The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-01-06
The lmmigrat.On QuestiOn


The Secretary of the treasury has
transmitted the report of the commits
sioners of immigration to the House of
representatives.
We find in this report the following
facts: Canada sends 10000 laborers
over 10 the United States every spring
and in the fall they return again to
Canada to spend the winter taking
with them the wages they have saved
which aggregates a very large sum.
italy sends over 10000 annually,
many of these emigrants returning
sooner or later to the mother country
with their accumulations, where the
chcapness of living gives them COM
petence for some time. The steam
ships carrying Italian Immigrants do
an immense business both ways and
use every means to promote the traffic.
They are carried both ways at very
cheap rates, in ''freighC space" as it is
called, and the railways of this coun-
try compete with each other for this
business, which reduces their fare in
land to the minimum. The report also
says that Italy is network of emf
grant agencies and influences, and that
in New York city what is known as
the Italian bank is the financial agen-
cy in this country for the promoting of
this traffic, the passage money being
often guaranteed by friends or rela-
lives through this bank.
In this way dagoes by the tens of
thousands are landed here, and who is
To know whether the parties guaran-
teeing are really relatives or not; Or
whether or no corporationsIl not real
ly furnish the funds working through
the "pad-onesP'
Under the present conditions, where
does protection to American labor
come in? Do not American laborers
after all have to compete with the
cheap and pauper labor of all EuropeP
The laws of both Great Britain and
Ireland provide for the assisting of
poor people to emigrate. The English
government desires to solve the Irish
problem by encouraging emigration.
! TO accomplish this end it has an en-
ployed and authorised agent &nd ap-
propriates 947, 900 annually to relieve
the congested condition of west Ire
land by encouraging emigration.
From the report we quote the follow
ing:
Emigration is the only safety valve
which prevents an explosion, not alone
in Italy, but also in Great Britain,
Germany, Austria and Russia. 1t is
the solution adopted by foreign dip
lomats to great problem of state,
and serves as the strongest prop to the
top-heavy and expensive governments
of Europe.
"Cardinal Manning. of London, said !;
that one of England's greatest bless
ings vas her ability to get rid of her
pauper classes through emigration to
her colonies and to the United States,
and that if this conduit were closed
for II decade revolution would follow.
He stated that he had carefully exam
ined the question of emigration and
that the underlying reason therefor
was that in England today 81 out OF
80 of her population were landless.
1.-The republic of France is shin
ing exception to this rule. because OF
the better form of government and
the.sisetteRs distribution of land and
money, and also their admirable sys-
tenn of ''profit sharing in the various
industries. As consequence emigra,
ton from that:country to any Other
was ininitesmally small, and the pros
pelity of France helped other coun
tries out of difficult situations
assistance in the Barring Bros. failure
is Il case in point-W Whether its recent
effort in behalf of Russia will be suffi-
cient to stem the tide of destitutior
and disease is still an open question
The monopoly of land and money is
the universal cause of emigration.
There is comparatively little emf
grafton from Belgium, as little from
Belgium as there is from France, a,
both countries are full of industrial
plants, encouraged by capitalists anC
The government; and the people are 81
well provided with employment b!
these great manufacturing interest,"
that from neither France or Belgium
is there any emigration to the Unite'
States to speak of; not to exceed fiv'
to six thousand a year from Francs
and not to exceed two thousand from
Belgium
This speaks volumes. France Ia
bimetalism. France has income an6
inheritance tax. France has govern
mentownershlp of railways and speeia