The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-05

liberal institutions were now to them promise
| of q life of freedom and Advancement They
came in hundreds and in thousands, settled in
various profitable pursuits. sent back tor their
friends ana kindred, and while they all pros
pered they enriched the country and increased
| it's material welfare, national prosperity and
| international greatness.
| From this time forth German immigration
| assumed proportions never dreamed OF in for
mer wears. The same results followed 1t as
were experienced after the increased immigra-
ton n 1882, only IN much gre later ratio. The
growth OF cities in the West was more rapid,
the Weld of the soil more bountIful and furnish
| ing q lare or volume OF export. Tho demand Tor
| labor increased in like proportion. and this
AGAIN. be ides the other causes stated above,
| added to the incentives for immigration. The
| intellectual field vas not forgotten and where
| in the sixteen years before one German peri
odcal had made it's appearance now ten started
into life, most, though not al, OF which have
| succeeded in maintaining. themselves. The
advantages Of the country for tree development,
fer the SUCCESS OF sll. as rule, who deserve
success and arc resolved to earn 1t. we're more
and more made known, not by theoretical ar-
eument allowing Of contradiction, but by the
potent fact Of living examples And as in the
social scale OF progress each achieved effect
thus the causes and the Incentives for I'm nj
grafton fram Germany were multiplied from
Hence, to-day We may safely assume tho en-
fire German population in tho country, count
ing IN those Of German descent in the first
generation and their offspring, still retaining
tho IauQusgo and habits OF their parents. Mt
from 10 100000 to 12e00 900 with voting
mower OF perhaps over 000,00 There is New
York city' with more German inhabitants than
any city In Germany, except Vicnna AMI Ber-
Inn; there aro probably not four cities IN the
fatnorland that have a larger German popula-
tlon than Philadelphia, and we havo more
oitios in this country containing over ~ OUO
German residents than perhaps tho whole OF
the old capitals and the centres OF trans.o oceanic
commerce. There are about as many political
journals published In the Gei man language;
daily and weekly, In this country as in all Ger
many, and twice ss many OF these papers here
have circulation OF 10000 and over as In the
old country. .--.-
And the cry is still they come. Last year
tho immigration q, this port was isi wy OF tne
thirds OF the whole. Thero was also landed
SS62 Swiss. OF whom over two-thlrds were from
tho German cantous OF Switzerland and 2S11
nom France. OF which number not less than
halt we're from Asace and Lorraine, or virLu-
ally Germans. Such Q yearly increase by Inn.
migration, added to the natural increase OF
births over deaths among the Germans already
resident here, will soon change their relative
proportion to the whole population, which is
now about one-tourth. With the acknowledged
decrease OF tho fecundity In the native Ameri-
can stock, and the dimlnution in tho immigra-
tinn OF other natlonallttea, as shown by the
statistios OF past years, the ratio OF the Ger
mans ip this couutry to the rest OF the inhabi
tants must, in the course Of not many years TO
come, rise from one-four;h to third, or even
higher. And not the Germans alone. but the
whole country from the Penobscot to the Rio
Grande, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in the
future as it has in tho past, will reap the Itch
harvest. - 80.
1.-THE RELATIONS OF THE GERMANS 10 THE
ooNNERcE, FINANCES, INDUSTRY, SOCIETY AND
POLITICS oF THE COUNTRY.
-rA~-~.,.a->..AA.,aAnai influx Of inanaiSrants,
continued now ior nearly fOrry years has not
been without vast influence upon the material
has already been partially shown, and it is un-
doubtedly evident to all that this influence
mr,st have extended from yoes-to- ,eur fsosa-
the mo nIrrow fields which fell 1t first to
other and wider branches, touchin at iast the
whole composition OF our society and the very
frue ItB not necersary to go into any minor
details to show 1t. Every attentive business
man koows it TO be so and every wide-awaks
No one can or will deny that among the
MANY causes which have aided in advancing
the inters: ate and international commerce OK
the country, the rapid and unparalleled de-
yelopment OF the agricultural resources OF the
West was ono Of the most potent. This could
only have been brought abont, as 1t actually
was. by an unprecedented rapidity in the in
crease OF population, and this rapidlty OF In.
crease was again the cause OF of;immiRration, OF
which the Germans, for the last forty years,
formed about one-half Commerce goes only
where an exchange OF commodities Is possible,
where there is something 10 buy or sell, or
both. It creates nothing; it merely transports
what is already produced to other places where
il is nee6ed-aud exchanges u for what 1t finds
of production-the result OF the labor Of others
TO supply this want else where. Increasing
production is therefore naturally followed by
an increase OF exchanges and the demand for
an increase Of facilities for transportation, and
these again, in various ways, stimulate pro-
duction.
Here we have in nutshell and as plain as it
can be made the influence Of the German inn
migration upon the astounding increase OF our
commerce. Without their aid the capacities
for production OF the West would not have
been developed to the same degree and In the
same ratio otincrease as they have been. Hence
commerce would have advsnced with slower
PAGES, and our means OF transportation would
not have been extended with such gigantlc
strides.
The manufacturing industry Of the country
owes a similar debt to the German immigra-
ton, partly for the same reasons as commerce
and railroads, and partly on account OF the
vast amount OF skilled and artistic labor intro
duced BY it into the country and added TO the
enterprise and skill already domiciled here
and 40 characteristic OF America. More peo-
pie consume more OF manufactures tn IN less
number, and hence by increasin the popula-
tion they aided in furnishing q market to the
manufacturer on q larger scale, and by increas-
ing production they helped to increase the
purchasing power Of the people, thus n both
ways contributing their share to the increase
OF the national wealth. And as this national
wealth finds it's exponent in dolars and cents,
BY which it is measured, and as the Imam
cial system OF country is at once the
regulator Of this national wealth and also rest
ing on its healthtulness and security, and as
these are best shown by constant, regular,
legitimate expansion OF commerce ana manu-
factures, it follows that the German lmmiera-
tlon had no mean share, along with that fr.m
Ireland and other countries. ana win lhe
Americans proper, in influencing the upward
course Of the general prosperity OF lhe coan
try, go much the woDdor OF the age.
Going somewhat into details, it may be
stated that there is no branch Of commerce or
manufacture in the United States, excepting,
perha,s, some portions of New England, IN
which the Germans 10 not share proportion
ately with other nationallties. In every city IN
the country they form large and respected
integral part of tho mercantile and manufac-
turing community. lately published llst oi
the in. ernal revenue assessors for the district
of St. LOUIS shows that OF tho money value OF