The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-12-23
INTERESTING IMMIGRATION
FIGURES

III . e
The following is a digest of an arti-
Gle appearing in the November issue
of the N. G. w. G. Bulletin by Joseph
l. Breen, European Representative,
Bureau of Immigration, N. C. w. C.
He tells MS. for instance, that dur
ing the last 20 years more than 15,-
100000 immigrants arrived on our
shores. In one year, 1907, there were
more than 1855, ,000--more than twice
the population of the State of Rhode
Island Tile number Of immigrants
who came to us during this period is
greater than the total population of all
our states west of the Mississippi
with the exception of California.
Texas, Missouri and Iowa From Eu-
rope alone came a number greater
than the total population Of the Re-
public of Czecho-Slovakia. Among
these there were more Italians than
are to be found in the seven great
Italian cities of Naples, Milan, Turin,
Palermo, Rome, Genoa and Florence.
There were more Poles than there are
in the great Polish city of Warsaw,
more Germans than in Hamburg and
more Irish thar there are in the Irish
Province OF Connaught. If all the
English who came among us during
this period had settled in Boston, that
city would have doubled it's popula-
tion with enough left over to build
another city as big as Fall River. The
number OF Scandinavian immigrants is
twice the number of our American In
dians We admitted one-tenth of all
the Jews of the world, number great
er than the total number of Jews in
France, Germany. Holland, Rumania,
Palestine, Armenia, Morocco, and Ar
gentine. The Greeks who came out
number the people of the State of
Nevada by more than to l. The Slo-
walks would double the population of
all the New Hampshire towns above
5000 with sufficient numbers left over
to do the same thing in Arizona The
population Of the largest city in New
Jersey is less than the number of
Hungarian immigrants while the Croats
and Sloyenes are greater in num-
bers than the total voting population
of the State of Colorado.
Among these immigrants there were
representatives of As different races of
people, speaking 81 different ianguag'
es or dialects. There were Firms
from the Gulf of Bothnia, Syrians from
the Isle of Cyprus and Jews from ia
pan. There were Blacks from Java and
Blacks from Jamaica, Portuguese from
Russia and Poles from Wales. There
were 10000 Chinese and five times as
many Japanese. There were $4,000
Dalmatians, Bosnians and HerZgo-
vinians and as many Rumanians, Bull
garians, Serbs, Armenians and Russ
niaks as there were Irish.
About 40 per cent of all our immi-
and then go home Compared with
the numbers arriving during the past
20 years, So per cent of the Firms, 65
per cent of the Hungarians, and Sc per
cent of the Russians left us. So, too,
did 55 per cent Of the Slovaks, So per
cent of the Greeks, SO per cent of the
Italians, 38 per cent of the Poles, 80
per cent of the Scandinavians, 18 per
cent of the Germans, 13 per cent of
the Irish and less than S per cent of
the Jews.
More than 100000 Italian Catholics
came to this country as immigrants
during the past 20 years. There were
more than 10000 Catholic Poles, $780,
900 Catholic Germans, $4,000 Catholic
Slovaks and 100000 each of the Catho-
lie Croats and Slovenes, Catholic
French and Catholic Mexicans. Be
fore the war. more than 10000 Catho-
lie immigrant children arrived in this
country each year.