Arizona republican., 1905-03-27
Conditions Governing EurO-
 pedn Emigration
BRITISH BOARD OF TRADE
It Has Issued an Elaborate Document Giving as Principal Reasons, Ex- banding Labor Market in America and Persecution in Europe.

Washington, March 26.-(SpeciaL)- Emigration from the European coun- tries to the United States and other countries Of the world is discussed at considerable length in a British pub Iication which has just reached the department of commerce and labor through its bureau of statistics The discussion in question is part of an elaborate document issued by the British board of trade, the title of the chapter which discusses emigration being: Emigration from the Chief European Countries" The following extracts from the discussion present the more important of it's conclusions, and especially those which relate to the United States:
 "The migration of population from one country to another is affected by a number of complex causes. The whole volume of migration. of course depends largely on the distribution throughout the world of density of population. climatic advantages, and wealth of natural resources. together with facilities of communication be- tween the more and less densely settled and naturally favored regions.
 AS regards the volume and direction l of the movement from any particular | country. much depends not only on the natural resources and field of employ ! ment. but also on the national temper ament and characteristics, the stand ard of living of the people, and the eX- | istence in over sea countries of popu- lations of similar or kindred charac- ter.
 "So far as emigration is purely economic movement the main factors ! re1te f5-l volume are tNve-the state of the labor market in the country from which the emigrant starts and the state of the labor market in the country to which he goes. But emigration is by no means an exclusively economic move ment. Other causes, such as political or religious persecution, have operated in many well known cases to encourage the transfer of population from one country to others. Broadly speaking 1 however the economic element in mi grafton is usually by far the most inn portant and even in the case of emil grafton to escape burdensorne laws (e g.. the Russian Jews or German so- cialsts), the time and direction of the omevment is determined largely bS changes in the labor market in over sea countries.
 "A study of fluctuations in commer- ciaI activity and employment in the principal countries leads to the conclu- sion that among the principal advanced commercial countries the general wave! of imitation and depression are to z considerable, and perhaps growing
 extent simultaneous, though the effec of these wide movements of expansion and contraction may be often complt- cated and disguised in the case of par
 ticular countries by purely local causes e. E. the effect of a war or other dis
 turbance, the discovery of gold or min eral resources. good or bad harvests and so fortt. To these local variations
 in the economic conditions affecting ] emigration arc to be added the loca
 political causes already adverted to
 which may tend at one time or anothe f to stimulate or retard the migration O
 population.
 ''These considerations would lead IL
 to expect that the total volume of emi
 grafton (say) from all European coun . tries will follow some more or less de finite law depending on the state of in dustrial activity in the world generally
 and especially in the over-sea coun tries which are the chief recipients O l emigrants. while the flow from and t' particular countries will be also affect ed by local and special circumstances which in many cases may be even nor important. Examples, both of the gen eral and local factors in emigration Continued on Page 2.