Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-04-18
SOURCES OF IMMIGRATION.
Southern Europe Now Sends Most
People 70 America.

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 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 ,aC second rank in the
world heavy tribute has been laid
upon every part of Ew> pc save Rus.
STA and the Balkan peninsula, and
the present DRIFT in that direction Is
unmistakablc enough to Justify the
prediction that thnly settled as are
! the valleys of the Balkans and tho
steppes Of Muscovy they, too, will
mako ere long important contributions
to the citizenship of the western
| world
While emigration has proceeded
| from each country according as IL has
| felt the pressure OF oyerpopulation or
/ of illiheral government. II has ob.
served withal curious geographical
sequence, The race that peopled this
continent at tho beginning and gave
IL the Impress to which all others
have contormed were from the west
of Europe, From Spain came the pro.
gonitors OF the Latin republic, from
France came the pioneers of lower
| Canada; from Scotland, England and
Protestant ireland came the mon who
founded this nation aud fought for is
freedom These movements had all
begun to subside before the dawn q
the nineteenth century, and the first
half of that century had az tia 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 a
flood of Teutons vastor than that
which overwhelmed the Roman EN-
piro rolled across our country, then It
began to decline, the arrivals for
the decade Just ended being only
about one-torth those of the proceed,
ing decade, while Germany has sunk
TO the fourth place among tho states
which contributed to our population,
Including whiting the period of the
German exodus was that of the more
thiuly populated scandinavian states
of northern Europe, which had re.
markablo manifestations between 1870
and 1890 but has declined more than
one.half in the last decade.
Tho movement out of the southern
and eastern Europe was negligible
quantity Mt late as 1870 and had only
begun to snow It's volume In 1899.
but II has reached the proportions OF
u deluEo In the last decade, Italy.
Austria.llungary and Russia, with Fin.
land and Poland, sending more than
million peasants to this Coutry IN
! seven years--or nearly ns many as
they had sent It in the four hundred
years since an italian discovered it
anu llalS supplying south America III
addition with tho bulk OF It's Inn
migrant population. 1t Is To be doubt.
ed II II has yet attained it's height.
and political events In eastern Europe
may give II still greater volume, The
exodus from the small states of
Belgium Holland, Denmark ana
Switzerland was comprised between
1870 and 1890. whom over 100000 OF
their citizens came TO this country.
or about 100000 immigrants
who have arrived since 1921, about
100000 are from western, 6,000,0 900
from central, 100000 form northern
and 100000 from southern and
eastern Europe, the rest being from
miscellaneous and minor sources.