Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-25
SEEK HOMES HERE.
Large Additions to the Population
of the United States.
HALF A MILLION WITHIN ONE YEAR
The Total Number Is Over Nine and
one-half Million Immigrants Since
18so-Very Small Per Cent Comes
From the Tropics.

Washington, Dec. 24-(Special cor
espondence.) -Nearly half million
people from other parts of the world
have come into the United States
during the year 1900, seeking perma-
nent homes. The details of the i'm
migration during the ten months end
ing with October gathered by the I'M
migration Bureau, and published by
the bureau of statistics indicate that
the immigration for the calendar year
will reach about 100000. OF this
number, more than 100000 come from
Austria Hungary, another 100000
from Italy and nearly another 100000
from Russia; while the United King
dom furnishes more than $4,000, OF
which number 10000 are from Ireland
OF the 100000 immigrants, fully $780,
600 come from Europe while but
1000 or less than / per cent, come
from the tropics.
The indisposition of man in his mi
grations to select colder country
than that to which he has been accus-
toned is distinctly perceptable in the
| history of our migration. In all
| the years in which detailed records
of the country of origin OF the millions
! VI ants WIZ lldNG SOHlS illIo lliC
| United States have been carefully
| kept, the tropics have seldom sent an
average of more than l per cent. of
the people seeking permanent homes
in the United States. This fact is es
| pecialiy emphasized, however. by the
! record of the year Just ended, since it
offers the first opportunity to observe
whether or not the citizens of the is.
| lands now controlled by the United
/ States indicate disposition to trans
! fer their residence to this country
The fact that during that year the i'm
migration from Oceania, India, Arabia
Africa, South America, Central Amer
lea and the West Indies, combined
the entire tropical territory of the
'Horld-amounts to less than 4,00(
people, or less than l per cent. of the
total immigration indicates the un
willingness of the average citizen Of
tropical lands to transfer his residence
to even so mild climate as thai
| which the southern part of the United
States offers. The further fact thai
during the year 1900 the total number
of immigrants coming from the Ha
waiian and Philippine islands intt
the United States was less than 25(
indicates still further the unpopularit!
of climate such as our own, ever
when joined with the material pros
4 perity such as exists in no other par
of the world with natives of the trop
les.
The following table shows the tota
immigration into the United States ant
the number from the tropics in eacf
year from 1880 to 1900. The tisca
year figures ars used in this table as
their details are more complete ant
enable comprehensive study of the
immigration record of the period il
4 question, and especially OF the contrl
buttons of the tropics to their perma
nent population. Under the designa
ton OF immigrants from the tropic:
are included all immigrants from Mex
leo, Central America, and the West In
dies, all of South America Oceania
all of Africa and the small fraction o
Asia which lies south of the Tropic o
/ Cancer