The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-11-09
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ono million or moro emipanis from
are expected TO come to America
his year alone, aud for two or three years
,ast almost as large q number annually
rave poured into the United States Not
outstanding repeated strikes here and the
frequently riotously erpressed~dissa'islac
ton Of the laboring classes with us, WIN
Of which Europe is Of course FAMILIAR,
great crowds of foreigners h9@ con-
to come amongst us and settle down
as citizens. Some indeed heHe such mis-
cradle experiences that /they return to
their old homes at theAirst favorable oppor-
tunity, but the vast majority of them are
here to stay and do stay. Americans are
prone to say that this influx of strangers
arises from a perception of the many
facilities for making money and getting
rapidly rich in the United States, but this
is undoubtedly n grave mistake. They
come to escape the burdens imposed upon
them by the home government, to get the
benefit of our freedom, and are careless
or reckless about the consequences other
wise of their sojourn in America. Some
figures recently published as TO the cost of
European armies, will throw some light on
the chief grievance Of the Europeans aid
explain the main evil from which they run.
The o standing armies Of the Eu-
ropean nations are not only preventing the
growth Of population end wealth among
them, but are soaring off the best blood OF
the country, Riding the nations in fact OF
their more Independent and intelligent
classes of society in the middle ranks of life.
The cost of these armies is ire
nendous. For instance, the annual
expenses of the Russian army are
about S1S5, coo, 1000; of Great Britain, $16O,
600, 900; of France, $1,000 900; of Ger
many, about the same as France, and so OH
down through the list of the countries
from which the emigration is heaviest. In
fact, the total cost of European armies On
a peace footing is near n thousand
millionsl Aside from this fact, all able
bodied men are compelled to serve from
two to five years as a soldier. The Euro
pean laboring man is poor, and the pay Of
the European soldier is exceedingly small
even under the most favorable circum-
stances. The figures above referred to, ii
must be remembered, do not include the
civil list or the navy. When, therefore,
such a tremendous burden is laid upon the
masses of Europe, nearly $1,000, 100000 an
nually and their best time taken to keep
up q grand military establishment, it is NO
wonder they leave by the hundred thou
sands. The taxes they have to pay they
could not pay without great deprivation,
under the most favorable circumstances,
and even though they did not have to swell
the armies, and devote their best years to
its service. They fly, therefore, to a coun-
try where they can escape these enormous
demands upon their time and money, even
though they should make little here. Men
who have observed the emigration move
ment closely, who have made the subject a
study, declare that Europe's standing ar
mics are building up America more rapidly
than any other cause, so far as the contri.
button of foreign immigration is con-
cerned. That it is, above all others,
this fact that runs these people
from home cannot be disputed,
While the various governments of the old
country, therefore, are becoming exercised
to an unusual extent over the remarkable
emigration that is keeping down Their
growth in population and depriving them
of much of the best blood and muscle il
their realm, they should note the influence
that these great standing armies exert
upon the fact complained of. They should
in their search after causes, note this one,
and if they will be courageous enough tc
disband them they may hope to keep theil
people at home, otherwise they cannot dc
it, rs men who think cannot be nationally
expected to spend their time and money in
keeping up q huge camp, in which they
must themselves live half their lives. This
is the chief reason of the unprecedented
influx of Europeans to America
They come to escape the military
| duty and the burdensome taxes conse
quent upon the maintenance of the great
rmies of Europe. In the meantime
America, with its absence of military pro
c~livities or establishments, its grand pros
perity and uninterrupted peace, opens wid'
its arms to receive every one who comes
Here the duties required OF the citizen arr
scarcely felt by him, and it ought to be
pleasure to him to discharge them. Herr
taxes are light and the immigrants tim
is his own. These are vast differences anI
hardly appreciated by us who'know nothing
of the other side to the question, but they
are nevertheless annually pouring into on
borders a million human beings from
abroad who join in helping build up the
most wonderful country and youngest ma
ton in the world.