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Portuguese 8,000 



Rumanians 12,000 



Russians 6,000 



Ruthenians (Little Russians) 20,000 



Slovaks 30.000 



Spanish 8,000 



Syrians 7,000 



Of these, it can be seen that the Latin and Slav races pre- 

 dominate. The Latin races amount to 258,000: being 230,000 

 Italians, 12,000 Rumanians and 16,000 Spanish and Portu- 

 guese. To them may be added 20,000 French from 

 the countries of Western Europe. The Slavic races fol- 

 low as a close second, amounting to 242,000: being 120,000 

 Poles, 40,000 Croatians and Slavonians, 30,000 Slovaks, 

 20,000 Ruthenians, 16,000 Bulgarians and Servians, 10,000 

 Bohemians and 6,000 Russians. The non-Latin, non-Slavic 

 races of Eastern Europe and adjacent Asia amount to 96,000 

 more ; being 40,000 Greeks, 25,000 Hungarians, 25,000 Lithu- 

 anians, 7,000 Syrians and 4,000 Armenians. All this repre- 

 sents the yearly flood now pouring in on us of the various 

 Christian nationalities from the parts of Europe little known 

 to us, except Italy. 



When we inspect this table of nationalities and races still 

 further, we shall find that the various peoples represented in it 

 have little or no affiliation with Protestantism, or any of the 

 dominant Protestant sects in the United States. They are 

 nearly all of them of the Catholic faith or of the elder schis- 

 matic churches, which have kept the Catholic faith almost in- 

 tact. A bare handful of the Armenians are Protestants ; the 

 great majority are of the Gregorian Armenian or schismatic 

 church, while quite a considerable minority are Catholics of 

 the Armenian Rite. The Bohemians are very largely Catholic ; 

 a minority are Free-Thinkers and some Protestants. The Bul- 

 garians and Servians are almost wholly of the Greek Ortho- 

 dox Church. The Croatians, Slavonians and Dalmatians are 

 almost wholly Catholic. The Greeks are nearly all of the 

 Greek orthodox faith. The Italians of the north of Italy are 

 all Catholics, except such few as are socialists or anarchists. 

 The Italians of the south of Italy are Catholics, with the excep- 

 tion of the socialists or anarchists, and a small minority are 

 Catholics of the Greek Rite. The Lithuanians are principally 

 Catholics, a very small minority being Free-Thinkers, with 



