The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-29
IMMIGRATION


There are matters OF considerable interest in the immigration
people abroad United There also greater
es in the personnel OF these immigrants because this latter may in
population policy
done in the past quite considerably and may be the future
and Ireland that the immigration FROM then the tide OF German
immigration gradually and overlapping the numbers
England Ireland and Scotland and then during the last de-
Vades flood has from Italy, Austria Hungary and Russia
We possess complete record of immigration into the United
States from the 1920 Before that time record kept The
keeping record was due to an act OF Congress passed 1919 I'm
migration had been growing 1917 and Congress felt that
legislation necessary prevent the overcrowdng OF vessels cross
ing Atlantic While passing necessary regulations clause
added which provided for Of the immigrants and
Collectors ordered collect the information and
init the Secretary of State is this which the foundation
OF the information that exists.
Prior the number of immigrants rather the total arrivals
were estimated NOT counted The hest estimates nuts the total arrivals
1916 100000 Up 1886 the figures
give total arrivals without dividing transient passengers and real
immigrants Subsequently to that date alien passengers we're separate
y counted and immigrants counted only but in the
upon nationality both and immigrants mixed together
After 1867 all statistics refer immigrants only and the subject OF
transient passengers dropped entirely
In 1920 the number of alien transient and immigrant
1885 For the fiscal year 1908 number of immigrants
specve Of transient passengers 857o6 hundred times
many reported eighty years previously The
proach to this in the 1882 when 8899 immigrants entered
the United States AT the of the discussion of the annexation OF
these islands the United States when had population of little
than 100000 used to be amusing to read learned articles writ
ten apparently good faith the terrible effect that that number
would have upon the general population OF the Republic The writer's
seemed utterly obvous OF the fact that alien and in
ignorant population pouring their Atlantic shores at the
rate of some millions every decade
The deCennia period
1881 $780, during which time 524663 entered the country Dur
grafton from the Orient from 1871 1880 when
Chinese entered the United States The previous decade gave
and the following decade 67II The immigration from China there
fore has been large and have had little real nu
upon the country.
We can trace the influence both upon social life and
political life and methods of immigrants from Ireland from Scotland
England and from Germany Each has made nebe mark
Now that the tide of immigration has changed and the of mm
grants coming from Austria Hungary Italy and Russia entirely
different influence work. The influences from
the British Isles and from Germany
but the influences from Southern Europe by
while the influences from Russia anagonc. The results of
will work time but they will tell in the future
similar influences have told in the past The Republic
has advantage the amagamaon of language The Hun
gaan the Italian and the Russian become English speaking
couple and when he becomes English speaking he be-
American thinking These nationat WILL therefore, have
probably less influence the social the political lie the
naonaies which during the earlier middle of
last century,
From there marked variations in the number CT
immigrants The influential factor immigration says tine
of the Industrial Commission the prosperity of the country.
The country especially prosperous 1882 1t phenomenal
for immigrants In 1892 when the again
up immigration In 1874 the after the panic down
to bb and steadily declined The fact that has been
still phenomenal year for immigrants may be taken another
indication of our phenomenal prosperity