St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-28
THE TIDE OF TRAVEL.
Emigrants Coming to the Northwest
in Unusual Numbers.
Question of Removing to the United
States Agitat1ng all Europe.

States Agitat1ng all Europe.
The emigrant arrivals in st. Paul, pass
ing on their way to the harvest fields OF the
Northwest. have been quite numerous
during the past week or two. The class
arriving is much better than that of year
of two ago. Mr.. Charles E. Norton, until
recently European emigration agent for the
Milwaukee road, but now Northwestern
emigration agent for that company, with
headquarters in st. Paul, in talking with a
GLOBE reporter yesterday, said:
1.-The class of emigrants now coming from
Europe is superior to that of former years,
and the tendency Of emigration Is more to-
wards the Northwestern states than at any
previous period A careful investigation,
made last year during an extended tour
through Western Europe, leads me to be-
lieve that very desirable class of produc-
ers, skilled labOrers, and tradesmen with
small capitals, are preparing to establish
their future homes in this vicinity. In
Great Britain small farmers. who have
been burdened with high rents and taxation,
and have been struggling for bare exist
ence for years. are coming here with what
ever they can yet call their own. England
is fast becoming large market garden
General farming is being abandoned and
the grain produce of America, India, and
Egypt, ETC., is depended upon for the sus-
tenance of it's overcrowded millions.
'"The landlords everywhere are greatly
alarmed at the threatened exodus of their
tenant farmers, and are making feeble eff
forts to retain their hold on the producing
70 %hn
sinew of England.
British landlords have also vast possess
sionS in America, and are extending their
operations here with keen perception of
the possibilities of the near future. 1t may
not be generally known that the Duke Of
| Sutherland owns 100000 acres the Earl of
Dunmore 100, 900 acres, Sir George Reed
2, 200, 600 acres, Phillips, Marshall & Co. Of
London 1. 800, 600 acres the heirs of Col.
Murphy no less than 41O0, 600 acres, and
others too numerous to mention whose pos
sessions would make an interesting list if
compiled and published.
Moreover, learn of agents new here
who have letters of credit end full powers
! to buy very extensively. Just before leav-
| ing England called upon Dne of the edi-
tors Of very prominent London newspaper,
and his ideas as to the value of immigration
| to the United States from Great Britain are
worthy of note. He said in effect that the
British government some time ago compiled
statistics as to England'S loss and Americas s
gain by reason of immigration from the
former to the latter country. 1t took a long
time to arrive at results, but the
INQUIRIES WERE CAREFULLY CONDUCTED
and related more especially to small tenant
for fovy, lob Tho cra
amount Of cash capital carried over by each
of these persons was 917, or S105, and the
estimated value of such immigrants was
e200, or $1,000, added to the working capi-
tai of their newly adopted country. The
increase Of immigration Of all nationalities
| is so suggestive that it is certain to present
serious problem for the consideration of
| the United States government in the near
| future. For the years ending June 80, 1879,
| to 1882, the numbers were in 1879, TT, ,S26;
in 1880, 457, ,257; in 1881, $50, 431, and in
| 1882, 1888, ,992, In 1878 the immigration
| from Great Britain was 81, $50, and in 1882
| the number was 1913, ,76s, and the value of
| II, $50 of these enigrantsf THAT is, the amount
OF cash carried away by them and their
value as producers), was estimated by the
| British government to be no less than $780,
900, 600; this sum, ia other words, was di-
rect loss to Great Britain and an equally
direct gain to the United States.
I'm Germany great restrictions are placed
upon emigration, and printed material, re-
ferring in the most indirect way to the adj
vantages offered to the agricultural COM
munity by the Northwestern states of
America, must not be circulated; but not
withstanding this the progress and prosper
ity of the Germans here is SO. well known
that the government might as well instruct
the ocean tides to keep within designated
boundaries as to opreyent the surplus popu-
lation from improving their condition by
coming to America. Moreover, Germany
is now foremost as European military
nation and the compulsory three years SER
vice is very distaSteful to those Germans
who consider this period the most valuable
and full of opportunities for determining
their future occupation, and who deem the
associations of such service as detrimental
to their future usefulness. The result is
that thousands of young farmers are pre-
pairing to leave from all parts of Germany,
and their destination is generally the North
western states. the advantages of which
are pretty well known to them through cor
respopdence with friends
Emigration to Canada and other colonies
is looked upon in Europe as dead letter,
and vast amount of talent and money is
being wasted to induce emigration to points
which all the advertising in the world will
not make comparable to Uncle Sans inn
mense estate.
81 expect to see constant improvement
in the class of emigants from Europe here
after. travelled for three years constantly
in Western Europe and made a close study
of this emigration question, and / saw
enough to convinceme that it is only ques-
ton of time when the American govern
ment will be called upon to restrict rather
than encourage emigration, notwithstand-
ing the vast area of country in the West
and Northwest which is, as yet, butthinly
populated"
SONG:
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June will