The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-16
NEW RECORDS
FOR IMMIGRATION
WERE MADE DURING THE YEAR
ENDED JUNE 30.
Commissioners SARGENT
In His Annual Report Shows that
1,29s,ooo Aliens Sought Admission
to This Country During
that Year.

Washington, Dec. 16.-lmmigration
TO America during the year ended
June 80, 1907. was vastly greater than
In any previous year of the history of
the United States. This fact with all
it's details, is placed in strong light in
the annual report of Frank p. Sar.
gent, commissioner general of immi-
grafton, made public Sunday.
The immigration for 1907 exceeded
that for 1906 by 1854, and that for
the year 1905 by 25S.S05, or an in.
crease over the year 1906 of more
than IL per cent, and over the year
1905 of more than 20 per cent. Dur.
Ing. the fiscal year 1906. 12,432 aliens
were rejected at our ports; during
the past year 1S,064, an increase of
632: hence the total number of those
who sought admission in 1907, viz,
1,29S,413, exceeds the number who
applied in 1906, which was 1,113,16
by 1S5,246.
Commissioner Sargent says 1t is of
particular significance that many i'm
migrants landed at ports in the south
during the past year and he refers
especially to party of 473 Belgians-
excellent types of immigrants-receiv-
ed at Charleston, s. c., having been in
duced to go there by the state authori-
ties. The increase of immigration to
the south, the commissioner says, sis
directly connected with the growing
desire OF the southern states to draw
within their boundaries a number of
the better class of immigrants"
or peculiar significance is the table
which shows the number of immi
grants from each foreign country, to-
gether with the increases or de
creases as compared with the previ
Gus year Twenty-seven countries
showed increases and II decreases
The tide of immigration from some of
the countries is indicated by the fol-
lowing figures:
Alistria-Hungary .452. increase
1874; Bulgaria, Servia and Monte
negro II ,359, increase 6,693; France
9,73i, increase 345; German empire
81 1907. increase 243; Greece 36,5S0, in
crease 1901 Italy, including Sicily
and Sardinia, 2S5,731. increase 1851;
Russian empire and Finland S,9i3,
increase 43.27S; Turkey 20,766, in
crease H. ,257; England 56,637 increase
7,146; Ireland 34.530, decrease 465;
Scotland 1870, increase 1874: China
961, decrease 5S3; Japan 30.226, in
crease 1891; British North America
1898. increase 1885; West Indies
1869. increase 3.033.
Interest naturally attaches to the
proportionately large immigration
from Japan. While the exclusion laws
have rendered practically nil the i'm.
migration from China, the immigra-
tion from Japan. although relatively
not. great, has trebled in the past
year This increase Is significant, too,
because il comes in the face of regula.
tions adopted by the American gov
ernment, with the assent of Japan,
which, it was supposed. would curtail
the immigration of Japanese to this
country very materially.
Commissioner Sargent presents ex-
cerpts from official reports made to
his bureau by inspectors sent to Mex.
ice and Canada to study the situation
with special reference to the coming
of Japanese to America through those
countries. The reports show that
thousands of Japanese landed in Mex
leo during the past year and ultimate
ly gained admission, ssrreptitiously,
into this country. Once In the United
States 1t was impossible to locate
them except in the rarest instances
While the regulations concerning Jap
anese immigration have tended to re-
duce the number of regularly admit
ted immigrants, hundreds If not thou
sands OF Japanese still are coming
into the country by stealth.
The financial situation OF admitted
aliens is always an interesting sub
ject. OF those admitted, S73,923 had
less than $50 each, while l07 500 were
able to show amounts in excess of
that sum. The total amount of money
brought into the country by arriving
aliens was $25,599, 1893, or an average
Of almost $50 per person.
Of the l3,O6i aliens who We're
turned back during the year, 1,434
were contract laborers. but the num-
hero contract laborers deported dur
ing the past year was 3S per cent
less than in the preceding year.