The daily gazette., 1879-09-23
SECOND EDITION
The Coming Influx OF Foreixnerr.


From the Chicago Inter- Ocean.
Those who have watched the reports
OF the Bureau of Statistics at Washing
ton have noticed the very significant
change in the current of foreign imml-
grafton which has taken place within
the year past. Every successive report
has told Of swelling numbers, as COM
pared with the same time twelve months
before Jusr now there are many indi-
cations that we are on the eve of such
thronging influx from abroad as will
greatly exceed every other experience
of the kind IN our history.
1t Is the prospective besides the pres
eat outlook regarding industrial affairs
throughout Great B.itian which IL CIV
ing force and volume to this outward
now OF population, money, and capital.
England's manufacturing system, when
IN full operation, provides employment
and subsistence for the bulk of the mass
OF her wage laborers. So vast Is the pro-
auction that an immense expectation is
indispensable to keep the various estab-
iishments fairly active or running at any
profit. But since 1873 the exports have
been steadily declining, prices have been
falling, wages have been suffcriue fire.
quent reductions, until many mills, fac
tories, shops, and mines have been COM
PEELED to close their doors; many have
been driven into bankruptcy or into
composition with the creditors; many
have runton shorttime, been vexed with
strikes or lockouts, aud have been heavy
losers; and very few comparatively have
been carried on with any remuneration
for the capital invested In consequence,
there has been for years a species of in
dustrlal dis sorganizatlon, accompanied
an extraordinary aggregate of idleness
among workmen, with mpoverishment,
distress, increased pauperism, and y
scarcely endurable demand upon the
purse of charity.
SO remarkable a conjunction of circum-
stances has fixed the eyes of the world
upon this country, which has become
"the desire Of all nations" Thither
turn hopes of relief. The magnetism OF
our position is beginning to attract to
our shores many thousand of people
weary OF mbarrassments which grow
| heavier; rendered desperate by their
darkening prospects,, ana seeing no es-
cape from their thraldom except the
emigration to the great republic between
the oceans. Throngs of agriculturists
overjoyed with the expectation of ac-
| quiring in America farm in fee simple
at the cost of the annual rent they have
beeh paying at home, are preparing to
join the movement. Manufacturing
capitalists. worn out with their unavail.
| my sIruggieS TO prouuce ana OBTAIN mar
kets at profit, are making ready to
follow; and few have already come
bringing with them their entire outfit ol
men and machinery. Every passing
month adds to the volume of the inpour
stream. which is rising and spreading
with freshet-like impe tuosity.
Such mixture of powerful motives
never before guided foreign emigrant.
to the United States, nor has there evei
before been such variety in the classe,
of arrivals. Until now the new corners
with few exceptions, have been need,
day-laborers and mechanics, with scarce
ly any means Hereafter considerable
proportion will be men of property
bringing their capital, besides their ski
and experience. The countries the
. leave will suffer an irreparable loss, an
that loss will be our gam. AS the mo.
competent, industrial, frugal, and savin
of the laborers will be most able to tran.
fer their domicile to a land 5000 mile
distant. those persons will be most nu
merOusly represented In the arrivals
AMI thus we shall skim off the cream, 81
to speak, of the skilled population ofth
emigrant communities, and shal
strengthen our manufacturing position
while weakening theirs