Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-24
The New Tide Cf immigration.

Emigration from Europe to the
y nited states Is assuming 2inen-
sions which are we'll calculated to
startle public opinion. The statisti-
cal returns of the first six months of
the year indicate that the number of
enigrants landing in the port of
/ New ork viii this ear be consider
ably larger than it was last year, and
that il may reach the highest figure
that has ever been reached, which
was IN 1854, when no less that GI9,-
223 persons arrived. In the other
ports of the Atlantic, the increase
over any previous year will be much
greater Formerly nearly all the
immigrants from the Old Wor.,.
| landed in New ! oTk now large
numbers, especially of Germans, are
going directly 10 Baltimore, Charles
/ ton, NeW-orieanS, and other cities.
and tn, rivals effort " hich are now
! being made by 50 many societies.
. both ia the South and the North, will
Dut only tend 10 increase emigration
To the ports outside of New York,
! bat they will in general stimulate
the eagerness ssf + uropeans 20 come
over Ia this country. The great adj
Vuntages which honest land COM
panies can. in particular, offer to Eu-
ropeaR peasants encourage the emf
grafton of entire or large portions Of
communities, and viii for a long
time to come keep the current of
Europe emigration unyyeaEened.
Europe, which, from 1920 10 1850,
sent Us about five millions of emf
grants may be expected 10 do at
least as much during the coming
forty years.
While this prospect alone would
furnish 10 the national economists
the statesmen and the patriots. a
very serious subject for their specula-
tions upon the future, an entirely
new tide of immi igration has sci in,
which is not only certain To equal
the European immigration in mum
Der and importance, but will proba-
bly,, exceed il. We refer to the rapid
increase Of the immigration of Chi
nese into our Pacific States, the be-
ginning Of the japanese emigration,
and, IN general, to the movement OF
the East a Asiatics toward our couu-
try. In China the masses of the
people, at least in some Of the prov
inces, have begun TO be, seized with
the desire to emiPrate. Now, let il
be taken into consideration that Chi
na proper is one Of the most denselv
peopled countries of the world that
the masses of the people are poor
poorer than the Irish and the Ger
man poor; that they are not averse 30
emigration, and that thousands of
reports have been received IN China
from the pioneers of their race in
California and other A merican States
that Il maj ket Tor labor has been
found there more lucrative and in
vitlng than Of which the lower elias
ses of the Chinese people have thus
far been able to avail themselves
The population CT China is four hun
dred and seventy-seven millions of
people, and China, Japan, and In
dia together represent an aggregate
population OF about seven hundred
millions of people. If these coun-
tries should ever be seized with an
emigration fever as strong as the
one which has prevailed for many
years in Germany and Ireland, the
result would be that during the for
ty years from 1870 to 1910, no less
than twenty-one millions of East
AsiaticS would come to this country.