The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-01-05
EMIGRATION.

! The Money Value Of the Immigrants
Registered at New York in Forty.
Years.
The statictics Of our annual foreign
| migration, most Of which reaches tic
country through thls port, are interest
, Ing. Since emigration was first attrac.
ted 10 our shores, . period Of forty Two
years. we have received us registered
cmigrants a total Of $50, ,+G6 Of all clas-
ses. To this steady influx Of labor tho
agricultural aud Industrial develope-
ment Of the country during the past
twenty years Is mainly attributable.
Computing the value Of each migrant
upon the basis Of slave labor, we find
by allowing each man to be worth just
what an able bodied field hand was be-
foro the war, say 81 900, their econ omic
value to the country to be Sc, $50, 81 600
two thirds Of those arriving being
able, bodied and industrious working
men. Allowing to the remainder II low
average valuation Of $500 each, we have
an aggregate of S4s2, ,O24, 600 making a
grand total Of SO, ,s32, $50 900 as the econ
omic value, expressed in dollars, of the
total emigration Of the United States.
Each immigrant brings to this country
more or less money, and property Of diff
ferent kinds, such as tools, instruments,
or something Of value. This Is especial
ly true Of the Germans, who average
some years quite large sufn-a. high in
1853, as $3lS gold /; but giving them an
average In the twenty years Of 500 each
and in reality II overruns this average
1T would amount to S53, ,625, 400
brought into the country by this ono
class. .r
The Irish do not average more than
one half Of the amount but this state
ment Is compiled from reports which
these people make themselves wheu
questioned as to how much money they
have about them: aud In many cases
these returns have been found to be as
much less than they really should be.
The tculations allow for very small
percentage of old aud infirm, who come
over with no Que to care for them.
These cases, however, are very few, from
the fact that there Is law existing which
| obliges carriers Of passengers to re-
turn all persona who may become on tho
State at any time within two years after
they are landed here. said passengers to-
DO carried free Of cost TO state or passen-
ger and this law IL very strictly cnfor-
ced. These figures are only for tho port
Of New York; and, as there IL tax OF
$3.50 per head levied on oil emigrants
arriving here, a revenue Is collected for
the hospital and landing cepots the pay
ment Of clerks and other necessary ex-
penses pertaining to SO large business,
which makes these institutions very
nearly self-sustaining. Boston aud Phil
adelphis receive but few migrants, and
the other cities none Mt all, or nearly
none. The transportion of cmiSrants
was done. few years since, entirely in
sailing vessels, and In American bot
toms; but since, the decay Of our ship
ping interest the business has been trans
fcrred, In great measure, to the English
steamers, aud only once in great while
DO we see the arrival Of al American
sailing ship In this trade We have
only three regular lines running vessels
In the business, where, few years since,
We had six or seven lines, having arri-
walls three or four times each month
but We lost the business during tho war
and It will be long time before we re.
gainit, II we ever do. Last year we re-
ceived total Of 25s. $50 immigrants, and
i'm the ten months and . half OF this
wear that have nasscd va hava rcceivpd
lSs ,5ll, Notwithstanding the Continent
tai war.
Men are like wagons they rattle