Speech #680070870

The Senator from Massachusetts suggests that was 1852. At. the same time there was a. considerable French. immigration. and a very considerable Immigration from the Scandinavian countries. The latter part of that period. which runs from 1820 to 1882. was the time when we got the great inpouring of northern and western Europeans. nd then. beginning about 1882. there came a change.in the quality of our immigration. I think it can be best shown graphically by this chart. This chart shows six successive decades of American immigration. The first column shows the immigration that took place during the decade that began with the year 1861 and came down to 1870. You will notice that 38 per cent of all the arrivals in that decade came from the United Kingdom. 35 per cent came from Germany. This green section. which represents all others than the five countrie% specially named here. Is large in that decade. because it includes a considerable number of Scandinavians. of Dutch. of French. and Swiss. but that. as you see. diminishes as we come down toward the present. The chart shows the change In the quality of the immigration from decade to decade. As we come on up to the period which began in 1881 we notice that the amount of immigration from Russia. Italy. and AustriaHungary begins to be material. In the first decade that Is shown on this chart the total for those three countries is only a trifle over 1 per cent.