Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-15
THE EMIGRATION MOTEMEMT.

IHE EMA6HA1LON MOPEMEMT.
Letters received at the Office of the State
board of immigration from Germany, with
in the past fortnight, convey the impression
that there is, throughout that entire country,
more general disposition to emigrate than
has been manifested hitherto for number
of years, and the class of people who may
be expected to leave there,as soon as they can
close up their business and arrange for their
departers,are mainly the tenants on the large
landed estates.
The same causes which make agriculture
Improbable in England are operative in
Germany, and to these is added serious ap-
prehensions that another war is of likely &C.
currence, to be attended with the usual So
Ola! disturbances and followed by
Increased taxation. As the for
tunes of the small shop keepers
in the villages are intimately dependent up
on the prosperity of agriculturists, they are
also considering the propriety of emigrat-
ing. In Denmark, Sweden and Norway,
general business stagnation,' with little or
no prospect of improvement, is complained
of and correspondents from those countries
intimate that an unprecedently large emigra
ton mag also be expected from that quarter
during the next few years.
In England the emigration fever is rapid
~ increasing and hardly mail arrives that
does not bring batch of letters making
inquiries about Minnesota and the North
west. The middle and lower classes of the
English people are rapidly acquiring more
correct information concerning America, a
result duo in great measure
to the labors of Canadian emigration agents.
These have not been able to convince the
people that, while the Western American
States and Territories are but bowling will
dernesses, a paradisical retreat embracing
several million square miles exists just west
of Manitoba. They naturally wonder why
the Americans did not discover and OCCUPY
this elysium, lying right at their doors, and,
their curiosity being aroused, they. have
taken more pains to inform themselves
about America. Unlike Africa, Australia
and New Zealand, America offers them a
home among civilized people, but brief
journey distant from their native country,
and in possession of rapid mail and tele-
graphic communication Herewith. While
many of them will be led
by patriotic impulses to go into
the western Canadian provinces, many others
will find homes for themselves in our western
States.
From Ireland, too, there is prospect OF
greatly increased emigration, nearly all of
which will find it's way to the United States,
and it is said that it will comprise large
proportion of persons of means, who will be
valuable acquisitions personally, aud because
of the money they will be able to expend in
developing the country. The letters of Hon.
Finley Dan, of London, published in several
English pape S, and copied into Irish papers,
have contributed very considerably to bring
ing Minnesota into notice in Great Britain
and Ireland, and many of the writer's who
apply for information to the secretary of the
Board of immigration state that they have
been prompted to do SO by reading
these letters. MIR. Dun travelled over this
State last fall in company with the commit
tee of the British parliamentary commits
sion and several of his communications
were written while here. The people of
Minnesota may congratulate themselves
that, from combination of causes which
have been in operation for several months
past, Minnesota is very widely and generally
advertised, and is likely to get her full
share of the immigration which is now
beginning to flow from Europe to Amer
ica