New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-03
THEY GO HOME AND WAIT.
LARGE EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF
sTEERAGE PASSENGERS.
VIEWS OF STEAMSHIP ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ax
THEY WILL. RETURN-DRIvEN AWAY
BY DEMOCRATIC HARD TIMES.


BY DEMOCRATIC HARD TIMES.
The report of the Superintendent Of Immigration
in which he expressed his belief that the toe
Of emigration from this country for the last year
was equal to the tide Of immigration setting INTO
IL has been the subject of considerable Comment
The opinion of the Commissioner seems 10 De 'he
opinion OF the agents of the great trahsatia"''e
lines Accurate statistics are Kept OF all ."e 'n'''
grants arriving here hut the statistics Oh the emil
a,,s going out of the country not kept by the
government and can only be gathered In rag
nentary manner from the reports OF the various
steamship companies. From all the iniorma'on w
tauable Il is evident that as many steerage passe"
gers have left the country as have come ih'o !"
the last year . 80. ,ao auo L..
migrants came into the country. This. OF course
Includes the immigrants arriving not only al the
mort OF New-York. but at all other ports suen as
San Francisco. New-Orleans. Philadelphia Dos'o"
and Baltimore and from Canada
probabv 10000 arrived at this port. Emil h
poas the agent OF the Hamburg American Line
in an article on emgra Ion and immigration ~
osr,lv unfinished in Die Zet' Vienna puonca-
ton estimated that from July /, 1898. TO Sep
TENDER &c. 1884, least 10000 steerase passehse's
sailed out OF the port OF New-York rms is ABOUT
double the emigration in ordinary times Inc TACT
Is that the emigra ton from this country mas oeeh
steadily increasing since the present Demo-
cratic Administration came in The emigration Is
NOT from the immigrants that crowd the squalid
tenements OF Cherry Hill and Mulberry bena' uut
came 70 this country because IL was the most pros
porous one and go away because IL mas Seaseu "
tyrize themselves and their families 10 the political
and economical theories or the an ,oo.ine
Ponulistic allies Ii facts that they are IoohlnS
Tor The great majority of these peop:e, however.
have abiding confidence IN the ua heads Of
families which 20 away say: "On, we are only sc.
the sa old ,ss country w s say pa
Vernon H. Brown the agent OF the canas s. nn ~
said IN spsnms o. have not the figures
at hand but believe TIA. ast year MAJ Leave this
nnmnirv for Europe as have come over as imml-
grants This Is due mainly 10 TIE hiri tines nerS
s me one and most OF them have signined
their Intention OF returning when times ger .
/ think our ships the last year have taken OUT
fSllv As many steerage passengers as they nave nave
brought in. The present laws guarding Irnn a.
hse Ihev are TO prevent undesirable class
of immigrants from coming into me cou nss "a -
class which over now on our Vessels =; ,b
desirable and 4 is not So great IN jumpers
it cannot be readily assmliated WIN hs ost
sisht OF is that the steerage passenger has
become traveller 1t has become Just as m ih ia
custom for the Storage passenger 10 80 70 inc osa
country to visit his friends ana a. relatives IVES
as it is for the man who raves "a tne mssI large
number OF people who are simply travellers. ,a
Wrsh OF TIVE Of s%
grafton has been FULLY IS great II nor sreatet.
TINS year ,r h Is due mainly to the hard times
in This country The low rates OF steerase passage
~ 49, Of course something 10 do with II. what
nas .,,rar,s 90 come over OF a desirable
class' and the law throws all the proper safe
a,,a ris around the immigrant traffic. Emil II.
5nas 81 the Hamburg American Line. was OF the
same opinion the other agents regarding the
ZION OF the last In regard to the laws
Snweernng immigration. he thought they were sum-
stont He said: I'VE have stations or the Russian
aran,s are examined. and they are examined again
at Hamburg. II they are Nihilists or Anarchist.
peected AT Ellis Island. they are turned back.
We have one efficient way OF seeing that our
,rm,nrants are proper persons to land here. II
an Immigrant Is rejected at Ellis Island we charge
the agent who sold him the ticket with the whole
here are better more people will come over Now. !
believe, the tide Is setting the other way.