The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-06-08
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sea.
"An examination OF the statistics OF
American immigration shows that since
the foundation of our government
Great Britain has contributed S,400,0o0
of her people and Germany more than
100000 Ireland with more than A.
100000 the rest of Great Britain with
little less than 100000 and Scandl-
nayla, with something less than 2,0oo,-
900, have, together with Germany CON
tributed more than half of the total Inn
migration to our shores since the be-
ginning of the Revolutionary war.
"When we take the German immigra-
tion OF the United States between l1I6
and 1890 and compare 1t with that from
other countries, a somewhat startling
result, and one usually uhsuspected, Is
disclosed The total arrivals of aliens
In those ia years aggregated 15,60S,-
600. or whom more than 6.0OO,OOO were
British and Irish, and 5,125,o00 were
Germans, which shows that one allen
out of every three arriving In America
/ during more than century of our ex-
! istence was German. Only Great
Britain shows greater proportion.
! "Since 1890 the trend has been very
different. With more than 100000
Immigrant arrivals since that date, only
.023,00 have been Germans. IL from
this number proper deduction Is
made for those who returned to their
homeland and those who have died
since their arrival. 1t will be seen that
there are fewer than a million former
subjects of the kaiser In this country
who have mot been here more than 26
years. OF more than 100000 people
of German birth and immediate ances-
try among us less than million fall
to have background of birth or long
residence In America behind them.
ireland Sends Many.
at Is interesting to note the other
foreign elements that have entered In
to the makeup of American population
since 1776. What wealth of blood
that wonderful little island, Ireland
has given us. More Irish have crossed
the seas TO become part of us than
have remained behind. II Is remark
able that so small an island-smaller
indeed than the state of Maine--could
in century and half send us enough
people TO duplicate the present popu-
lation of eleven of our states having
an aggregate area as large as the Uni
ted Kingdom, France, Germany and
Austria-Hungary together.
Austria stands next on the list of
contributors. Italy has sent us enough
of her people to duplicate the popula-
ton of Montana. Wyoming, Idaho, Ore
gon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona
and New Mexico, while England's ana
Scotland's contribution, 3,SS9,0O0 in all,
together with Ireland's 100000, gives
a total of S,3S9oO0, or plenty TO popu-
late all the states lying west of Texas
and the Dakotas. The Russians who
have come to our shores number 3,419,-
OO0."
In considering the part that New
York city has played in aiding TO as
simulate this vast influx, it is pointed
out that three persons out Of every
four here were born. under foreign
flags or are the children of the foreign
boIn. Commenting on how the one
Fourth of the city's population, that Is,
or native ancestry, mas AmericanlzeG
the three-fourths that is foreign in
birth or parentage, the society says:
He who studies at first hand the
processes of Americahization and citi-
zen building finds work being done
which would stir the heart Of the most
Unconditional observer. He realizes that
all of what Is called New York's poll
tics, stories Of graft and the like, are
but the froth and foam which fleck the
waves of the city's life, while beneath
runs deep current of progress and
public spirit which takes form In care i
fully conceived and splendidly execut- |
ed health laws, In school system that |
has accomplished wonders. in water |
system surprising anything of its kind
on earth.
Vocational Education,
Along with many other cities, New |
York learned that a vast majority of /
the children who attend public schools |
do not 90 to college afterward. From
that suggestion developed the idea of |
vocational education which is now ac-
wonders. Perhaps more
than any other one agent II is. helping
TO transform in heart and action the
alien life of the metropolis into part
ana parcel'o of our body polite The i'm
migrants children are being fitted for
that economic Independence which
comes with skilled hands instead of be-
Ing sent forth from school with un-
trained hands and poorly trained
minds.
when one reflects that seven out of |
every nine children of school age In
New York are of immigrant parentage,
A situation is disclosed that might be
termed startling, especially when It is
thpt the school army fs On