The Irish standard., 1906-05-05

Sli. the government selected him to
undertake. the work and in thr1e wears
he mad" Il thriving agricultural region
OF TN" province. sending in Germans
from Galicia. Hungary. Russia inI
lt"umani;. Completing this task, he
became director OF the stccrugc depart
mcnt OF the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company and In that ,:tpuc-
ity has visited all the corners of Eu-
rope. as we'll as South American coun-
tries aud most of the American States.
rs America to expect Il million new
residents from Europe every year," hc
WAS asked.
America may always expect to re-
reivc Il big army of Immigrants from
Europe" he said. but not Il million IL
year. The high water mark has been
reached. Last year established what
probably always will be- the record, al
though 1906 will see but IL slight falling
off There We're plenty of causes for
the remarkable exodus from Europe
last year and for the continued out
pouring of the first few months of 1906.
In THE first place the failure of the
crop III Hungary in 1901 caused Il great
many IIunsarians to rmigratc to Amer
lea. and the lack of settled government.
aided. The chief cause, however, was
the political disturbances in Russia.
i'ut conditions have rightcd themselves
in Il large measure now. and hcnccfOrth
thrr" will be but Il steady. healthy flow
of Europeans to American shores
New York need not worry about tho
immigration OF the future. The Euro
l'canS who come to America in thu.
stccragc are beginning to learn that
there is an America that is not New
York. and t" realize that in the great
stretches of country to the south nnI
west there are limitlcss opportunities
for the man of thrift who wishes to
| establish 81 home of his own and is
| willing I" toll :tnd thrive to do it, The
great part of the army which will
swarm into America in the next few
years Will check its baggage straight
| through the port of entry, be ii New
York. Philadelphia. Baltimore or Boston
and will pass on to the rich states
| which lie back of them.
ITO practically every lmmigran, and
to all their fellows at home America
| has always been New York, They
| picture Il great sw;irmng city, Il little
stretch Of farm land and forest. and
thcn-Chicago. Boston Philadelphia
l'itlsburg mean little to the,n-they
| have heard the names and they suggest
| factories :tnd tccming hives OF human
lty. Little has the peasant population
"f Germany realized that Texas alone
/ is larger than their entire country and
l'lt thcre are dozens OF states of fertile
soil uncultvatcd because there is no
one to cultivate them.
1.-TWO years ago made my first trip
to Ancric:L In the interest of our steer
age service ana l then found that
New York. Chicago. Boston. st. Louis,
Kansas City and {: dozen other cities
were overcrowded with foreigners and
that the tides of immigration should
DE directed to the rural sections of the
country. The whole question was
taken up by the management of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Com
pany, and as Il result we established
line direct from Bremen to Gal
weston, Texas. Our first boat to that
port carried fifteen immigrants; our
last one. which landed only a few
days ago. carried LOO. To enable the
immigrants to get to the interior of
the country without trouble we ar
range their transportation direct from
Bremen to any inland destination.
$50 successful has the service to
Texas proved that l shall recommend
on my return the cstablishmenz of :,
new line to New Orleans, this being
the gateway to the great AGRICULTURAL
states of Louisiana, Georgia, Missis-
sippi and Alabama. Nowhere so much
as in the Southern States should there
be desire to turn the streams of i'm
| migration into the South. Those states
need good farmers and hundreds of
/ thousands Of them will arrive in Amer