The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-05-17
HENRY GEORGE.
The Steady Flow Of Population
from Europe.
Tho Coming Increase Of Social Prcssur,
The Dny Coming when We, Like
tho Irish, VIII Have 10 MIKE
Terms with Absentee
Landlords.

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tho Irish, win Have 10 MIKE
Terms with Absentee
landlords
Henry George, In Lesllcs Illustrated Ne"s'
| paper
. Thu trees iave not yet begun to
leaf, nor oven tho blossoms To appear,
yet passing down thu lnwer part OF
Broadway these early days Of spring,
ono breasts steady current OF uncouth.
ly-dressed mon and women, carrying
bundles md boxes and MI manner pl
baggage. A tho season advances, the
human current will increase; even IN
winter ii will not wholly cease its flow.
II is tho great gulf stream Of humanity
which sets from Europe upon An,eri
ca-thc greatest migration oi peoples
since tho world began. Other minor
branches has the stream Into Boston
and PHILADELPHIA. into Portland, Que.
bee and Montreal, into Now Orleans,
Galveston, San Francisco and Victoria,
como otlshoots Of tho Same current !:
and ~ il flows ii draws increasing vol.
nma fiom wider sources. Emigration
to America has, since 1913. reduced the
population of ireland more than n
third; but as Irish ability tn feed the
stream declines English emigration IN.
creascss tho German outpour becomes
so vast rs to assume the first proportions,
and tho millions of ITALY, pressed hy
want as severe as that Of ireland, begin
TO turn 10 the cmigrant ship rs did the
Irish. In Castle Garden ono may see
tho garh md hear ths speech of all
European peoples. From the fiords
oi Norway. from the plains 81 Russia
and Hungary. from tho mountains oG
Wallaehia and from Mediterranean
shores and islands. once the center ot
classic civilization, the areat current il
fca. Every year Increases tho facility
Of its How. Year by year improvements
In steam navigation arc practically 70.
ducing tho distance hctMeen the two
continents. year by year European
railroads are making it easier for
interior populations to reach tho sea-
board, and tho telegraph, tho nowspa.
per. the sehoolmastee and the cheap
post arc lesseniag these objections oi
ignorance ana sentiment 10 removal
that arc so strong with people long
rooted in one place, Yet, in spite al
this great exodus. tho population ol
Europe, rs n whole, Is steahly inereas'
ing,
And aerosa tho continent, from ea~,
to west, from tho older to tho newer
States, an even greater migration l.
going on. Our people emIgrate NOR,
readily than those Il Europe, aaa, in,
creasing "a European immigration is. II
Ii yct becoming less and less i'm
portant factor of our growth, rs com
pared with the natural Increase Of on,
population, At Chicago and ST, Paul
Omaha and Kansas City, tho volume a
tne westwar,l.moying earreat has in
creased, not diminished, From What,
so short a time ago. was tho new We>'
of unhroken prairie and native forest
goes on, as children grow NJ, con
stant migration to a newer West,
. This westward expansion cf papnla
tien has goae ON steadily since the ilrsi
settlement oi the Eastern shore, L
has been the great distinguishing
feature in the conditions of our people
! Without its possibility We would hav,
been in nothing what We are, TN
! higher standard of wages and of cam
fort and of average Intelligence. eW
superior seli-re,ianee, energy, invent
. iveness, aaaptahilty ana asslmilatIv,
! power spring as directly from thi
possibility Of expansion as does our nm
! precedentea growth. AL that W. ar
proud of in national life and na.iona
: character comes primarily from on
: background OF unused land. We an
but tsansplmtea Europeans, and, fo
!, that matter, mostly ef tho "mferio
/ classes"
: 1t ia not usually thosc whose position
4 Ia comfortable and whose prospects AT
bright who cmigrate. il is those wh
are pinehed and dissatisfied, those I
whom no prospect seems open, Their
are heralds' colleges in Europe tina
- drive good hesiness in providing
certain class of Americans with nt,u
grees and eoats.oi-arms: hut il is psol
I ably we'll for this sort of self.esteet
that tho majority of It's cannot srnl
trace our ancestry very far, We ha
wise some Quaker fathers, and osho
sorts of fathers; yet the majority eve
of the carly settlers did not GENE |
America for "feeedom ,e worship God,
but because They we've poor. aiseatt,
fled. unsuccessful or reealessly ads.n
urous--many because they We're esic
ell. many to escape imprisonment, nam
because they were kilnaprc1, many I
self-sold hondsmen. rs indentstrcd NJ
prentices or merceaary soldiers. IL
. the virtue Of new soil. the freeaam ,
opportunity given hv the possibility ,
expansion, that has here transmit,
into wholesome human growth m2tHgi
that. had it remained in Europe. mig
have heen DEGRADED aud aangerou
ir.st as i'm Australia til. same eandlt'0s
have made respected and Self-ncspectn
citizens out of the descendants af so
yicts, and out Of conyicts thems Ives.
1, may he doubted If the relation
the opening Of the New World ta II
development Of maaern civilization
vet fully recognized. In many respec
the discovery Of Columbus has prov.
the most important event i'm the h.sta
of the European world since the aiis
of Christ. How Important Ancri
has been to Europe as furnishing
outlet for tho restless. tie alssatlsfir
/ the oppressed :.nd the down-tro,l'ie
how influences cmanatlng from I
freer opportunities aud fseer life
America have reacted upon Europe
- thought and life. NC can clAlT hee
OF tn realize when VIC try f. imagine Nj
~, would have haen the present ef
ditien of Europe had Columbus foa
u only watery waste lstmaea Eur
and Asia, or even had he fou0d Ter.
L, continent populated as India or sh's
or even Mexico were populated.
. And, eorreiatiysiT, ntle of the m'
momentons events that could happen
the modern world would ha tAe eeasl
a