Nowhere is discrimination based on
knowledge more necessary than in dealing with this Slavic race division.
First let us learn who the Slavs are. The following table shows this,
and also how many of them entered our ports in 1905:
Poles 102,437 Servians, Bulgarians, and
Slovaks 52,368 Montenegrins 5,823
Croatians and Slovenians 35,104 Dalmatians, Bosnians, and
Lithuanians 18,604 Herzegovinians 2,639
Ruthenians 14,473 Bohemians and Moravians 11,757
Roumanians 7,818 Russians proper 3,746
Magyars 46,030 Russian Jews[61] 92,388
[Sidenote: A Large Element in Europe]
The Slavs proper number about 125,000,000, or more than one twelfth of
the total population of the world. They have been concentrated, until
the recent migration began, in the eastern and larger part of Europe.
They make up the bulk of Russia, the great Slav power (numbering about
70,000,000), and of the Balkan States, and form nearly half of the
population of Austria-Hungary. The various Slavic languages and dialects
are closely related but differ as do German and Swedish, so that the
different races cannot understand each other.
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