The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-03
IMM1GRATIOS FACTS.

The worse the times in Europe the
larger the emigratian; the worse the
| times in America the smaller the emil
grafton. Emigrants prefer the United
| States to other countries equally fertile,
beautiful and easy of access, because the
soil is cheaper, labor is better remuner-
ated, aud the Government does not in
| terfere with them. A colonist must be
his own master in order to fully develop
his physical and mental resources, and
TO help in building up free common
wealth The Teutonic races represent
the successful principle of self-govern-
ment, and the Latin nations the unsuc-
cessful one of State dependence and
protection. Ii was from no within that
the emigrant avoided the Southern
States while they were cursed with
slavery; il was because they had no
civil liberty. Their natural advantages
are in many instances much superior to
those of the Northern States, and hence
forth II tide of emigration will flow in
to them. In 1856 every emigrant was
questioned as to the amount of money
he had with him, and the average of
IL, 342 new Corners was found to be S6S.
Us. But this was abandoned, as il was
found that the full amounts were not
truly stated. 1t was shown however.
that on an average they possessed
larger sum than is held by the localized
residents of any known community.
Ii is estimated that the German emf
grants alone brought into this country
an average of Sll.000,000. Each one
has clothing, tools and valuables also,
the value of which, with his cash capt.
tai, amounts TO $50 Ga low estimatc),
so, rs 100000 emigrants arrived in New
York in 1853, the national wealth was
augmented that year by S37, 300, 600.
An emigrant is worth just as much to
this country as it costs TO produce a ma
tive-born laborer of the same average
ability; but the net product of his labor,
by which the country of his adoption
grows and flourishes, varies according
To his intellectual capacity, hereditary
disposition and natural qualities. 1t is
calculated that an American farmer or
skilled laborer costs 81 800 for the first
fifteen years of his life, or until he be-
comes self-supporiing; and female
$3.50. One-fifth of the emigrants are
less than fifteen years old, but then there
are more men arriving than women, and
very many are of the higher order of
skilled labor, the education of whom
costs here five times 81, 800. Taking
them, however, TO be half male and
half female, each one viii be worth
81, l25 to this country, which it gains
free of expense. The number OF emf
grants who from May 9th, lS47, to Jan.
LIST, 1859, arrived at the port of New
York, was 403S,99l, which humber
represents capital value of 81 ,l25, and
Il cash value of $50, being 81 ,275 in all
per head, or a total increase to the ma
tional wealth of So, l49,7l3,525. Assum-
ing the immigration into the whole
Union to be 100000 souls per year, the
country gains $3.50. 100000 per year, or
more than $l,000,000 per day. Without
emigration the yearly increase of popu-
lation by excess of births over deaths
is about LBS, while the actual increase
from 1910 TO 1850, was 35.S7, and from
1850 TO 1860, was 1853 per cent. and
we must understand that n large pro-
portion of the births are children of
former emigrants. Had emigration
been stopped in 1925 there would have
been very little numerical change in the
population in 1865. Immigration, there
fore, has pushed the country forward
forty years in national progress, and
the increase in all the departments of
national progress has been in exact ra-
ito to the increase of population.