THE UNITED STATES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 280, 19 August 1908, Page 11

THE UNITED STATES.

'STATISTICS.' There'<has; been • a marked change in the oharacter'of the'immigration into the United late .'je'arsf Up to 1820 'the territon.es. now-occupied,by the United States had received Vionjy 250,000 immigrants, filmosi;iqll; ; -from the "United' Kingdom and the countries- "Of Western Europe. Since 1820, :/ how.eVeri"; inore than 25,000,000 immigrants have* pourol' into' the United States. Of the . present i.85,000,000 inhabitants it is estimated that 45,000,000 are descendants of the .original stock, whilst 40,000,000 are tho descendants of'the 20,000,000'wh0 have entered , since. 1820. "

s Twenty-five', years ago tho stream of immigration, started to flow from tho countries of. Eastern: and South-Eastern Europe, and thisi flpw; has now increased to such an extent''thai, 76 por cent, of jiho new blood of tho matipivis .cpming from Austria-Hungary, Italy; Russia, "Greece, Turltoy, and Bulgaria.' /Hungarians, Italians, and Russians comprise: 970,000 of the 1,285,000 immigrants , : .from all sources who entered the country '/ last year. '

(This;groat flow of immigration, foreign to the: "origiiidl stock (says -Sr. ■ Bennett, the Bfitisli iGorisul General, in his annual report) has raised many serious questions as to the State's, povrer to assimilate and turn into American citizens such a mixture of peoples, marly .of'-;, whom, ill addition to speaking foreign', t-briguei, have no knowledge of Anglo-Saxon ideils or acquaintance with tho ideas •• of personal liberty and respect for laii ftid iirder.. . TheHmmigraiits admitted in the 88 years betwoeii 1820 and 1907 include the follow- ■ ; ; isrifciSh" and Irish' ......... 7,600,000 G'efhians 5,300,000 •; 2,500,000 ./Italians 2,500,000 • Russians 2,000,000 ;Scandinavians . 1,750,000 'French'" ' 500,000 ■ Other Countries 2,500,000 Thus . ' those from the. United, Kingdom amount to much less than a third of this enormous influx during tho century. During tho last quarter of a century the. United Kingdom and Germany., together have Joarcely "supplied even that quota.