The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-11-13
IMMIGRATION IS
MOSTLY BRITISH
Figures for One Hundred Years Show
33.20O,1O3 Aliens Were Admitted
to U. S.-Many From Canada, but
More From Ireland.
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Washington, Nov. Figures for
the past 100 years of American immi-
grafton, which have just been COM
piled by the Census Bureau, show
33, 200,103 immigrant aliens were ad-
mitted to the United States during
that time. Of this total, 1852, 1913
were from Europe, 7SS, 200 from Asia,
and 1,SS3,S67 from British North
America.
The United Kingdom ranks first as
source of American immigration
since 1920, followed by Germany,
Italy, Austria Hungary, the Russian
Empire and British North America.
Since 1869 Sweden has sent 1,110,377
immigrants to the United States and
France has contributed 523, S20 in the
past hundred years.
In 1920 the United Kingdom was
credited with 6,664 of the total of
1886 immigrants admitted, and for
nearly half a century continued to
send annually greater numbers than
any other nation, of which the Irish
constituted the predominant element.
In view of its size, it is remarkable
that Ireland has supplied 4,34S, 759
immigrants in the last one hundred
years-a number practically equal to
its present population.
The statistics show that in certain
years the Irish element not only out
numbered all other immigrants from
Europe, but exceeded the total immi-
grafton from all other countries.
Italian immigration is of compare
lively recent growth, according to the
report. The total of arrivals prior to
1856 was insignificant, but by 1880
there was an ever-increasing number
admitted annually, rising to 100,135 in
1900, and reaching the high record of
285,731 in 1907, or % per cent of the
total immigration in that year. The
total number of arrivals from italy
during the one hundred years just
ended is 4,100,735.
The total number of immigrant
aliens admitted into the United States
from Germany during the century un-
der review was 5,494 ,63S. Immigra-
ton from Austria Hungary began in
1861. Until 1869 the arrivals each
year were numbered in three figures.
in four figures until 1880 and there
after in five figures until 1900. Ar
rivals exceeded 100000 annually UNI
til 1915. The total number of immi-
grants from Austria Hungary for the
100 years ending June, 80, 1919, was
4, 068,461.
An aggregate of 3,279 immigrants
from European Russia arrived in the
United States during the last 100
years.
Every sort of occupation from
banker to servant, are represented.
In 1920, out of a total of los alien
immigrants of the professional class
admitted, AZ were physicians and sur
geons and "a were clergymen. These
two classes were largely predominant.
among the professions given for sew
eral decades. Lawyers, artists, mu-
sicians and teachers also have been
coming in increasing numbers since
1920. Not single sculptor was adj
mitted to the country from 1920 to
1861, and engravers, editors and Jour
nalists were likewise conspicuous by
their total absence.
OF the immigrant skilled loborers
admitted since 1920, "mechanics not
specified" constitute perhaps the larg-
est class, tho mariners also have
been arriving in considerable num-
bers. Only a few miners are to be
noted in the returns prior to 1S48, but
large numbers have arrived since and
aided in the development of the min
eral wealth of the United States. For
the year ending June 30,1919, teach
ers led among the professional class
es, clerks and accountants, followed
by mariners among the skilled labor
and unskilled laborers among the mis-
cellaneous groups.