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1,000,000. The eight major mother-tongue stocks ah'eady named ac- 

 count for 87.5 per cent of the total foreign white stock. 



How small a factor the ''new" immigration from southern and eastern 

 Europe really is up to the present time, may be better shown by compar- 

 ing it with the total white population of the United States. Taking as 

 100 per cent the total white population of the United States in 1910, 

 numbering 81,731,957, the so-called "native stock" constitutes 60.5 per 

 cent and the three great linguist families of foreign stock from north- 

 western Europe constitute 27.1 per cent, making a total of 87.6 per cent. 

 The elements from southern and eastern Europe constitute, therefore, 

 less than 13 per cent of the total. Of this the two principal Latin 

 mother tongues — the*French and the Italian — contribute less than 5 per 

 cent, and the two principal Slavic mother tongues — the Polish and the 

 Bohemian — and the Hebrew, taken together, contribute also less than 

 5 per cent, leaving to all the remaining mother tongues another 5 per 

 cent or less of the total. Of the total foreign white stock of the United 

 States, 32,243,382, there are 8,817,271 persons who are of German stock 

 when counted according to mother tongue, but a trifle under 8,500,000 

 (8,495,142) of German stock when counted by their country of origin, 

 Germany. 



Immigrants from Austria are far more Slavic than Germanic. Rus- 

 sian immigration is shown to be far more Hebrew (52.3 per cent) than 

 Russian (2.5 per cent) or even Slavic. Immigration from Turkey in 

 Europe is not so much Turkish as Greek and Bulgarian. 



Both the first and the second generations of immigration from Russia 

 show that over 0.50 per cent report Yiddish and Hebrew as their mother 

 tongue. 



The returns for "Yiddish and Hebrew" reflect ethnic composition 

 less satisfactorily than the returns for other mother tongues. A part- 

 how large a part there is no means of judging — of those whose ancestral 

 language is Hebrew doubtless have reported German, English, Polish, 

 or other mother tongues. Of the total number of Yiddish-speaking 

 people 838,193 come from Russia, 144,484 from Austria-Hungary, 41,342 

 from Roumania, 14,409 from the United Kingdom and 7,910 from 

 German3^ 



The paper was discussed bj'^ Messrs. Stetson, Hough, and Farquhar 

 and yirs. James. 



Daniel Folkmar, Secretary. 



