Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-01
MIGRATION.
HOW THE LEADING COUNTRIES
WERE SETTLED.
The Human Family Still on the
Move-The Tide Tending
Westward.

DR.. IL. Latham.l
The worlds settlement and development
is a record of the migration of the human
race. The great races that now inhabit the
richest portions of the earth that have es-
tablished the most powerful empires and
developed the highest types of civilization,
have been migratory ones. and their homes
now are thousands Of miles from the lands
OF race birth. The Iudo-European family
OF races which now occupies all of India,
Europe, North and South America, Aus
tralia and South Africa. and thousands of
the islands of the oceans. originated on the
table-lands of Asia. In the dim and misty
ages of tradition the Celts, the first of this
great family to migrate left the shadows
of their mother mountains. and with their
wives and children, their focks and herds.
crossed a roadlcss and trackless country
for thousands of miles, and occupied
France. Ireland and Scotland, and there es-
tablished institutions that have existed to
the present time. The Gothic races. at a
later time, from the same cradle of human
itv, marched toward the setting sun, and
occupied the finest and richest portions of
Europe, where they laid the foundations of
the present languages and empires of that
division of the Garth. The Huns and
Aans followed them. and like an angry
flood inundated all of Eastern Europe and
al last made permanent homes upon the
Danube and its tributaries. The Ger
manic tribes, following the trail of their
predecessors, occupied the forests which,
through their energy and industry, have
become the powerful Empire of Germany
There they multiplied and became the
terror OF their neigbbcis. Their migratory
spirit grew with their growth in numbers.
In The paling days OF Rome the Cimbri
and Teuiones. leaving the shadows of these
forests, carried desolati0n and alarm to the
gates of the Imperial City. The Franks,
another Of the Germanic tribe. crossed the
Rhine, seized the lands Of their Celtic
DeighbOrs and established tue nationality
of France. The Anglos and Saxons, also
from the Germanic forests crossed the
North Sea and occupied Britain. and from
them has sprung the greatest manufacture
ing and commercial nation of history. The
Sclavonic people, in later times. from
Asiatic homes settled Eastern Europe
where their civilization is an important
factor in European policy. Another mem
Der of this ifidO European family of races
moved south and conquered the peninsula
OF India, and st.lI occupy it.
This great race family control the most
powerful and influential Governments of
the HDIlu- Atcf nave eStaD1SneI ana de-
yeloped the highest types of civilization
carried commerce to the remotest seas, and
created literatures and laws that will en-
dure with time. The history of its migra-
tons would fill volumes, and a record of
its achievements would make libraries.
Migration has not been confined to this
race family. The migratory spirit has
animated other races. The Tarfars have
left their homes on the table lands of the
nf.fI rnr1t nd =.
one direction and become the dominating
factor IN Russia in another The conquer
ing race of Japan was from the same
source; the Ottomans left their bleak,
sterile homes and occupied Asia Minor
and ali European Turkey; the inhabitants
of the Arabian peninsula dominate two
thirds OF Africa, aud the Poiynesians have
spread over all of Australasia The whole
history OF the ancient world shows the hu-
man race to be
AS RESTLESS AS THE TIDES OF OCEAN
The distinguishing traits of these elder
migrations was the movement of whole
communities in search of homes In mod
ern times the migrations of the human
family have been upon a grander scale, but
the movement has been by individual fam
lilies. For more than five centuries there
has been such movement of people as
dwarfs the Celtic, Gothic and Germanic
migrations. Mexico. Central America and
all South America Except BraziD, the
Philippine Islands and Cuba and Porto
Rico have been settled from Spain. Brazil
and great numbers of other islands have
been peopled from Portugal. France has
established colonies on every grand divis-
ion of the earth. Great Britain has sent
vast numbers of people to North America,
India, Australia and Africa. The Germans
have sent representatives to every country
where commerce has reached. The chill
dren of Holland occupy countries
whose area and population far out
reach their native country. The peace
ful migration of modern times
superseded aud supplanted the ancient
bloody race migration. The one settled
and changed the maps of Europe and
Asia: the other has developed the New
World. In our own country migration
first seized upon the Atlantic coast from
Maine to Florida The strong arm of the
invading host ieveled the giant forests and
planted smiling homes in their places The
Immigrants crossed the Alleghanies and
wrested the dark and bloody grounds of
Ohio and Kentucky from their savage oc-
cnpants and converted them into lands of
plenty. They occupied the great prairies
of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys
vast country between the Allegheny
range and the continental divide, equal in
area to several of the powerful nations of
Europe. In that region they have built
cities that rival in wealth, population,
trade and manufactures those of Europe
They founded pQpulous States that press
the older ones in the race for the first
places in the Union. They lined the
shores of their great lakes and their mighty
rivers with masts and covered the waters
with the sails OF commerce. They marked
the land with a network of iron ways that
placed every door within easy reach of the
outer world
ITS WESTWARD COURSE
This migratory stream flowed ever the
snowy mountains into the interior basins
and valleys; through the passes of the
Cascades and Sierra Nevadas to the tides OF
the Pacific. More than one-haif of the
sixty million people of this great republic
are now living in States and Territories
other than their native ones They have
left the shadows of the roof-trees of child
hood to go out and create hopes for them
selves. We have now living in this coun-
try more than 100000 people who came
TO us across the ocean. These people
brought with them 5000, 900 600 and added
1t to our wealth. They are now engaged
IN every branch of productive industry.
More than one-half of them are filters of
the soil. We have now nearly 16 600 900
people who have descended from foreign
parents. These are co-laborers with lis in
the development of onr country. Many
of our great States have more adopted
than native children. Our own State is
notable example of this. OF the one mil
lion people here, 65000o are adopted citi-
zens. They crossed the great plains or
braved the dangers of the ocean to seek
homes here, and whatever we have of civ
ilizarion we owe to them. They have sub
dued savage waste: built towns. villages
and cities; cultivated the land started the
tireless wheels of great industries laid
seige TO the storehouses of the great noun
tains, and compelled them to yield up
more than billion dollars in gold Such
is the record in brief, of ancient and mod
ern migration; and still the ages of migra-
tons have not passed away. The swarms
of people who are in search of homes is
greater to-day than at any time within the
historic period. The crowdipg of popula-
IONS IN Europe and the Eastern States of
the Union; the exhausted condition of the
soils OF the Atlantic slope; the often-re-
peated division of the original homestead