The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-28
miscellaneous.
IMMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA, AND
EMIGRATION FROM CANADA.

States during the past year was very
large, and this year it promises to be
still larger. The adjoining Republic ex.
tends from the tropical regions Of the
Gulf Of Mexico to the forty ninth para
lei. 1t embraces every variety of eli.
mate and production to be found within
the temperate zone. 1t already contains
upwards Of fifty millions Of people. A
large portion of the country is still unoc-
cupied. In the old slave States of the
South there are whole districts of i'm
mense extent which have never been
brought int cultivation. The population
of the United States may be increased
sixfold without the numbers being 80
increased as to make the agricultural
products Of the country inadequate to
the support Of the population. Almost
every country of Europe has contributed
it's quota Of settlers, and these are con.
stantly inviting over their Countrymen.
No other immigration agency can be
equally successful. Our age is an age Of
democracy, and the natural instincts Of
the race are everywhere asserting them
selves in favor of self.government. The
people Of Europe have long had mas
ters. They have for ages been disci-
plined to adjust their necks to the collar.
They have learned that on this side the
Atlantic no one is born to special polit-
ical privileges, that the human race is
not divided into rulers and ruled; that
instead ofthe best years Of mems lives
being spent in the camp and on the bat.
tle-feld, they are spent in the workshop
and on the farm in providing for them.
selves and their families. The contrast
between America and Europe in this
particular is very great. The Western
Continent is indeed a new world to the
people from Continental Europe. The
change is 80 great that it surpasses the
most sanguine expectations of those who
leave the Old World to begin a life of
freedom in the New. In recent mum.
ber Of the Christian Union the editor re-
fers to the present immigration as fol-.
lows:
"The tide of immigration whose un-
paralleled flow we have already noted is
beginning to excite apprehension in Eu-
rope, where the pressure of adverse DO.
litiCal and social conditions is felt all the
more keenly in contrast with the new
era of prosperity which seems to have
opened in this country, and OF which re-
ports are continually going back to the
O.d World. If the students of political
economy abroad are amazed at the reCu
peratiVe power of this country and at the
rapidity Of its recent development it is
very certain that the impression produc-
ed upon the middle and lower classes is
not less strong. In Germany especially
the outcoming throng Of emigrants is
awakening anxiety on the part of the
Government. 1t is said that in some
parts of SChleswig and PUsen whole vii.
lagos are being deserted, 80 great is the
desire to exchange the repressive and
hard farming life of Germany for the
more hopeful condition of the same vo.
cation in this country. The Bremen and
Hamburg steamers were never 80 crowd
ed with steerage passengers, nearly a
thousand landing Gently from q single
vessel; and it is now thought that with
the advent Of spring the German lines
will be unable to carry the travel which
will overflow into the Belgian, French
and German steamers. When one con-
siders the sound, sturdy habits which
these emigrants bring, as class, it is not
surprising that their home government
throws every obstacle in their way. II
is with the greatest difficulty that q
young German succeeds in getting out oi
Germany for the purpose of permanent
residence elsewhere, and the emigration
agents throughout the country are 80
closely watched that they are now said
to rather discourage than encourage emf.
grafton. In character, capital and CapaC
ity the immigration to this country was
never 80 good as to-day"
The last quarterly returns from the
Bureau Of Statistics at Washington gives
the number Of immigrants for eight
months ending with February last as S2,.
696 from Germany; 1928 from Canada
36,276 from England and Wales; 26, 16l
from Ireland; S,07S from Scotland; and
70,59O from all other countries. It will
be seen from these statistics that eleven
times as many leave Canada in proper
ton to population as leave Germany; and
that the emigration from Canada to the
United States in proportion to our popu.
lation is twelve times greater than that
of England, three and a.halftimes great.
er than that Of Ireland, and nine times
greater than that Of Scotland. We have
already pointed out why the people are
leaving Europe for the United States.
They do so to escape military service, to
shake off oppression, to secure for them
selves freedom, and to bequeath to their
children the fruits of their own industry
and the heritage ofself government. The
Irish people emigrste because of griev.
ances, some of which are indeed real, but
some of which, we rejoice to say, are
now only matters of history.
But why are the people Of Cansds,
who have a country 80 sparsely peopled,
fleeing across the border as if to escape
from soma fatal pestilenceP From the
city Of Montreal alone the people are
leaving at the rate of ten thousand a
year. The influences which operate in
Europe do not operate here. 0.her in.
huenCes are at work which are sensibly
diminishing the population in many
parts of Canada. 1t is vain for the Gov
ernment organs to deny these facts.
They promised the people better times,
and those better times, as compared with
our neighbors, have not come. The
United States, from its geographical posi-
ton, and from the great variety of its
productions, have, and will
always have, an extensive Interstate
trade. Nature has denied this TO Cana
da. The constitution of the United
States forbids the imposition of ptoteCt-
i've duties between the States Oh the Un
ion. Free trade is thus secured between
fifty millions Of people. We have aban.