The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-05-05
McGREGOR, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1858.
Emigration.

Emigration.
1t is common to speak lightly Of Euro
pean emigrants, and yet every neighbor-
hood in the west is bidding through its
jurnals for this class Of settlers-every
Legislative body constructs its laws
with view to favor them. 10 show
the value to the United States of its for
eign human export, we publish the fol-
lowing extracts. They are taken from
report by s. P. Dinsmore. Esq, to
the N Y. Geographical Society at re-
cent meeting in which Political statis-
tics were discussed:
"In the State of Massachusetts, for
instance, which is not politically re-
markable for the supremacy of the for
eign population, the tables willsshuw~s
number of births Of foreign parentage
in excess Of those of native parentage.-
In 1854, of $4,000 born in that State.
16,47O were of American parentage,
while some $4,000 were of foreign par
entage. But the per centage of increase
of births from foreign parentage was
twice that from native parentage.-
Probably the census of 1860 will show,
if not an excess, an equal number of in
habitants fore ign born and of foreign
parentage-as compared with the inhab.
itants of native parentsge. tits consol-
ing to remember, however, as lively
political statistician has suggested, that
all these children of foreign birth will
probably be found, twenty years hence,
Dragging of Plymouth Rock and of the
Saxon blood that flows in their Celtic
veins.
+ = + 4
1t is interesting to compare the re-
suits Of population in this country, as
now exhibited in our census tables, with
the results which would have been
had there been no foreign immigra-
ton.
In 1890. the population of the United
States, including whites and free color
ed persons, was 2,231,93O. Now the
careful calculation Of the table shows
that the annual in crease of population by
excess of birts over deaths is 1888 per
cent. { 1873 in 10000 in this country
the largest increase of any country in
the world, the like increase in England
and Wrles being l25, (l25 in 10, ZOO, }
in France "A, in Russia "a, in Prussia
III, in Holland 1-23, in Belgium .6l,
in Portugal .72, in Saxony 1.O8.
AT this rate of increase of population,
augmented by the excess Of births over
deaths alone, we find availing ourselves
of the elaborate tables of Louis Shode,
Esq, that we should have had in this
country in 1850, 1856, 423 inhabitants,
instead of 1887. I3-a difference of
l2,432.150. So that. while in the in
crease of population in this country
1890 the elements of excess of births
over deaths have given but 1898, ,493
of population, the increase by and
through immigration has given over
twelve millions-the proportion being
of natural increase to of increas
through importation of population.
If we may measure the value of in
habitants to state by the worth Of the
monuments which industry leaves on
the face of the earth, having meanwhile
taken from the earth it's daily food, we
may reckon from these data that immi-
grafton has given to us three fourths of
the farm Improvements, three -fourths
of the cities and towns built, three
fourths of railroad constructed through
out the length and breadth of the
land.
And it will not be forgotten that the
kind of population which immigration
has brought us has been mainly of the
proletary or productive class. is the
foreigners who have done the work.
The natives, born on the soil, have con-
sidered themselves the class born to
consume the fruits of the soil. Com
pute, for instance, the actual creating
force of the New England, and other
native emigration to the West, and omit
the consideration of its capacity in Or
ganizing labor, and l think we shall find
that the average amount of real produc.
tive toll of each native born western
man, after deducting from his time what
the exigencies of horse racing, whisky
drinking. attending agricultural fairs and
speculating in town lots have required
Of him-his actual productive toll has
not exceeded six hours in each week.
But the foreign emigrant has had no
such license granted to him. The ne
cessi!ies Of his daily life have required
an aggregate of fifty hours labor per
week, spent in adorning and enriching
the earth, and in raising from its bosom
the fruits to supply the consumption of
the people.
If We may compute the worth of
each immigrant and descendant of i'm
migrants, on the valuation of slave
labor-thatis is, counting Caucasian blood
as worth as much as E.hiopic blood,
ani assuming the value of each woman
and child at $4,000 four hundred dol
lars, the aggregate cash value of the
immigration since 1890, and it's fruits
will be found to be $4,972, $50, 900,
nearly FIVE thousand millions of dollars
"a sum exceeding half of the great
debt, which, in fashions of lavish ex-
penditure, Great Britain has incurred
in obtaining the empire and the wealth
of half tho world. ~
Another fact, which should not so
long have escaped the attention and
comment Of commercial statistics, is
the enormous amount Of coin which
has been brought t. this country by for
eign immigrants. A letter was here
read from John A. kannedy, Esq, Su-