South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-09-05
MILLIONS VISIT
AMERICA IN THE
PAST 100 YEARS
in Same Time Population
Increases Ninety-Seven
Millions.

WASHINGTON. Sept. Thirty
four millions immi grants have en-
tered the United States iu the past
century In the same time the
popuIatfon OF the country has in-
creased 1900 900.
Until the world war the effect ~
Immigration on the population IN
rrCase was very marked, amounting
10 more than 80 percent IN the .
cade ending IN 1910. To exceeded
90 percent in the Ten years en- .'tS
with the present year aIr immlerd-
ton bureau officials arc o. the opln-
loE tn.; pad the war not nttrVcn'd
the uercentaRe fo- lls dC-tdc
would have been greater t1au mat
Of t1a lrst.
During the FIRST n years Of the
century or from 1920 10 1880 the
rumbor Of immigrants arriving iu
The United states was less than one
perce0t OF the IN crease in pOpula-
ton. the figures being 1899 inn
migrants and 3.225.56l population
increase In the next 10 ears this
one percent had grown 20 ] ., the
census Of 1870 showing popula-
ton OF t1.O69.4J3 with an increase
Of 4.2O2.433 while during the same
UerlOd 599.125 immigrants entered
the country.
In the next decade ended i'm 1850
the population increased 6,122,42"
while immigration totalled 1.I13.-
PSI. or slightly more thar 10 per
cent.
In the ten years ended I'm 1860 the
poDuIatiCn increase was b,25l, 440
while immigrants entering the coun-
try mum bered 2,59S,214 or more than
25 percent of the population in
crease.
The next decade saw the pOpula
ton increase 7.115,050 and immiera-
ton totaued 2.314.824 or slightly
more than IS percent The per
ccntage decreased during the ten
years ended with 1850 owing 10 an
unusually large increase in popula-
tfo- This increase was 1857, AZ
while tho total of immigration was
2si-.191 or about 70 percent In
the decide ended in 1890 the popula-
ton increased 12.791,93l while o.
246.6I3 immigrants entered the
country making the percentag1
about 40 percent.
In the succeeding decade ended IN
1900 there was n sharp decrease in
immigration vi IN The result that per
sons coming into the country repre-
scented only about % percent OF the
p0uulation incre asa. This was d.
O46.S61 while the number Of imn'-
grants arriving was 3S44.42O.
While the population increase re-
NAMED at about the same ratio dur
ing the decade ending in 1910 there
was a very decided increase in the
number OF immigrants. the former
being 15,977,6991 and the latter s.
1886
The estimated increase for the ten
vars ended this year $500 is IA
600. 900 while the total number or
immigrants during this period was
100000 The percentage ratio thus
was only about AZ percent, this be-
ing due 10 the falling off in immi-
grafton during the four years of the
OF the $4,000. 900 immigrants en-
terfnR the country in the last 100
years. nearly one-fourth of them, or
S2O5.675 came from England. Ire
land. Scotland and Wales. Germany
furnished the second largest num-
Der. 5.495.539 and Italy the third
largest. 41OO.74O. Austria Hungary
was next behind Italy with 4,06S, 446,
while Russia was fifth with 5.31 L.
4O6. The Scandinavian countries,
Denmark. Norway and Sweden, have
cent a.I34.414 Of their citizens 10 the
United States.
The total Of immigration from
France in the 100 years has been
-.S.SO6. the largest number from
that country. 20l26, coming here ln
1851. Switzerland has sent 256.7O7
Iersons To the United states and the
Netherlands 214.50S. British North
America. including Canada. has sent
Ss445O and MexicJ 21T256.
Belgium and Pumaria have sent
the smallest mum Der OF any or the
European countries. the total FOR the
former being 1857 and for the lat
ter 1922. Il was not until 1894
that the nationals Of these two coun-
tries as we'll as those of Portugal.
Greece and Turkey began coming
across the Atlantic i'm any appreci-
able numbers
The total for Portugal is given by
the immigration bureau as 169.7O2;
for Greece 352,SS3 and for Turkey
a11.4O4.
Chinese immigrants have num-
hered 2SS29S, beginning i'm 1858
with A. and virtually ending I'm 1883
with s.O31. The peak was i'm 1882
when 39.579 Chinese arrived.
Chinese exclusion laws became ef-
fective about that time.
Immigration from Japan was first
taken note OF in 1892 and reached
its peak OF 30.226 in the year 1907.
IN 1919, 1O.0G4 japanese entered the
United States. while the total fer
the q years was 229,Q30.
From countries not specified in
Guiding parts OF Poland Serbia and
many others have come a total OF
100000.
At the outset England. Ireland