The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-07-08
IMMIGRATION AND TARIFF.

IMMIGRATION AND TARIFF.
4 Reply to Ex-Congrsssm.n MeAdoo-Ws
want All the Good Emigra.ts That Conc
They Increase Oar Home Aarkse-In.
migration Always Follows Prosperssy'
and Pfhperlv Restricted IL Not Unde. |
sirable.
In the Forum for June the Hon. VIII
liam McAdoo, Of New Jersey, discusses
immigration and the tariff. His view
Is that very high or substantially pro-
hibitory tariff in the United States is |
bound to force an immigration which is |
inimical to American labor and con- |
trary to the best interests of the whole |
country.
There never was, is not now, and |
never will be, any reason for Europeans
to migrate to the United States, except
q desire to better their condition. 1t
was news from across the seas of plenty
of work and wages in America which
started the streams of emigration to
these shores. The thousands OF foreign
workers who are landing now come. as
their predecessors came, because they
can get more pay and more food for
their days labor than could be had at
home. Aside from legislative restric-
tons there is but one way to dam the
inflOwing stream: Depress the stand
ard Of American wages and living, and
beget among our working people the
degradation and hopelessness that is the
lot of the European peasant, and you
will be bothered no longer with unde-
sirable immigrants. But just so long
as we continue to prosper, and no legis-
lative barriers exist, starving humanity
will swarm to share in the bountiful
banquet which is the heritage of the
American workiDgman.
The statistics of immigration show
that every prosperous period in our his
tory was marked by q rapidly swelling
| stream of immigration, while the peri
| DDS of commercial disaster and stagnant
industry invariably decreased its vol
ume. The earliest figures at hand on
immigration begin with 1891. year
within the period of depression which
began in 1917. We find. therefore, i'm
migration falling of, as will appear
from the following table:
| ALIEN PASSENGERS ARRIVED IN THE UNITED
STATES DURING THE YEARS OF INDUSTRIAL
DEPRESSION, lSI-23.
y.o- yunsbsr
| 1871 Gig,
1872. ............ az,
| 1923 ~ ~
With the return OF prosperity the
stream again swelled. to be checked
second time by the stagnation OF IN
dustry in 1887, which followed the com
promise tariff of 1888. The decrease in
the number of immigrants after this
year is set forth below:
ALIEN PASSENGERS ARRIVED IN THE US1TEl
| STATES DURING THE YEARS OF INDUSTRIAL
| DEPRESSION, 1870.
Year. N" ~ -,
1887 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2. 80 81 S,'
| 1923. ............ ''''''' 80 ~
| 1859 Observation-Disclosures oaVN
Immigration recovered again with the
return of prosperity and continued In
an ever-increasing stream till reduced
nv the panic of 1857 and the succeeding
wears of commercial paralysis. Th'
figures here are also very striking:
, .I,rx PASSENGERS ARRIVED IN THE UNrTEl
J, STATES DURING THE YEARS OF INDUSTRIAL
DEPRESSION 1879
q Yeor. NM .n sa
90
| lSS,,.
/. | 1859 i"A'Vs
!, So when the crash came in 1873. lmml
| grafton Immediately felt the shock, a
!. will be seen from the figures for tn
e years involved:
| ALIEN PASSENGERS ARRIVED IN THE UNITE
STATES DURING THE YEARS OF INDUSTRIAL
DEPRESsION, lS13r,S
!. | W. Nunbe,
al is,a 473 IA
1S.S 80 . 327, 81
| iS.x .. pa. Sc
| ,SsS . 1So 81
| TO- ... 16a 0l
( iS.s . Isl. z.
Not till after the commercial skle
Q had begun to brighten in 1879 did tn
current begin to swell again. Durln
8 the following four years OF prosperlt
, the increase is quite as marked as wa
Y ~. dacrease in the preceding years