The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-16
Remarkable Growth of Country by Assimilation of For eigners in Past
 Year.
1,285, 349 NEW IMMIGRANTS
Brought With Them S256OO OO0-- Austria Hungary Leads List Japan's Delegation Has
 TrebIcd.

Washington, Dec. 15.-lmmigration to America during the year ended June 30, 1907, was vastly greater than in any previous year in the history of the United States, This fact, with all it's interesting ard important details, is placsd in strong light in the annual report of Frank F Sargent, commis- sioner general of immigration and naturalization, which was made pub- lie to-day. Commissioner Sargent says
 'fAn army of 1,2S5,3i9 souls, they have come drawn hither by tho free institu tions and the marvellous prosperity of our country
 The report contains in tahulated form every phase of information bear ing upon the question of immigration, and in submitting this carefully conn piled data, Mir. Sargent says.
 The immigration for the year 1907 exceeded that of 1906 by 1S4,614, and that for the year 1905 by 25SS50, or an increase of over the year 1906 of more [ than r per cent, and over the year 1905 of more than 25 per cent During the fiscal year 1906, i2.4S2 aliens were rejected at our ports; during the past lyear 13,064, an increase of 632; hence the total number of those who have sought admission in 1907 viz, 1,29S, 4lS, exceeds the number who applied in 1908, viz. 1,llSl67, by lS5,246-"
 Commissioner Sargent says it is, of particular significance that many inl- migrants landed at ports in the south during the past year He refers es7 lpecially to 8 party of i97 Belgians-an excellent type of immigrants landing 1 at Charleston, s. C., having been in- Iduced to go there by the state author- Eities. The increase of immigration to 1 the south, the commissioner Says, 'fs directly connected with the growing desire of the southern states to draw within their boundaries a.nviaher of l the better class of ir5tnigIants "s-.7.
 or peculiar significance is the table l which shows the number of Immigrants from each foreign country, together with the, increase or decreases as eom-
 parad with the previous year Twenty seven countries showed their increases and eleven decreases, The tide of inn migration from som of the countries is indicated by the following figures:
 Austria Hungard, SSS452, increase 73, : si4; Bulgaria Servia and Montenegro, I t.S59, increase s,693; France, 9,73l, in- i crease S45; German empire, S1S0T; in 1 crease 24S; Greece, 96,5S0, increase IT,
 691 Italy, including sicily and Sardina
 2S5,7s1, Increase 12.6ll, Russian empire
 and Finland. 25s,94S, increase 4S,27Si
 Turkey, 20,767, increase, 1t,251 Eng land 5e,6S7, increase 7.146; Ireland, S4
 530, decrease 465; Scotland, l9,T49, in. I crease S,s74 China, 96t, decrease 5Sst Japan, 90, 226, increase l6,S9l British
 North America, ig,9lS, increase 14,s55
 West Indie, t6,6Ss. increase S,03S.
 Interest naturally attaches to tht
 proportlonately large immigration iron Japan. While the exclusion laws hay,
 rendered practically nil the immigra
 tion from China, the immigration iron
 Japan. although relatively not great
 has trebled in the past year, This in crease is significant too, because i 
 comes in the face of regulations adopt
 ed by the American government, witt
 the assent of Japan, which, it was sup
 posed. would curtail the imn1igraNol
 of Japanese to this country Very ma
 terially
 It's chief interest to the people of tn
 United states consists in the question
 as to whether or not our ability as 1
 race 10 absorb foreign clements is no on the verge, at least of being over
 taxed
 The total amount of money brough into the country by arriving aliens wa $25, 509 S93, or an average of almost $2 } per person.
 | A table showing the outward passen 7 ger. movement was greater than in an, preceding year for which statistics ar l available The total number of eabi f passengers was 224,S93 and other thal , cabin 344,9S9, The aggregat. numbe S of outward bound passengers, 569,SS! $ was 73,145 larger than in 1906.