Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-31

.Anutntr cNluence OF pfeYalllng pros
perity in this distasteful
though il may prove TO tho Republican
calamity howlers-is thus related by
the Providence, Il, L., Journals"
While some of the Republican ca
lamity howlers are not yet done with
their favorite cry of Democratic hard
times, and while we may as we'll make
up our minds to the necessity of listen
ing to the Same WORKOUT rallying- cry
in the next presidential campaign, it is
interesting TO note some further evi-
dence of the fact that the country is
regaining the prosperity which it lost
Two years ago. Such evidence is found
in the statistics OF immigration which
are furnished from Washington, and
which show that in the recent past the
number OF foreigners coming to these
shores has been greatly in excess of
the number registered during the early
part of the period of financial depres.
sion. Last month the total arrivals
were 36, 500, against 1904 in Septem-
her year ago, and the aggregate for
the nine months ending September
Both, 1895, was 2i9, 332, as compared
with 19l, 4s5 for the first nine months
of 1884.
These are significant figures because
they show such marked increase in
immigration during the year now
passing, and especially so great a gain
during the last month of this period.
In other words, the increase is even
more noticeable now than it was at the
beginning of the year, although it was
marked even then. The tide of re-
turning prosperity is full upon us, and
rs that fact becomes more and more
certain the influx Of Europeans in
creases in steadily greater degree. A
similar tendency has been noticeable
all through our history as a nation. In
periods of financial encouragement i'm
migration has fallen away, and upon
the return of better times it has shown
great expansion. If we had no other
measure of our own rising and falling
prosperity in the past, we might gauge
IT with some approach TO accuracy by
tabulating the immigration reports.
At first thought it might be con
sidered strange that the people who
emigrate from Europe to this country
are sufficiently wel-informed to know
when our periods of depression begin
and when they end. They are, many
or most Of them, an ignorant class, moi
well posted regarding the affairs Of
their own country, much less those OF
any other, and yet they seem to be able
to judge when the best time to make
the journey across the Atlantic il. II
should be remembered, however, that
in very many instances they have rela
tives or friends in the United States
who keep them well informed about
such important matters as this The
| American members of foreign borr
family have to provide large portion
of the passage money for their relatives
to emigrate with as Il rule, and They
arc not likoly to send over the price
OF passage when times arc hard.
Nor arc they Liable to advise theii
friends to cross the ocean when the
chances of securing employment her,
are small. All their counsel at such
time would be TO stay away until time
are better. And. with the return o
prosperity, wc find them sending remit
tances TO the "old country and tell
ing their acquaintance that there is ;
demand for labor on this side of tn,
ocean at last.