The daily gazette., 1881-08-10
GERMAN EMIGRATION.
The Remarkable Result OF the
Stampede 10 America.

The Remarkable Result OF the
stampede 10 America.
A Berlin correspondent of the London
Times thus writes
From time to time lately have sen.
you figures 70 show that emigration from
Germany is now proceeding at q rate far
exceeding anything of the kind ever
reached within tho last ten years. The
subject was repeatedly discussed during
the last session of Parliament, and 1t is
still frequent topic OF anxious interest
to the press. In the month of March az
many as 1920 Germans arrived In New
York In one day, and as mauy left Ber-
lin In one day for Hamburg. In the
month of May alone 81, 600 German emil
grants set foot in America, and it is
reckoned that from January to the 3Oth
Of June nearly 75, 900 crossed the Allan.
tic; and the total figures for tho same
kind for the last year showed threefold
increase on those of 1879, being higher
than any reached since 1872, succeeding
stronger contingent than the spring, an
equal rate Of progression will probably
turn out to have been obtained by the
end Of the present year. There would
thus seem to be some truth in the re-
mark that the most prosperous trade now
In Germany Is the export of men and
the export Of money-the two being to q
great extent interdependent. Calculs.
tfons on such subject must necessarily
be exposed to error, but one authority
reckons the capital lost to the fatherland
by emigration 10 America alone at about
IL, 300 millions Of marks. Within the
last ten years about q million of Ger
mans have crossed the Atlantic, and 1t
is further calculated that from 10000
600 to $4,000, 900 are now living without
the limits Of the empire all over the
world, justifying the remark of former
writer that Queen Victoria, besides be
Ing Empress OF Greater Britain, is the
Sovereign Of Lesser Germany.
But it is westward that the stream
of emigration mainly flows. One dis
trict Of nine villages in Pomerania had
parted before tbe end Of April with 40
families, consisting on an average of
four persons each while from anoth-
er district of West Prussia in the same
period 582 emigrants had departed for
the United States, In contrast to the
444 registered as having left the same
neighborhood in the course of all the
previous year. 1t seems to be every
where principle that the rural popu.
lation emigrate much more numerous.
ly than the dwellers in towns, and that
they quit their country oftsner in
whole families than as single persons.
There are many, however, who do not
regard this vast tide of emigration a.
an unmixed evil, but rather as . puri-
tying stream. 1t is contended that
Germany is at present suffering from
over-population, the criterion In this
respect being furnished by any coun-
try of which the inhabitants for sue
cession Of years have increased in dis
proportion, not to their territorial area,
but to their wealth. It 10 further
argued that The empire is now in this
The latest census, De-
1880, gave q total Of 45, 0OO,-
600, showing an increase of since 1875
of 2, ,468, 900 souls, and since 1871 Of
4, 1876, 600, or an annual augmentation
in the first five years Of 459, 900, and
in the second of $4,000, or II, 200 for
every million Of people. At this rate
the population Of the empire in 200
years would amount to 420, 0,0O0,0