Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — IMMIGRATION. [ARTICLE]

IMMIGRATION.

The Remarkable Increase In Immigration to America. Figures From Official Sourees—The Course of 1 the Empire Westward. The immigration into the United States from 1820 to 1890 is the subject of a special report which has been prepared by Major Brock, tho Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, and will soon be published. No official record was made of the influx of foreign population to this country before 1820, but the immigration from the close of the revolutionary war to that time is estimated at 225,000. The arrivalsof immlgiants from 1821 to 1890 have reached 15,641,(588. The proportion of arrivals from Europe has increased from 68.89 per cent of the whole immigration in the decade from 1821 .to 1830 to 91.67 per cent, in the last decade, from 1881 to 1890. The following figures give the arrivals of each nationality during the entire period from 1820 to 18£0: Germany, 4,551,719; Ireland, 3,501,683; England, 2,460,034; British North American possessions, 1,029,023; Norway and Sweden, 943,330; Austria-Hungary, 464,435; Italy, 414,513; France, 370,162; Russia and Poland, 356,353; Scotland, 329,192; China, 292,578; Switzerland, 174,333; Denmark, 146,237; all other countries, 606,006. The only leading countries from which arrivals have fallen off during the last ten years are France and China. The year of the largest immigration yet reported was that ended June 32, 1882, when the arrivals were 788,992. The immigration from Italy to the United States was 15,401 for the fiscal year 1881, and has steadily increased until 1891, when it was 52,003, and the present year ending June 30,1891, when the total for ten months has reached 51,153, as against 34,310 for the corresponding months of 1890. The immigration from Hungary, Russia and Poland also shows a rapid increase. Of the arrivals during the ten years from 1881 to 1890, 3,205.911, or 61.1 per cent., were males and 2,040,702 or 38.9 per cent, females. The greatest proportion of females has come from Ireland. The smallest percentage of females from Italy and Hungary. The classification of the character of the immigration during the past decade shows that only 26,250 males were of the professional class, 541,552 were of skilled labor, 1,883,325 were of miscellaneous occupations, 73,327 made no statement In regard to occupation, and 7 <9,450 were without occupation. Of the 2,040,705 females 1,724,454 were without occupation.