Arizona republican., 1905-03-27
WHY THEY LEAVE
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this memorandum.
 "A few of the leading results may | be thus briefl, summarized:
 "Since 1876 Cthe first year for which | the statistics of net British emigration | can be given) there have been two i great periods Of activity in European emigratfon, the first beginning about : 1880 and lasting for the succeeding ten or twelve years. and the second begin l ming about 1899 or 1900 and still con- tinuing. Separating these periods was a period of comparative stagnation. | from 1893 to 1898. Thus the recorded 1 emigration from the principal Euro | pean countries for which continuous records are available was 590,0O0 in | 1882; in 1894 it was only 234,000 in 1902 1 it had risen to 641 ,O00. Though by no means the whole of this stream is di- l rected to the United States, the alter mating periods of imitation and depres- 1 sion in America have been the most potent single factor in the situation. The financial and industrial collapse of 1893 suddenly diminished the capacity of America to absorb labor. This was followed by the great increase of in dustrial activity which began in 1899. 'In the former of the two periods or activity Great Britain and Germany contributed large numbers of the mi grants to America In the latter period however these countries no longer sup piled any large proportion of these migrants. who were largely contrtbut- ed by Italy. Austria Hungary, and Russian Poland. The total volume of British emigration to all destinations did not diminish in proportion to the fall in such emigration to America, but found, to some extent, other fields within the empire. German emigra- ton. on the other hand. has largely diminished while that from Italy and Austria Hungary has very rapidly in creased.
 "In order to bring out the great change which has taken place in recent years in the character of these sources. il is of interest to compare the two periods 1ST9-1SS2 and 1S991903, which were the two periods of greatest ex- pansion of immigration into the United States within the series of years cov- cred by the table. It so happens that the tota! volume of increase was prac- ticalIy the same in the two cases, viz. 5440OO in the three years 1ST9-1SS2. and 545, 900 in the four years 1S99-1903, but tho sources from which the in- creased supplies Of labor were drawn differed very widely.
 "In the early eighties the great in crease of immigration into the United States was mainly accounted for by the following countries:
 Increase in
 1882 compar- Group T: ed with 1879 Germany . 216 900 United Kingdom ...........129,OO 900 Sweden ........ ............. 54,000
 Total of above ............ Sss. .OOO or nearly three quarters of the whole increase.
 Tn the last revival of immigration into the United States the principal clements were very different:
 Increase in
 1903 compar- Group II: ed with 1899 Italy ..........153.OO .OO0 Austria Hungary ...... .....144,oOO Russia dncluding PolanO =. 75,OOO
 Total of above S72 900 or over two-th!rds of the whole in- crease.
 "The change of sources from which the population of the United States is recruited is even more clearly brought out when we show the relative contri- buttons of the countries of Groups l and II to tha total increase of immi- grafton in the two periods compared: 1882 1903
 compared compared with 1879 with 1899 ! Total increase ..... 544 900 545,OOO | Increase from coun-
 tries of Group l.. 399,000 SO,OOo 1 Increase from coun-
 l tries of Group II. 6s.OOO S72,OOO 1 "Tn other words the expanding Unit 1 ed tntcs labor market now exercises l it's chief attractions on the populations l of south and eastern Europe-south Italians. Hungarians, Poles and Jews from eastern EurOpe-in place of the l Teutonic races of northern Europe"