The Forrest City times., 1905-12-08
COMING TO AMERICA
TIDE OF IMMIGRATION FRoE
 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
London Newspapers View of ths Reception of Newcomers to the States and
 Canada.

The human Niagara flowing from all lands into the United States is, if mere volume be considered, the mos. re- markable phenomenon of the sore known to history. says the London Mail In 1901 12.S7o immigrants landed on the shores of the states. an average Of nearly i6,000 every week, or more than 2,000-the population of a dccent-sized town-every day. But this flood of im- migration Is of a very mixed and doubt full quality. II is made up largely of the cheap races of Europe; nearly one fourth could neither read nor write; tho vast ma jority of them had only few coins in their pockets. The bulk or these immigrants poured into the great cities and settled down there as sort of human sediment, under conditions which recall the Ghetto of ancient Rome. They congest the jails and the insane asylums of the United states. or they form separate colonies within the boundary of the states, with social and political ideals Of their own, and refuse to melt into the general population. h his last report the commissioner of in- migration laments almost tearfully over "the failure of the government to pre- vide for the distribution of alen& throughout the United States" and he charges foreign powers with spending large sums of money and employing many agents in the business of keeping their subjects together as separate colonies on American soil and prevent iNn I,a, in tltn bn cor 1,pn atft. zenship of the United States. The un- stable element in the politics of ths United States Is simply the dyspepsia caused by the presence of so much un- digested not to say undigestible, mate rial in it's population.
 The immigration into Canada. as far as volume is concerned. is only ripple which may well become tide. Canada is being advertised as though it were | patent medicine. It's agencies are scat tered all over Europe; they invade the United States itself. and last year per suaded no fewer than 45,000 settlers to give up the exhausted farm lands of New England and of some of the west ern states and betake themselves tn Manitoba.
 Canada does not spoonfeed her immi- | grants. She does not buy them. The average cost to the dominion is littie over { Der head for each settler, and | this r mainly expended in advertising | But If money is not wasted on the im- migrants. nothing else is denied to them | The government clothes itself, to an al- most amusing degree, with all the | functions of providence for the great
 host of intending settlers crowding infO
 it's ports. X great steamboat with 1,50a
 immigrants on board moors. for ex-
 ample alongside the port at Quebec.
 The immigrants are marched in process sion down a long passage. and betwixt | narrow railings they are checked
 classed and medically examined almost
 without being conscious of the process
 Long trains with open doors are wait
 ing along the platform. and in period
 of time incredibly brief. the immigrants. in family groups. are packed into the | train and moved off.
 When the destination is at last
 reached there are government agents,
 with maps of the district and vehicles
 in which to drive the intending settler round to make his choice. At cost Of time and money incredibly small the immigrant is then planted on his home stead block or his quarter section of | purchased land and finds himself prac-
 tlclng the rudiments of farming; while the government continues to watch over him, supply him with paternal ad- | vice and enc0urapement and if peeaS- sary. seed corn-eyerything indeed, ex- | cept cash.
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