Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-18
SOURCES OF IMMIGRATION.
Southern Europe Now Sends MOST
People to America.


In the circumstances as disclosed
by the immigration figures for the
past year, that the bulk OF the
steerage arrivals in our country are
now from Italy and eastern Europe,
there is a striking illustration OF the
manner in which the migratory
instinct attacks one section OF the old
world after another, says the New
York Mail and Express. To raise the
population of America within
century to NE second rank in the
world heavy tribute has been laid
upon every part of Eul> pc save Rus
STA and the Balkan peninsula, and
the present drift in that direction is
unmistakable enough to justify the
prediction that thinly settled as are
the valleys of the Balkans and the
steppes of Muscovy they, too, will
make ere long important contributions
to the citizenship of the western
world.
While emigration has proceeded
from each country according as 1t has
of illiberal government, it has OBJ
served withal curious geographical
sequence. The race that peopled this
continent at the beginning and gave
it the impress to which all others
have conformed were from the west
genitors of the Latin republic; from
France came the pioneers of lower
Canada; from Scotland, England and
Protestant Ireland came the men who
founded this nation and fought for is
freedom. These movements had all
the nineteenth century, and the first
half of that century had as its chief
clinical fact the exodus of Catholic
Ireland to this country.
AS the Irish immigration began to
fall off, just before the civila war, the
German states of central Europe came
to the front as the main source of
our immigration. From 1850 to 1890
flood of Teutons vaster than that
which overwhelmed the Roman En-
pire rolled across our country; then 1t
began to decline, the arrivals for
the decade just ended being only
about one-forth those of the proceed
ing decade, while Germany has sunk
to the fourth place among the states
which contributed to our population.
Including whiting the period of the.
German exodus was that of the more
hiulN lot -fa
of northern Europe, which had re-
markable manifestations between 1870
and $780, but has declined more than
one-half in the last decade
The movement out of the southern
and eastern Europe was a negligible
quantity at late as 1870, and had only
begun to show its volume in 1899,
but it has reached the proportions of
deluge in the last decade, Italy,
Austria-Hungary and Russia, with Fin
land and Poland, sending more than a
million peasants to this coutry in
they had sent it in the four hundred
years since an Italian discovered it
and Italy supplying South America in
addition with the bulk of its i'm
migrant population. 1t is to be doubt
ed if it has yet attained it's height,
and political events in eastern Europe
may give it still greater volume. The
exodus from the small states of
Belgium, Holland, Denmark and
Switzerland was comprised between
1870 and 1890, when over 300 900 of
their citizens came to this country.
OF about 100000 immigrants
who have arrived since 1921. about
100000 are from western, 100000
from central, 100000 form northern
and 100000 from southern and
eastern Europe, the rest being from
miscellaneous and minor sources