St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-30

In 1860 exactly one-fourth of the native
porn population OF the United States lived
one In four OF the natives OF this country
had emigrated from the state where they were
Pod , TO some other state. This percentage
ned increased little more than I per cert
IN lbio, but this was probably due to the un-
settling OF popIlatlon by the war. for tho
next ten years showed q decline of over a mar
cent in the native-born population living out -
side the state Of birth, and the next decade
bringing the record down to 1880. shows a still
more than one-ffth of the native population
as having left the state of birth. This is sig
niicant evidence of decline in interstate ON
igration. and or the claim that we are becom-
Ing settled people. One of the causes e.
the fact that Western lands have been SO 30
largely taken up: another is the indispositioh
o. inc me Southern people to move and a third
IL the establishment OF manufactures which
tnan agriculture.
There are seventeen states from which. dur
Ing the decade between 1880 and 1896 4 larger
proportion Of the native-born population emf
grated than the average fer the whole coun
Try: These states are Maine: New Hamp-
New York. Delaware. Virginia, Ohio Indiana
iianol Kentucky. Tennessee Wisconsin
Iowa, Kansas, Wyoming and Nevada The
states In ire East which retained larger
proportion of their notive-born population
than the average for the country are Massa-
chusatts: New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Mary
land and West Virginia, and it is in these
states that manufacturing and mining have
grown the most rapidly in recent years In
the twenty seven states which have more
than the average of their native born popula-
tlon living outside the percentage ranges from
4C.9. in the case Of Vermont to % in the "a 90
or Kansas. Prof. Wilcox also finds that the
tendency to enigrate from the native state
decreased in the decade between 1880 and 1890
IN twenty-nine states, in which are include ed
all the Atlantic and Gulf states, except Maine.
The state censuses Of New York and Massa-
cbusetts also furnish evidence that the people
are becoming more settled by showing that q
larger percentage continue to reside IN the
county or town of their birth The three
aNaiiahle censuses of New York state were
taken in 1855, 1865 and 1875. Prof Wilcox
computes that in the first year 56 per cent of
the population born in New York were resid-
ing in the county Of their birth; in the second
year, 55.3 per cent, and In the third year s.. 8
per cent. In the same way 1t is computed that
In Massachusetts 4S.61 per cent of the native
population were residing in the towns where
born in 1875, and 81 per cent were so residing
in 1885, But while this mobility of population
is decreasing in this country, statistics show
that 1t is increasing in such European coun-
tries as France, Sweden, Switzerland, Belg-
fum and England and Wales.
The point Prof. Wilcox seeks to prove by
his deductions is that, IF Interstate migra-
ton in the United States is relatively de-
o1easing, and if this has happened without
legislative regulation, simply as the result of
the action of social and economic forces, the
fact may justify the inference that even IL no
further legislation be enacted, international
migration, immigration to the United
States from foreign countries will ultimately
and, perhaps, speedily decrease