Evening star., 1899-04-12
EMIGRATION FROM GERMANY.
Greater Part of the Living Stream
Flows Into This Country.

1.-The imperial German commissioners re-
ports upon emigration in $685. just pub
lished, have a particular interest for our
country" says Louis Stern, United States
commercial agent at Bamberg, Germany,
in a report to the State Department. "in
the first place, because they show that the
bulk of the Germ an emigration is in the di-
rection of the United States, and second,
because they recognize the enormous devel-
opment of American industry during the
last two years.
IN 1898 1GO,97S persons emigrated from
German ports, viz: 6O4S6 from Bremen,
39. $50 from Hamburg and go from Stettin.
OF these emigrants from German ports,
I7173 were from the German empire, viz:
S.S26 via Bremen $40 via Hamburg. and
III via StCttin. The greater part, SO, S)5,
were of other nationalities, among whom
IS, 4B were from Austr:a-Hungary, 1858
from Russia and 14,6OO from the United
States The latter were. of course, by far
the greater part, Americans on their way
back home, who, though carried by emf
grant ships, did not belong to the class of
emigrants. From Roumania S55 persons
came, from Denmark 27G from other Eu-
ropean states there were still fewer. The
ways, the United States. To that country
went S,54S; to British America, 4,69S to
the Argentine Republic, 2,521; to Brazil,
LIB; to Africa, 1,sS6; to Australia, 674; to
Asia, 302: to Chile. 191, and to the West
Indies, 115, Emigration from German ports
has, upon the whole, increased a little in
1898. The gain is. however, only in the
number of non-German emigrants.
Effect of the Dingley Tariff.
1.-The imperial commissioner at Bremen
says in his report:
The strong tendency toward the United
States, In spite of immigration having been
rendered more difficult, finds an explanation
in the fact that American industry has
largely developed in consequence of the
Dingley tariff, and that the demand for
experienced artisans has therefore greatly
increased Moreover, German manufac-
turers have. in order to save the customs
duties established branch houses of their
works in the United States
"AS shown by the statistics, the artisans
emigrating have increased in number from
per cent in 1897 to Is per cent in 1898.
Notwithstanding the increase in this cat
egory of emigrants, the general emigration
of Germans to our country has grown less
from year to year. and has gone down last
year against the year before by 1913 persons,
q fact which Is no doubt due to the pros
porous condition of commerce and industry
in the German empire The emigration Of
German agriculturists was as limited in
1898 as 1t had been in 1897. The greater
part of emigrants was composed OF Rus
slams, Poles, Hungarans Croats and Slo-
vacS; also Jews living In these nations.
The emigration to Africa, particularly to
the Transvaal and Cape Colony, numbered
AT persons in 1898, being about the same
as the year before.
"Only a small fraction of emigrants took
their way in 1898, as well as In former
years, to the German colonies in Africa and
the efforts of the Hanseatic Colonization
Association formed In order to promote
German emigration to Santa Catherine in
south Brazil, have also so far been attended
with very scant success"