Photographs trom Frederic C. Howe 



A RUSSIAN VEGETARIAN 



A BAVARIAN PEASANT 



behind. It is remarkable that so small an 

 island — smaller, indeed, than the State 

 of Maine — could in a century and a half 

 send us enough people to duplicate the 

 present population of eleven of our States 

 having- an aggregate area as large as the 

 United Kingdom. France, Germany, and 

 Austria-I Iungary together. 



Austria-Hungary stands next on the 

 list of contributors to the immigrant 

 stream that has flowed from Europe to 

 America. Although Austro-Hungarians 

 beg l to immigrate in considerable num- 

 bers only when the arrivals from western 



Europe had begun to fall off, sufficient 

 have come from the dual monarchy to 

 populate the State of Texas to its present 

 density. Italy has sent us enough of her 

 people to duplicate the population of 

 Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Ne- 

 vada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New 

 Mexico, while England's and Scotland's 

 contribution, 3,889,000 in all, together 

 with Ireland's 4,500,000, gives a total of 

 8.389.000, or plenty to populate all of the 

 States lying west of Texas and the Da- 

 kotas. The Russians who have come to 

 our shores number 3,419,000. They could 



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