People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — WHERE ILLITERATE IMMIGRANTS COME FROM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHERE ILLITERATE IMMIGRANTS COME FROM.

Percentages of illiteracy among immigrants from those nations of Europe which sent upward of 2,000 immigrants to the United States during the fiscal year 1895-90. COMING FROM NORTH- kROM EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE. SOUTHERN EUROPE.

The black part shows the proportion of those over fourteen years of age who could not read and write in any language.

Average of Group, 4.5 Per Cent. Switzerland 0.8 Denmark 0.9 Sweden and Norway... 1.2 Germany 3.0 France 4.0 England 5.4 Scotland 5.7 Ireland 7.0 Finland 11.8

Average of Group ,47.9 Per Cent. Greece 20.2 Russia 4i.i Austria-Hungary 45.0 Italy Portugal 77.7

A law providing for the exclusion of illiterates would affect very slightly those races which have built up the country but Would debar considerable numbers of immigrants from the less desirable peaces which have but recently begun to come in large numbers, and who congregate in the lower quarters of the Atlantic seaboard cities. In 1809 the immigrants from Austria-Hungary, Italy, Russia and Poland were about l-100th of the number from the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Scandinavia; in 1880 about l-10th, in 1894 nearly equal to it, in 1890 l-3d greater.