Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-06
rar srAMrnpE 70 AMERICA.

Those who have been noting The never
csasing stream OF foreign Immigration
to this country this Spring, are begin
ming to wonder what the end Will be.
IL 10 q remarkable spectacle. Is onr
America 10 become the refuge for all the
world, Every month there are sdded
TO our population enough OF foreigners
to populate a great city. The great
West is becoming in It's population
foreign land. Just now the emigra'
ton from Germany is approaching
the proportions OF a stampede
"rhe steamships leaving German
d rts," saws an exchange, ARE I'M
able to take the passengers offering
Emigrants are securing passage far in
advance and are waiting by thousands
their turn. The pressure is said to be
so great that steamships Of larger cspaci.
~ are being built to meet the emergency
and to provide adequate transportation
in the future, under the impression that
the volume OF emigration for several
wears to come will increase rather than
decline. The reasons for this enormous
emigration are yariously given by the
agents of the steamship lines and by
the emigrants themselves. hut are all
c,geu., aud indicate very clearly the
prevailing distress among the agflcul'
tural and art san classes oil Ger
many and the motives melting them to
leave their native land. Among these
are the heavy increase OF taxes since the
Frauco-German war, the low rate oil
wages. the low price of farm products,
the stagnation OF trade, the military
canscription, and the fear, whether well
founded or not, that Germany will be
plunged before long into new foreign
war. 1t is especially noteworthy that in
the class of emigrants now arriving
very few among them are paupers, and
that large proportion OF them are men
with families, who finding the outlook al
home growing more and more dreary
aud seeing nothing before their chill
dren but life OF poverty, have sold
their little POSSESSIONS, and with the
money they fetched hoped to do bette
in the United States. Tae average
amount of money brought by these i'm
migrants is estimated by the German
Society OF New York at twenty dollar
per head, including children. Other
put the average at considerably highe
figures. One banking house in New
York, which cashss large number o
immigrants drafts, stated few days az
that there had been large incrC ase o
lite in that line OF their business
"On referring to their books says tn
reporter OF the New York BUiictth
charged with the investigation o
the suLjsC,, "the cashier said that there
had been 1 large incresss in that line .
their business, aud that the number o
Swetes was more than proportiOnateI!
large. From averages on over fifty pay
mprts within ten days it was fonnd tina
the averege amount OF drafts was: FO
Germans, Sl5j; for Swedes, $40; fol
Swiss the average in March was S2ll PEE
head. Taking several weeks for Swiss
and the average in lC7 cases, however
was bat sS6. 1t may thus be seen tina
500 would be fair figure for those who
bring drafts, but it is fair to presume
that there is a great deal OF coin brough
on the persons of immigrants and tina
these would counterbalance the impe'
cunious." These German immigrants
are an acquisition in many respects tc
DO desired. They bring with them the
habits of patient toll and become the
most thrifty and substantial part o.
every community,