The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-06-18
$4,000,
in IA Years

porn parentS-includes some of the
most illustrious citizens of our repub-
TIC. Even the president of the United
states has only one ancestor who was
porn IN America, and the list Is long
ana notable of statesmen, captains Of
industry, leaders of finance. investors.
makers OF literature and progress,
VINO have strains of blood not more
than one generation on this side of the
sea.
An examination Of the statistics of
American immigration shows that since
the foundation of our government
Great Britain has contributed S.4OO, 600
of her people and Germany more than
6,o00NO. Ireland with more than A.
100000 the rest of Great Britain with
little less than 100000, and Scandi-
navla, with something less than 2,OOO,-
600, have, together with Germany con-
tributed more than half of the total i'm
migration to our shores since the be-
ginning of the Revolutionary war.
when we take the German immigra-
ton of the United States between I7T6
and 1880 and compare 1t with that from
other countries, somewhat startling
result, and one usually unsupported, Is
disclosed. The total arrivals of aliens
in those ia years aggregated $685.
600, of whom more than 100000 were
British and Irish, and 5.125,OOO were
Germans, which shows that one alien
out of every three arriving in America
during more than century Of our ex-
istence was German. Only Great
Britain shows a greater proportion.
"Since 1890 the trend has been very
different. With more than 100000
immigrant arrivals since that date. only
100000 have been Germans. If 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 not been here more than &c
years. OF more than 100000 people
of German birth and immediate ances-
try among us less than a million fall
to have a background of birth or long
residence In America behind them.
ireland Sends Many.
ut 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. 1t 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 Englands and
Scotland's contribution. 3.SS9. 600 In all.
together with Ireland's 100000. gives
a total of S,3s9. 600, 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.-
CO.,"
In considering the part that New
York city has playe,- in aiding TO as
simulate this vast influx, II Is pointed
out that three persons out OF every
four here were born under foreign
flags or are the children Of the foreign
horn. Commenting on how the one
fourth OF the city's population, that is,
of native ancestry. has Americanized
the three-fourths that is foreign In
birth or parentage, the society says:
HE who studies ar first hand the
processes of Americanizatlon and citi-
zen building finds work being done
which would stir the heart Of the most
International 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
WAKES of the city's life. while beneath
runs a deep current Of progress and
public spirit which takes form n care
fully conceived and splendidly execut-
ed health laws, In q school sySsm that