The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-29
THE OLD WORLDS OVERFLOW.

More than 10000 immigrants landed at
the port of New York during the first half of
this year At that rate, more than $50 900
Of these crusaders will have reached us by
the end of December.
Such an influx is without precedent. Its
nearest approach was last year, when the
number reached 327.371. The only other
years when the limit of 800. 900 was passed
were 1852 and 1854. The four years from
1876 to 1873, inclusive, brought but 282, TOT
all combined.
Why is it that an immigration Of 54,536,
four years ago. is swollen to an immigration
Of 100000 to-day? Emigration to Amer
ica is becoming almost panic in Europe :,
for it must be noted that to the Castle Gar.
den figures should be added those of the
other leading gateways for immigration, such
as Boston, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans,
Philadelphia, and San Francisco. In the
month of May there arrived at New York
rs, 791 immigrants; and in the three months
of April. May, and June there were 1876. 955.
as against the aggregate Of 1913, 147 arrivals
for the three years 1876, 1877 and 1873,
taken together.
For the year ending July 80, it is estimat-
ed that 66S, 900 immigrants came to the Unit
ed States, taking together oil the ports Of
entry. This is about 100000 more than
during the preceding fiscal year. tits not
unlikely that the entire year of 1881 will
show an aggregate influx, at all ports, of
10000.
From the beginning of the year 1916 to
the present time. eight million immigrants
have passed through this port. Mixed to.
gether come Greeks and Turks, Poles and
Portuguese, Sardinians and Sicilians, Aus
TRANS and Australians, Africans, Arabians,
and Mongolians. But in the proportions Of
emigration at different times among different
nations we can detect something of the
causes that impel it.
Militarism, Kaiserism, fsmines, the OPP
preston of land laws, and an unwillingness
of the great 10 allow the poor and the humble
to better themselves in their native land
these are the leading causes which. Joined in
the case of some nations to love of adven-
ture, experiment, and of making acquaint-
snce with the globe we dwell on, have
brought about this wonde full pilgrimage to
America. Thirty or forty years ago, in the
days Of Irish distress and Irish disturbance,
the immigration from Ireland was greater
than that from all other countries combined.
In 1849 the arrivals at Castle Garden from
Ireland numbered 1861, against 1OS, OH
for ell others the following year they mum.
bered III ,098, against 95, 758 for all others;
the year following that they were 163, 1906,
against 125, 296 for all others. Nearly three
millions of Irish have come to this port during
the present century. and of these 624 ,230 ar
rived in the FIVE years from 1849 to 1858, in
elusive. But if we come down to the year
1866, we find that the German immigration
was then LOG, ZIG, against an Irish immigra-
ton Of 68,047 that the next year it was
1881, against an Irish immigration of
90, 1874 and that the next year it was 101,-
9S0, against an Irish immigration Of only
1851.
Why did the German immigration, which
had been out 27 ,139 in 1861, 81 TAG in 1862,
and $4,000 in 1868, jump to threefold and
fourfold rates few years later? Undoubt-
edly the cessation Of our civil war had
something to do with it; but that this is not
the sole cause is clear, from the fact that
almost twice as many &c rmans came here in
1868 and 1864, during the war, as in 1858
and 1859. before the war. 1t was in 1865
and 1866, however, that the modern mill
tarism which rules Germany was fully de.
yeloped and then people who did not desire
to become food for powder FASTENED to our
shores. After the war with Austria, the
German immigration dropped sgain; but
after the war with France it rose to the IN.
exampled figures Of 152,7o5 and no doubt
it would have continued very high but for
the financial panic which soon after visited
this country.
But France, where agricultural distress is |
rare, and where the people are. on the aver
age, well TODD, sends US very few emigrants. |
Her people in general do not seek to expatri-
ate themselves. Among her greatest con-
tributions to America were those of 1851 |
and 1852, years connected with Louis |
Napoleon's coup detat. Though France is
q country Of only q fewmillions less popula.