Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-16

and mothers and 6,500,000 children of
foreign born fathers and native
mothers, or vice versa. When all of
these have been deducted from the
100, 900, 900 only 54,OOO,OOO remain of full
white native ancestry.
yet the 35,O0O,OOO American people
who are of foreign stock-that is,
foreign born or the children of for
eign-born parent-include some of the
most illustrious citizens Of our Repub-
lie. Even the president of the United
States himself has only one ancestor
who was born in America, and the list
is long and notable Of statesmen,
captains of industry, leaders Of finance,
inventors, makers of literature and
progress, who have strains OF blood not
more than one generation on this side
IF the sea,
AN examination of the statistics of
American immigration shows that
since the foundation Of our govern
nent the United Kingdom of Great
8ritain and Ireland have contributed
100000 Of her people and Germany
more than six million. Ireland with
more than four Million Great Britain,
with a little less than four million and
Scandinavia, with something less than
two million, have together with Ger
many, contributed more than half Of
the total immigration to our shores
since the beginning OF the Revolution
ary War.
when we take the German immi-
grafton of the United States between
I776 and 1890 and compare it with that
from other countries, a somewhat
startling result, and one usually un-
suspected, is disclosed. The total ar
rivals OF aliens in those ia years ag-
sreGated 15.689,OOO, of whom more
than 100000 were British and Irish
and 5,123OO0 were Germans, which
shows, that one alien out Of every three
arriving in America during more than
1 century Of our eXistance was a Ger
man. Only the United Kingdom shows
a greater proportion.
"Since 1890 the trend has been very
different. With more than 1000, 900
immigrant arrivals since that date,
only 1,023,000 have been Germans. II
from this number n proper deduction
S made for those who returned to their
homeland and. those who have died
4ince their arrival, it will be seen that
here are fewer than million former
subjects Of the kaiser in this country
Who have not been here more than
twenty-siy years. OF more than g.
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. ,,a
1T is interesting to Yote the other
foreign elements that have entered in
to the makeup of American popula-
tion since 177G. What a wealth Of
blood that wonderful little island, Ire
land, has given us! More Irish people
have crossed the seas to become part
of us than have remained behind. 1t
is remarkable that so small an island
cmalleIf indeed, than the state of Main
could in a century ana Il half send
Us enough people TO duplicate the pre-
"ent population of eleven of our states
having an aggregate area as large as
the United Kingdom, FRANCE, Germany
md Austria Hungary together.
Austria Hungary stands next on the
list Of contributors to the immigrant
stream that has flowed from Europe to
America. Although AuSti'o- -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
monarchy to populate the state of
Texas to its present density. Italy has
"ent us enough of her people TO dupl-
cate the population Of Montana, Wyo-
ming Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah,
Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico
while England'S and Scotland's contri-
button, 3,SS0,OO0 in ALL together with
Ircland's 100000 gives total of s.
39S,OOO, or plenty to populate all of the
states lying west Of Texas and the
Dakotas. The Russians who have
come to our shores number 3,419,OOO.
They could replace, one-half Of the
of New England"