Alexandria Monroe High School - Spectrum Yearbook (Alexandria, IN)

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contrrbutmg 37 per cent of the 1111010 Durlng the decade the Chlnese assumed lmportance In the decade of 1861 10 1 ermans about held the1r own at 34 per cent the other elements demrnrshed The lmrmgratlon fl om Norway and Sweden tlrst. became rmportant at that tune In the next decade that from 1811 80 st1ll farthtr changss m the constl tutron of 1mm1grat1on are to be noted lhe Bfltlbh '1 am exceaded the Germans The Br1t1sh Amerlcans const1tuted 14 per cent and the natnes of Norway and Sweden about 8 per cent The Russxans Poles and Hungauans began to assume lmportan e 1n thls decade From 1881 to 1890 the change wx as st1ll greater Of the 5 246 613 only 17 5 per cent were from Ireland 15 5 per cent from other parts of the 1 Illtthd Ixm dom Durlng the last th11t1 rears the proportmn of Irlsh has decxded ly fallen oft and that of the Enghsh and Scotch has demxnrshed The german rmmrgratron has nearly held 1ts own If the present contrnue they w1ll soon outnumber all others 1n the annual mcom mg The Stat1st1cs of emrgratxon and 1mm1grat1on are coprous enough but be1ng varrously recorded by the numerous states and colon1es lt IS no easv task to brmg them together ln a general table or to reduce them w1th1n modern compass The followmg statement shows the countrles from wh1ch the pr1nc1pal elements of the total 1mm1g1at1on of the past 78 years have been dern ed INUMBER FROVI COUWIED 1821 to me 1 888 085 318 250 3 815 499 193 398 5 007 899 1 203 133 1 048 021 196 338 Italy 857 065 Lngland and Wales Scotland Ireland Great Br1ta1n not specrtled Germany Nlorwav and Sweden Br1t1sh Worth kmerlcan Provmces Austrra Hungary France Russra xncludmg POl'1Ilt1 Chmh Svutfexland Denmark Nlethexlands Oth: 1 K ountnes Total 391 845 733 996 310 -119 201 D55 189 731 129 966 140 616 18 490 378 Imxmgr 1t1on l1as steadrly 1ncreased smce 1898 'md at we average 1 000 000 a year present It IS unnossrble for am but the most reckless or foollsh opto m1st1c to consrdel these figures presented wrthout reallzlng thelr seuous bearmg upon our v. ell be1ng The1r power to ass1m1late for Amerlcan 1nst1tut1ons and c1w1l1zat1on rnstead of danger 1n nerlods of stra1n and tr1al has become a quest1on that IS wrdelw d1scussed Human bemgs vary n tso much because of any ID herent dxfference. of nature as because of the drfference ln the mold ng lnfluence of wluch at every stage of development they are the product The 1mm1grat1on problem of the future IS gomg to be unmeas 111831316 more d1fIicult than It IS todav Furthermore the new 1mm1grat1on from Austr1a Hungary Italy Russra Poland Greece the Balkan Penmsula Syrla etc whlch has only Just begun w1ll contmue to mcrease w1th 1ncreas1ng fac1l1ty for transportat1on Was not the late General Franc1s A Walker when he sa1d that the trde of 1m1n1grat1on w1ll flow on as long as there IS any drfference of economlc level between our own populatron and that of the most degraded communltres abroad nght? It IS clear that we are not properly asslmllatlng our forelgn populatlon when a Judge 1n New York State reJects the naturalr zat1on papers of srxty persons on the ground that when a man has been rn th1s country for five years and cannot speak our lan guage he IS not fitted to be admrtted to c1t1zensh1p Good 1mm1 gratron always has been and always w1ll be an advantage to our . . Q ski- . . L 1 . . . , , . l y 3 H 1 ' . , F - 7 I I I ' . , . . . . . . . . . . , . , , W K . A ' '. V i - - , - x A . . 1 ...,...... 1 . , Y 5 F ' - F' , ' , 47 ' 1 1 '- ' ,,., ....... ........ , 4- 40 v , n u , 1 v 1 4 I , ' ' ' . Q' ,' , 1 - ' 3 ,.................... . . , v . . A I 'Y N ' 1 I L -..... ..,. .... . g F . ' v N kT Q v C 1 . -i A ' y . 1 Y Y ' - Q K. .. -...,. ,.,....,. , ' , 1 Y Q J Zh v . 'V' , , . . y - . 2 . . . . 1 1 1 Q . v v ' ', ' I K ' 'L I . J. . I ' U K A . l . . . fate iff immiSTaQl0I1 0f the Poles. RUSSHHS, IUQUHHS 3-Hd B011E?UllaUS with the people of this country, and to become a source of strength . . . . . . . . . I ' . . . I 7 . . ' , -fy ' ' . . . , fl I 1 ' . . L 'Y . . L' V - I x ' . n I , ' Y ' v I -. . . . ' . I . . . , , f, v V A ' 1 1 L 1 1 s n I ,q n , .vu a a Y n 1 ..,.., . . . . . . . , 1 , , ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H y 14 ' ' ' ' ' 1 . ' ' . . . . . . . 4 4 1 - - - 4 . . . . . 1 1 . . . , n v . . . . ,. . . ,, . , ....., . . , , . v Y . . . . . . ..... . . . . , . . . , 3 ' . I g . . L ' V' ' . . . . . . . . . , , , , , U , - . . y . '. , , 1 1 . , . , , - - - ' . . . . . ,, . . . . . , . . ...., , . , , y i ,

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Immrgratzon mto e Unrted States rnrhrrtron ron onr of the most constant and orderly moxemcnts of human socrrtx It nrust hare bren one f the carlrcst lrowxer 1r regular of human rm pulses atleast rt rs a necessary rrsult of the xncrrrse rn populatron urthrn 1 lrmrted though chcrrsherl space of the appornted dcstrny of our race o people and de From thrs great more ment SKl1lCl1l13S xarrous causes tlrel nrted States has aluaxs recerred her due share Not only the tammes whrch may be sard to present the pr s ure of papulatron rn rts rntensestform but wars of ofllcrar conquest and ambrtron rclrgrous persucutrons crvrl brorls and polrtrcrl rexolutrens the drscorery of gold and srlwer mrnes the enry of more genral clrrnes and fertrle lands than people have b en born to the rndrvrdual lore of change and adxeuture and puslrrnff one s fortune har e consrderable pow er rn peomotrng emr gratron apa t from the rude pressure of phx sreal wants The Irrsh famrne of 1816 led rmmedratelv to one of the most re marlrable removals of persons and famrlres from one hemesphere to another rn modrrn trmes Phat natronalrty furnrshed 46 per cent of the w hole rmmreratron rnto the Ifnrted States rn the decade 1841 50 't mowement whrch rs to be recoffnrzed rs one of the necessarv condrtrons of human progress rs thus sern adxancrng rn rts carry hrstorr from acollrsron of rnterests and rrcrrwrng both rmpulse and adxantagre from all the drscords wars and drthcultres of socral md polrtrral lrfe It may be pre umcd that ernrgratron has non attarnrd so many wars and means and so xr ell establrshed an or der as to proref d more spontaneously rnd functronrllx and be less rndebted to wrolent forces for rts rmpulsron than rn past trmes Immrgratron rs not confmrd to any certarn racr ter ordrng to thr lnstorran Bancroft the colonrcs rn 1115 nerr rnhabrtc d by per sons one fifth of rs hom had for therr mother tongue sorrr other languag than tl1CII1gl1bl1 Thrsc prrsons uere chrrtly Irench Sur des Dutch and I erman Prror to 1871 the Gm crnmenttoclr no account oi rnunrgr rtron but from that year on tht statrstrcs of rrnrnrgxatron a collected and reported by the treasury department haw furnrsherl the facts on uhrch a drscussron of the socral characterrstrcs of the pr ople must be based In addrtron to the rmmrgratron returns the I ed forerffn born persons and srnce 1880 has rncluded also natrx es hawmg forelgn parcntage For ntarlx half a century rrnmrgratron to thrs country has been upon an enormous scale Ior many years pr ror to 1821 rt was but trrtlrng rn amount and lndeed rt u as not untrl about 1844 that rmmrgratron upon a consrderable scale began Xt that trrne as has been prewrously stated the succrssron or farnrnes rn Ireland caused an exodus from that countrx the vrst body og rrnrnrgratron comrnff to thrs country and from that trme to the present trrne there has been a wery large nrrgratron across the Xtlantrc Tl e great elements of rrnmrgratron hate bren tne Brrtrsh Em prre Qrncludrng England V1 ales qcotland and Irelandj C ermany Scandanawra and the Slat races In the hrst decade of uhrch there rs a record 1871 30 the Brrtrsh contrrbutron rr as 53 per cent of the whole the French ccntrrbutron u as only 6 per cent In 1831 10 the total Brrtrsh contrrbutron xr as 47 per cent In 1841 50 the Irrsh furnrshed 46 per cent other Brrtrsh elements 15 per cent and Germans strll held 25 ptr cent The decade from 1851 60 marks the firs' drstrnct change rn the proportrons the Germans nd Y, . . . . 4 I I . ' l rw l I-I A 1, , -,,,. Y, iw Y H14 iv- 5 , 1 ' q I 1 1 3 1 , i -W , I W . ., . K 7 K. 5 In 0 r , r , rs . . : . V s 2 I . ' ,, Y : . . V ' 1 - , 2 ' 1 v f , L , r , . . U, 2 r r' tr-I. , l . . . . . : U . . . v ' . w. - . '- r r o f ' . 1 ' ' +. - ' ' . 1 2 VV .- pm . .1 . ,, .X V - : ' . ' . 1 , 5 , ., t 1 . g 'Q : . ' U , , ' ' . as ' . , . . I 7' . . r -Q il' . . Y . ', , L Q all ,' : E . c , ' , r, ,. 5 . 3 g ' S .f , ' ., ' r , 'r . ., l I ' i ' Y ' ' I 8 2 f 3 M ' . . . . .' , 0 : . 1 - . . , , 3. ,' ' ' ' . ' xl . I w .fr ' 1 5 velo the world. eral census has for man rears furnrshed accounts of natrre and E ' . ' . - U- U . T, ,. , '1 . - , - , - 3 L ' . ' - ', . . g . . V . . . ' . . . . I ' L. . n 4 O I K' w . , 'I . ' 7 :UOOCDOUO OIOIOIII ICODQCIO OIIUIOCI IQIUUIIQ ...ICICI QQfIQQ,l: X I ' ' . V , I lk ' 'cvs A K. . .k. lu ' v V .1 F X wh tv , . . x 'Ir , X' , ' . ,, . , , ' , Z . , v , ., . I . , , y I I 3 1 ' 'q x I I ' V . . 1 . , 4 ' Y . . l ' L , If ' AI V Yi .'v, . I fl ll 1 I . uv xl N I L - 7 . . I ' u . ' 'J I - , , V 7' V, . X . 1 . l , . . . . . .N . ' . . ' 'D ' ' T . . I ' . - 1 If ' ,

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