The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-07-08


Falling of, up to present date for the year
1901. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. %, 745
We find at the same time in the Boston pa
pers the following statement:
EMeRASTs AT BosToN.-During the six months
ending July lst, l5,34s emigrants arrived at Bos-
ton from foreign ports, being 1856 less than the
number which arrived during the same time last
year.
We have heretofore, in reply TO the ATLAS
cited the Philadel phia correspondence of New
York free-trade print alleging that the arrivals
of foreigners at that port had diminished in
the same manner. We have not at hand. how
ever, the means of detailed comparison. But
the foregoing statements establish sufficiently
the only point which we are solicitous to call
attention to-that the decrease in the mporta-
ton of labor is not local only nor fortuitous,
but the result of some law, general in its opera
ton. We invite those who regard foreign
trade as alone especially worthy of legislative
encouragement-who seem TO find it difficult
10 apprehend that bushel of wheat can really
be sold unless the transfer take place at some
point ON the other side of the ocean-who ac-
cordingly see an obvious extension of the mar
ket for our breadstufis so long as an uneasy for
eigner stays in Ireland or in Germany TO eat
them, but can perceive none when he comes
over the water to our own gral-fields for the
purpose Of obtaining the power 10 eat more--to
consider what this law may be.
For the present we content ourselves with
asking the reader TO indulge in those profitable
reflections upon the effect of a decline Of some
twenty-six thousand in the number of persons
arriving at but two ports in six months which are
suggested by the following calculations, publish
ed in the Albany illus, some three weeks since.
They are those of a correspondent of that paper
who aimed to present the subject of immigration
in a single Aspects relation to the industrial
interests and labor-capital of the country:
''By reference to returns made to Congress since
1920 il appears that three fths of all the arrivals
among cmigrants arc males and that a ma ority
Of the whole arc adults.
"Now, if VIC suppose three fourths only of the
males employed, for $50 days in the year, at an
average of rs cents per day; and one half only of
the females get employment 40 weeks out Of the
81, at an average rate, say of 81 per week; VIC
have ss ,2ss 1872 81 added to the labor-cspitsl Of
our country (from 1920 to ls4s inclusive,) mainly
by the labor Of the hard working Colt-thc~untain-
ably ferocious Irish, M Sir Robert Peel in Para-
mont once characterized this clsss.
"Of this sum, Massachusetts, received, as her
share, during this period (adding q per cent. int
s7,4l9 ,334 IS cts.
"The amount of this labor in Massachusetts from
1920 to 1880, only S437 $50 90; while from
1910 to ls4s, (only years) it roso high as
1886, 100 co. leaving for the intermediate de
cade, 81 1885 rs cents. These sums show the
relative increase of this kind of wealth since
1920"
But for our promise Of reserve, we should ask
special attention TO the fact that in the ten years
Of free-trad from $40 to 1890, according to this
writer, Massachusetts, gained less than one -thir-
teenth as much of additonal4abor capital as she
did in the eight years of protection, from 1910 TO
lS4S. II 1T be said that two years of the latter
period fall within the range Of the free trade
policy Of 1876, we answer that two years of