Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-05-23
EMIGRATION FROM ENGLAND.
Greatest Proportion Of IL II etiii "a
the United States.

Greatest Proportion Of Il II stiii q
the United States.
The report BY Mr.. O. p. Lucas on the
smigrants' information Office for 1895
gives evidence Of good work done %
small cost to the public, says the Lon
don Times. We are not sure that much
more could be done than IL done o..
ready BY the managing committee and
their agents. The colonies do not, a.
Q rule. care to receive more emisrants
than We are sending to them. The
general tendency. there and in the
United States, ID to look with some
Jealousy at each new arrival. More
working hands means moro competi.
ton for employment, with lower wages
a. the result; while new hands who are
not inclined to work are 40 little Do.
sirabls q part Of the population In The
new world % in the old.
In 1895 the passengers who LETT the
ports Of the United Kingdom for places
out Of Europe amounted in round mum.
bsrs to $4,000. % against $4,000 In
1904. In the flrst two months Of 1890
the emigrants Of british origin have
been 1874, 40 against 18Th In the
corresponding period Of 1895. The
place Of destination for the largest
number 10, and continues to be, the
United States. This 10 most markedly
% In the case Of foreign emigrants
passing through this country on their
way to their place Of settlement, but Il
10 the case, too. with emigrants OF Brit.
isn origin.
Next in point Of attractiveness comes
South Africa, and, in spite Of recent
disturbances. II has gained ground
very considerably during the present
year. In 1906. $4,000 emigrants went
% the Cape and Natal, 40 against
rather less than 1900 In 1904. This
shows an increase Of more than 30 per
cent. but It has been far outdone dur.
Ing the present year by the further In.
crease from 1,0A1 to 3,343 In the arst
two months Of the year. British North
America has also been doing better %
an emigration field. but the numbee Of
Hmigrants thither and to the Australian
colonies continues to be comparatively
small.
Ono point OF interest in emigration
statistics is, as Sir Robert Citizen has
shown. that they serve to indicate the
state Of trade generally. A. trade i'm.
proves emigration will be found to In
crease, while a decline In emigration
10 . most certain sign and forerunner
Of an approaching trade depression.
The report Of the emigrants' informa.
ton ONCE and the further figures In
the Board Of Trades emigration re-
turns are therefore very satisfactory.
They combine, with such proofs % tho
trade returns have lately been furnish
ing. to show that we are at length In
the course Of q genuine trade revival.
The Australian colonies, Il II true,
have not yet fully recovered from the
grave crisis which they have gone
through, and 20 close are the modern n,
dustrial relations between one country
and another that effect Of Australian
depression must DO felt here 40 cor.
tainly 40 in Australia itself. But there
II nothing In this to discourage 10. II
our trade shows signs Of revival while
Australia 10 still depressed, We may be
confident that 1t will improve the more
when Australia, with Its energy, Ito
amplitude Of resource, and Its vast re.
Operative powers, has recovered tho
ground which II hns lost, and when the
upward and onward movement now In
progress has extended to the two or
three districts Of the country which. as
the report shows, 1t has not yet fully
reached.