundation Of our government the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
ireland has contributed 100000 Of her
people and Germany more than 6,OOO,-
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-Hungarians
began to immigrate in considerable.
numbers only when the arrivals from
western Europe had begun to fall Off,
sufficient have come from the dual mon
archy to populate the sAte 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 3,419,OO0. They could
replace onc-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
O%ne-fourth CD per cent? Of the arm
bearing strength of the nation. At the
last census many Of the states had n
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 a major portion Of the men be-
tween the ages of eighteen and forty
four, it viii be found that the list in
cludes the above named sta5es 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 2O,OOO,OOO men Of mil,
itary age in the United States.
Another striking fact of our immi-
grafton situation is the unuslGll pref
erence Of the foreign born aud their
children for the cities. OF the 10000
600 foreign stock whites living i'm the
United States approximately 2|3J0OO,OO3
live I'm the cities. In only fourteen of
the fifty leading cities Of the country
do the whites Of fun native %lnr,ntage
constitute ms much as half OF tlp total
population. only onc-ffth Of the total
population Of Ncw York and Chicago is
Of native white ancestry. Less than a
third Of the population OF Boston. Glove
laud, Pittsburgh, Detroit, buffalo, san
Francisco, Milwaukee, Newark, Mime
upolis, Jersey City, Providence. st.
Paul, Worcester, Scranton. Paterson,
tl'all 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-
slssippi ana north Of the Ohio. The
anne IS true Of the Austrians. the Bel
gians, the Hungarians, the Dutch, the
Italians, the Russians and the Welsh
New York, Pennsylvania and New Jcr-
sey have AZ per cent Of the Austrlans.
80 per cent Of the English, 80 per cent
Of the Germans, % per cent Of the Hun
garians, 45 per cent Of the Irish, IS per
cent OF the Italians, SO per cent Of the
Russians, % per cent Of the Dutch, "a