SEEK HOMES WITH US

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 31, 16 April 1907, Page 6

SEEK HOMES WITH US

Good Timci in the United States Swtlls Tide ef Immigration, v , —; , \ t Fatal* of latere** Br*ug<hf Oat by ~ Stfttifltlca - N«tlonalttie« TbJut - Contribute to th« &▼•»- Flowing Stream. Immigration has become very heavy as a consequence of the good times enjoyed by the United State? since 1898, but it continues to be of about the same character which it had when the movement of population across the Atlantic was comparatively small. There is no sign that the old conditions existing when most of the immigrants came from Germany, the British Isles, and Sweden and Norway will ever be restored, states the Cleveland Leader. In the year ending June 30, about 648,700 entered the country. Nearly all of this multitude were from Europe, the rest being natives of Asia, mainly Japan and Turkey, the West Indies, Canada, and other countries, in various parts of the world. The immigrants from Europe constituted more than 05 per cent, of the total. Twenty years ago the Europeans would have been chiefly natives of the Britsh Isles, the German empire. and the Scandinavian peninsula. Those countries would have furnished probably 75 per cent, of the whole number. Italy, Austria and Russia were then just beginning to make large contributions to the population of the United States. Now 171,989 of the European immigrants who landed in the fiscal year are credited to the Austro-Hun-garian empire. No fewer than 178,375 came from Italy. Over 107,000 were natives of the Russian empire. The total for these three countries was about 457,000. Only 191,000 remained for the rest of the world, including the sources of nearly all of the immigration received down to 1880. The British Isles sent less than 50,000 immigrants. Germany contributed about 28,000. Sweden and Norway gave the American republic 48,000 of their people, in round figures. Little Greece sent over 1,000 emigrants in the single month of May, or more than France, Holland, Belgium and Spain taken together. It is not long since a Greek was a curiosity, even in the largest cities of the United States. These changes are making the American nation more than «ver a condensation or amalgamation of the civilised world. The elements of the population which were formerly in almost exclusive possession- of this country are receiving comparatively few accessions from Europe, while the large additions made to the American nation are from parts of the old world which have been least adequately represented in the great composite which is the chief hope of human progress.

It is a part of the general equalizing procesa going- on all over the world. The countries which aro most progressive nre leading others upward, and tho?e which are moist •backward are stripling toward better conditions than they have known in the past. They are sending many of their moat enterprising song and daughters to distant landa, and the. currents of migration and commerce alike are doing a vast work for the development of civilization and the welfare of the human racfc