The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-01-17
SURGING OF PEOPLES.
Movements of Populations of Differ.
ent Nations and Their In"
centives.

| CenttVeS.
| The climate of Iceland has changed
| so much for the worse since 1904 that
the ALSO farms then in existence are
now mostly given up, and the people
| have been reduced to living by fishing
and grazing. The last blow has been
the stoppage of live stock exports to
the United Kingdom, Scotland having
been Iceland's sheep market for many
years past. Hundreds of Icelanders
are preparing to move to Canada
where, at Winnipeg, a colony called
young Iceland" has been formed, says
London Answers.
Russia mas abolished home rule in
Finland, and declared that the Firms
must be liable to the same conscripti
laws as the rest of the Russias. Canada
and the. United States are the gamers.
One hundred and forty thousand Firms
are already in the new world; 100000
have made arrangements to start.
Within a dozen years there will be
very few of Finland's 100000 people
left under the Russian yoke.
Northward no! is the cry of the Ar
menian. Russia may be stern task
master. but better taxes and conscrip.
ton and the press censor, says the
Armenian, than the sword and torch
of the Kurd, backed by his master, the
sultan. Over 100000 Armenians during
the last five years have fled north over
the border into Russia, and tens of
thousands have gone to Greece, Egypt
and other parts of the Mediterranean
coast
In 1871 the European powers guaran-
teed the integrity and independence
of the Turkish empire. Since that date
they have taken from her soc. 900 square
miles and 25,O0o,0OO of her subjects.
Turkey is being pushed southwark and
eastward. She will never be allowed
to sit down in peace till she is across
the sea and grounded in Asia.
Africa is feeling the squeeze of civil
ization. The Tauregs and other Arab
tribes whom she cannot turn into col
onists France is pushing back and back
over thousands of miles of deserts, into
unknown GASES at the back of the Sa-
hara. She had 100000 Arabs in AL
geria under military rule in 1886. Four
hundred thousand of these have al
ready dropped back or moved into Mo-
rocco. At the other end of the CONT
nent the great trek of the Beers in
1885 has been followed by series of
NOV es-on, just ended by the disap-
pearance of most of the irreconcilables
into Portuguese territory.
Algiers holds the remains of BAN
ished nation. The Alsatians who re-
fused to live under German rule in the
conquered provinces of Alsace-Lorraine
were granted 100000 acres of land in
Algiers, and are there snugly settled,
and engaged in vine and wheat grow
ing.
Moving on Chinaman by force is
difficult game. But hold a piece OF
gold before him and he will go to the
worlds end. Hope of gain has moved
over 100000 Cinnamon, most of them
into further India, where the French
possessions in AMMAN now hold more
Cinnamon than natives. The res have
gone to the Philippines, California and
Australia.
The biggest move of modern times is
going on at present in the wild coun-
try between Brazil and Bolivia. ANA.
zonas, as this province is called. is large
ly peopled by gold-diggers and india
rubber collectors, and numbers of the
disaffected from neighboring nations
have been pouring in. They intend
transforming this territory, which is
5000 square miles in extent, into the
new republic of Acre, and hope by SO
doing to secure an immense immigra-
ton of all those who are tired of the
lazy, backward methods of the other
South American states.
Three hundred and thirty-two thou
sand red Indians have travelled from
1000 to $500 miles in the last half
century. The government of the Unit
ed States has been the remorseless DO
hceman who has moved them on ever
westward. In 1880 New York state
had 4,s00 Indians. Their descendants
are now to be found in Iowa, 1000 miles
west. In the same year Mississippi had
$4,000. Their grandchildren live to-day
in the big reservation north of Texas.
Various tribes have been scattered in
different parts of the great country
parallel with the tide of civilization.
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