Polish --------------------------------- 100.700 37.333 138.033 9.602 125.904 2.527 3.091 19.842 2.369 110.616 1.537.572 4.05 8 Portuguese ------------------------5.812 3.836 9.648 2.431 6.581 636 4 5.524 721 5.678 129.423 540 Roumanian --------.------------------ 17.779 1.421 19.200 248 18.314 638 38 7.373 199 17.944 267.037 539 Russian ------------------------------- 15.095 1.712 16.807 740 15.774 293 147 6.998 726 13.646 242.686 264 Ruthenian (Russniak) ---------------18.451 5.630 24.081 731 22.952 398 114 12.930 209 21.460 274.282 1.366 Scandinavian ------------------------ 34.164 19.261 53.425 4.840 46.606 1.979 63 475 4.955 38.171 1.120.208 4.026 Scotch --------------------------- 13.666 6.850 20.516 3.242 16.060 1.214 18 149 6.495 7.889 895.936 2.398 Slovak -------------------------- 28.951 13.090 42.041 3.766 37.319 956 101 8.130 751 35.057 580.850 4.219 Spanish --------------------------- .268 2.227 9.495 1.596 7.491 408 31 2.617 2.465 5.60 352.511 1.214 SpanishAmerican --------------------- 734 326 1.060 159 802 98 1 16 658 so 92.058 344 Syrian -------------------------------- 4.276 1.604 5.880 664 5.044 172 14 2.870 1.259 3.134 182.64 447 Turkish --------------------------- 1.855 47 1.902 18 1.863 21 1 1.262 108 1.723 39.362 71 Welsh --------------- ---------- 1.852 502 2.754 466 2.114 174 6 18 854 1.059 124.997 281 West Indian (except Cuban)---------- -778 603 1.381 179 1.083 119 4 16 520 423 54.922 361 All other peoples --------------------1.954 104 2.058 5 1.965 35 1 929 173 1.679 71.931 49 Total ----------------------929.976 355.873 1.285.349 138.344 1.100.771 4.234 .5.829 337.573 107.502 873.923 25.599.893 74.282 It will be observed that the number of English unable to read and write is only 536. of French. 170. of Germans. 5.310. of Irish. 713. Italians from the southern part of Italy. 115.803. of the Poles. 49.842. and altogether footing up a total of 337.573 persons over 14 years of age unable to read and write. In the report of the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration this statement is made: What will be the effect If the present phenomenal Immigration continues is a question that Is constantly being asked. With regard more particularly to quantity. the question may be answered by the followlng illustraition: China proper is the thickly populated portion of the Chinese Empire and is the country popularly thought of as representing the limit of density of population. With a net increase to our population by immigration of 1.000.000 per annum. which is less than the present rate. and the present rate of natural increase14.66 per cent per decadethe United States would reach the density of China proper In about four generations. or. more particularly. in one hundred and. thirtyfour years. at which time we would have a population of 950.000.000. This is in no sense an estimate of future population. it is simply an illustration of the present pace.
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Large numbers of immigrants are unable to read and write.