Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-04-27

If there is one place the newly-ar-
rived immigrant is not needed 1t is
in the large cities where large por-
ton of the incoming horde has shown
a tendency to herd. Especially is this
true of New York, where over eight
tenths of the immigration to this coun-
try is landed. This concentration OF
the multitudes from every nation and
cline in the already congested portion
of the city is a disease-breeding and
crime condition, and is
doing more to delay the healthy as
sanitation OF the immigrant and him
der his development into useful
American citizen than any other cir
cumstance. Concentration of the
newly-arrived foreign element in the
large cities of the country is real
menace to the future of those cities
and the country at large. The
federal government has long real
lied this and has at last deter
mined on steps looking to a correc-
ton of this tendency. Instead of con-
centration We are to have dissemina-
ton. Instead of letting them take
root in the cities to grow up a foreign
plant in American soil, the effort is
| to be made to broadcast them over the
sections of the country where better
living can be had for them and where
their Americanization will be made
more easy and certain.
The plan devised under the direc-
! ton of Frank p. Sargent, commission
er general of immigration, is to estab-
! lish division of information under
the immigration bureau, whose pur-
pose shall be to place the immigrant
coming to this country in the place
| where he is needed and wanted. 1t is
expected that this new department will
be ready to begin work by the first of
July, and already useful information
regarding the resources, products and
physical characteristics of each state
and territory is being gathered and
tabulated, preparatory to being pub
lished in different languages so that
il may be placed in the hands OF the
incoming aliens as soon as they land
and may aid them in choosing A place
and a destiny in the wonderful prom
ised land to which they have come
with such expectant hope.
AS a further means of bringing
states that want immigrants, and i'm
migrants that want homes into touch
with each other the plan further pro-
vices that the states and territories
will be permitted to send to the immi-
grant stations agents who shall be
given access to all newly admitted
aliens These official promoters will
point out to the newcomers the spc
cial inducements for settlement offered
by their respective states.
Some of the states, particularly
those Of the south, already maintain
immigration bureaus, and these viii
appoint the agents sent to the immi
grant stations. Other states desirinl
immigrants are expected to organize
such bureaus before July /. Practical
" the whole of this educational cam
paign will be waged at the Ellis Island
station. New York. Through it's port
ais passed last year $4,000 of tn
1867 900 aliens admitted to this lane
of ours.
i, How very badly immigrants ar,
! wanted in many sections of the soutl
= and west is disclosed in the urgen
Q appeals which Mr.. Sargent has beel
n receiving. These come especially from
4 agriculturalsts, mine owners, MANI
q facturers and railroad officials. A ma
iority of our immigrants are pourin
: into the sections where they are leas
>. wanted and where the least chance c
, work awaits them, while they ar
n avoiding the sections where the
I. would be welcomed with open arm
Z nd given remunerative employment
g Just how this is will be seen by tn
Z. figures for last year. Over sever
- tenths of those passing through tn
~ immigrant stations said they were g
& ing to settle in already thickly pop
lated centers, and all of this while tn
clamor for immigrants was comm
from thinly populated districts Owe
4. one-third of these aliens said the
:. were going to make their abodes
"a New York state; more than one-sixt
* in Pennsylvania, and one-twelgth
er Illinois. Almost as many declar;
ie themselves bound for Massachlseti
H. and next ranked New Jersey.
- The south in particular wants INN
= grafton now. Formerly 1t desire
10 nothing less. It's change of sentime
on this subject has been both rcce
and marked. 1t offers splendid fie
n. for the newcomer with Drawn al
energv III has millions of acres