The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-07-11
EMIGRATION fRoM ENGLAND.
nv Far the Greatest Proportion OF IL 10
Still to the United States.

Still to the United States.
The report of Mr.. C. P. Lucas on the
emigrants' information Office for 1898 |
gives evidence of good work done at
small cost to the public. We are not
sure that much more could be done
than is done already by the managing
committee and their agents. The col
onies do not. as rule, care to receive
more emigrants than we are sehding 10
them. The general tendency, there ana
in the United States, is to look with
some jealousy at each new arrival.
More working hands means more COM
petition for employment, with lower
wages as the result; while new hanos
who are not inclined to work are as
little desirable part of the population
| in the new world as in the old.
In 1895 the passengers who left the
ports of the United Kingdom for places
out of Europe amounted in round num-
bers to 272,OO0, as against $4,000 In
1894. In the first two months OF 1896
the emigrants of British origin have
been 5,184, as against 1911 in the cor
responding period of 1895. The place
of destination for the largest number
Is and continues to be, the United
States. This is most markedly so In
the case of foreign emigrants passing
through this country on their way to
their place of settlement, but IL Is the
case. too, with emigrants of British
origin.
Next in point of attractiveness comes
South Africa, and, in spite of recent dis
turbances, 1t has gained ground very
considerably during the present year.
in 1895, $4,000 emigrants went to the
Cape and Natal, as against rather less
than II, 900 in 1894. This shows an in
crease of more than SO per cent, but il
has been fer outdone during the pres
ent year by the further increase from
I.941 to 3,343 in the first two months Of
the wear. British North America has
also been doing better as an emigration
field, but the number of emigrant
thither and to the Astralian colonies
continues to be comparatively small.
One point of interest in emigration
statistics is, as Sir Robert Citizen ma
, shown, that they serve to indicate tn
state of trade generally. AS trade i'm
proves emigration will be found to in
:. crease, while decline in emigration
I a most certain sign and forerunner @
an approaching trade depression. Th
= report of the emigrants' informatio
Office and the. further figures in tn
board of trades emigration return
are therefore very satisfactory. The
: combine, with such other proofs as tn
q trade returns have lately been furnish
5 ing, to show that we are at length
IS the course of a genuine trade revival.
" The Australian colonies, it is tru
- have not yet fully recovered from I'll
II grave crisis which they have goI
q through, and so close are the modeI
~ industrial relations between one cou
80 try and another that the effect OF Au
~ tralian depression must be felt here
W certainly as in Australia itself b
there is nothing in this to discoural
IL us. If our trade shows signs of reviv
while Australia is still depressed, Y
ie NAV be confident that it will impro
u the more when Australia, with its
'n ergy, its amplitude of resource and
" vast recuperative powers, has recover
10 the ground which it has lost, and VIII
u the upward and onward movement NJ
&c in progress has extended to the two
De three districts of the country which,
10 the report shows, it has not yet fu
reached.-London Times.