Mr. Madison Grant. one of our greatest American students of population matters. He said. speaking of that Irish immigration which on this chart is ascribed to the Irish Free State: The ScotchIrish. who were numerous on the frontier of the middle colonies. were of course of pure Scotch and English blood. although they had resided in Ireland for two or three generations. They were quite free from admixture with the earlier Irish. from whom they were cut off socially by bitter religious antagonism. and they are not to be considered as "Irish " in any sense. There was no important immigration of other elements until the middle of the nineteenth century. when Irish Catholic and German immigrants appear for the first time upon the scene. So. as it is with Germany. we have to be careful of the use of the word "Irish" in discussing the subject. Mind you. in all this I imply no discrimination. no preference for one group of Irish over the other. and lest there be misunderstanding.
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