The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-12-14
COMING TO AMERICA.
TIDE OF IMMIGRATION FROM
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
London Newspapers View OF the
Reception OF Newcomers to
the States and
Canada.

Canada.
r. The human Niagara flowing from all
lands into the United States Is. if mere
volume be considered, the most re-
markable phenomenon Of the sort
known to history saws the London Mail.
In 1904 Sl2,S7O immigrants landed on
the shores of the states an average of
nearly 10000 every week or more than
2000-the population Of a docent-szed
tOwn-every day. But this flood Of inn
migration is of very mixed and doubt
fu quality. It is made up largely of the
cheap races Of Europe; nearly one.
fourth could neither read nor write; the
vast majority Of them had only a few
coins In their pockets The bulk of
these immigrants poured into the great
cities and settled down there as a sort
of human sediment, under conditions
which recall the Ghetto Of ancient
Rome They congest the iails 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. In
his last report the commissioner Of inn
migration laments almost tearfully over
the failure OF the government to pro-
vide for the distribution of aliens
ha - NJ 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
ing them melting into the common clti-
zenship of the United States. The un-
stable element in the politics Of The
United States is simply the dyspepsia
caused by the presence of so much un-
digested. not to say undigestible, mate
rial in its population.
The immigration into Canada. as far
as volume is concerned is only ripple
which may well become a tide. Canada
is being advertised as though II 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 $1,000 settlers 10
give up the exhausted farm lands Of
New England and of some Of the west
ern states and betake themselves 10
Manitoba.
Canada does not spoOn-feed her immi-
grants. sle does not buy them. The
average cost TO the dominion is little
over el per head for each settler. and
this is mainly expended in advertising.
But If money Is not wasted on the inn
migrants. nothing else is denied to them.
The government clothes itself, to an al
most amusing degree, with all the
functions Of a providence for the great
host of intending settlers crowding into
its ports. A great steamboat with 800
immigrants on board moors for ex-
The immigrants are marched in process
sion down a long passage. and betwiXt
narrow raiings 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 a 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'
ticing the rudiments Of farming; while
the government continues 10 watch
over him, supply him with paternal ad
vice and encouragement and, II neces'
sary, seed corn--everything, indeed, ex
cent cash.