The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-18
The Enormous Emigration from Europe.

Il AhS HsuEope.
During the first five months of this year
lG2, l0S Immigrants were landed at Castle Gar
den. The corresponding period of last yeal
was remarkable tor the activity of iWmigra
ton, but the arrivals for 1881 exceed those oil
1880 by 4G,172. They have steadily increased
month by month, and in May alone they were
much more than half the total number for the
first five months of last year.
! How long this unparalleled immigration
Will continue it Is, of course, impossible &c
estimate. The European social conditions
which produce it are not, however, likely to be
soon improved, and we may reasonably expect
that during every spring and summer fol
many years to come the arrivals of new set
tiers from abroad will be more numerous than
1 in the past Every immigrant successfully
established here draws many more to ON
shores. Information OF his prosperity usual
", OF course, much exaggerated, crosses the
Atlantic and reaches the community whence
he came, and serves as stimulus to emigra
ton.
The great majority of the Germans, espec
tally who have come over here within the last
twenty five years have vastly improved their
condition. There is no question about that.
They have not only escaped the painful exact
ions of militarism, but they have also gained
in material comfort, and many Of them have
possessed themselves of wealth. What they
have done has been told to their townspeople
IN Germany, and therefore, as soon as this
country began to recover from the prostration
OF business, desire for immediate emigration
pcrvaded Germany. Three times as many
Germans came over in 1880 as IN 1877, for in
stance, and the number landed IN 1873 was
greater than that IN 1875 by over one hundred
thousand.
We see from these figures that the emIgra
ton was promptly affected by the business
condition of this country. When the times
were bad it fell off greatly, but as they i'm
proved again 1t again became active. This is
evidence that the desire to seek homes in the
republic is always strong among the Germans
but that they prudently choose favorable
time for making their start in the New World
A very great part of them come hither with
sufficient capital to establish themselves, and
therefore they are more cautious than the I'm.
migrants of some other countries, who usual.
lily transfer merely their muscular strength.
They take advice, and cross the ocean with a
definite object, and when they think they can
best use their capital. The German authori-
ties may try to check them by stories OF proba-
bic misfortune in the United States. but they
rely instead on the reports they get from their
friends already here.
So long, therefore, as our crops continue to
be good, and our business to be active and
prosperous, we are likely to see steadily in
creasing stream or German immigration,
which now Is the heaviest that pours into the
country The empire Bismarck has CONSOLE
dated may be strong, and it may be dominant
in Europe; but the German people are neither
happy or prosperous, If we take the classes
dependent upon labor, and they were never so
anxious as now to get away from their cOun
TRY.
The depression of the English agricultural
interests is something from which plainly
there can be no recovery. The farmers cannot
withstand American competition. Qhe tilling
Of the soil IN England prows less and less
profitable and there is always uncertainty con
corning the crops. A bad season affects the
whole Of the comparatively small region
which the farmers cultivate, whereas here our
acreage Is SO vast, and the conditions of eli
mate are so various, that general disaster toI
the crops is now next to impossible. Every
year must be good average year, taking the
country as whole. English immigration,
now extensive, is likely, therefore, to CONTINUED
to increase while prosperity reigns IN the
United States.
The Scandinavian countries are now send
ing Us from fifty thousand to ahundred thous
and immigrants yearly. The causes which
induce them to cross the ocean are permanent.
They inhablt regions where life Is necessarily
hard, and they long for a more genial climate
and richer soil. The facilities for their I'M
migration have greatly improved of late years,
and the enthusiasm by which il has been dis
tinguished was neverstronger than now. TheyI
must continue to come in vast numbers. Irish
immigration has also much to encourage it, |
though 1t 10 longer is the greatest which we
receive.
There is every reason, therefore, to expect
that even the enormous number Of arrivals for
the first five months OF this year will be eX
ceeded next year, and the total number for the
decade upon which we have entered will be
double that for the period between 1870 and
1880. That is, it is not improbable that dur
ing the next ten years between tour and five
millions of immigrants will be landed on our
shores, or about half as many as we received
during the whole sixty years from 1920 to-
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