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Show Our ntris. ' One finds from census bulletin VKI that there are 17,000,000 inm twenty. ooo years olcLamlotcr In this country. They would Ml be oters In the coming presidential election If nil of them vero cltlicns, but neurly n million of them limonot yet been naturallted, so Hint thcro will bo something mora than 10,-000,000 10,-000,000 men who cnnoto for prraldcut this fall If they want to. It Is Interesting to know that no haro 1 000,000 fighting men In Una fortunate country that Is to sny, 13,000,000 men aged from eighteen to fort) -fin.. Wo do not count In tills calculation tho hundreds hun-dreds of thonsanda of plucky old fellows fel-lows above forty fit e who would bo sore to bo In It If war shonld cortio. V liavo, howccr, 4,000,000 moro Toters than fighters, It is rather startling to find that In firo states of tho Union more than half tho voters aro foreign born. North Dakota Da-kota contains tho most of these, 1)1 89 per cent, of her n.alo population beyond thoagoof twenty-ono being foreigners. lieu Y o ndd to this tho fact that a majority ma-jority of thoso do not poMc n good working knowledge of tho Kngllfih Ian guago, tho caw will bo luitter under-understood. under-understood. Manifestly state with n population llLe this should bend nil their endoaora to strengthening and upholding uphold-ing everywhere public schools in which Digllsh, and English alone, Is tanght. Moro than a fonrth of our oters wcro born nbroad. That wo haro been nUo to naalmil-ito all this heterogeneous mass with no moro t&ublo than wo havohad li tho proudest trlbuto that can be offered to Republican Instltti-tloni. Instltti-tloni. Nativity statistica of tho otlug Ipulation show that our awarms of lm lulgranta dooln tno directions. Ily far tho largest number go to thu northwest. north-west. But thcro it n secondary movement move-ment toward tho largo cities of tho cult. Theso tuo tlio vacant land of tho wost, tho groat city of tho east swallow tho immlgrnnt. It is hard to tell why so few foreigners go couth. Evon in Kentucky, on tho borders of tho north and west, only S per cent, oCJtbo voters aro fort Ign bom. Of negro voters there aro in round numUra 1,800,000. Pennsylvania alone has SS.000, enough to hold tho balnuco of political power In any election. |
