DRIVEN TO THE NEW WORLD
The uninterrupted stream of immigration which flows into New York is one of the most significant facts of our time. The exodus is this year attaining unprecedented proportions. Most of the emigrants come from Germany, driven out of the Fatherland, they say, by “ poverty, military service, and excessive taxes;” while some who come from Posen say that they are flying from persecutipn. Three thousand three hundred Irish have landed at New York since the month of June began, and, says the Daily News correspondent, “ there is a constantly . increasing proportion of skilled artisans and families -with considerable sums of money, who say they have been .obliged to leave Ireland on account of the Land League. They go directly west to Colorado and Nebraska, where they buy homesteads of uncultivated land.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2614, 6 August 1881, Page 2
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135DRIVEN TO THE NEW WORLD South Canterbury Times, Issue 2614, 6 August 1881, Page 2
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