The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-16
HORDES FROM
old COUNTRY
COMING HERE
laps to Number of Thousands
Also Stealing Over the Line
From Old Mexico.
COMMISSIONER REPORTS
SOME STARTLING FACTS
WHOLE WORLD INTERESTED IN
IMMIGRATION MOVEMENT AND
CONFERENCE is SUGGESTED.

Washington. Dec. 15.-Immigration
to America during the year ended June
80. 3O7, was vastly greater than in any
previous year i'm the history of the
United States, according To the annual
report of Frank p. Sargent, commits
sioner general of immigration and ma
turalization which was made public
today. OF this great flood of immigra-
ton Commissioner Sargent says:
AN army of 12S5.349 souls has come,
drawn hither by the free institutions
and the marvellous prosperity of our
cOuntry-the chance here afforded
every honest toiler TO gain a livelihood
by the sweat of his brow or the exer-
else Of his intelligence surprising in
numbers the record of ali preceding
years.
The immigration for 1907 exceeded
that for 1906 by 1S4.S14. and that of 1905
by 358,S50. or an increase over 1905 of
more than Il per cent, and over 1903 Of
more than % per cent During the
fiscal year 1906. 2.432 aliens were re
jected at our ports during the past
year, and during 1905 13, 1874, an increase
of 1872; hence the total number Of those
who have sought admission in 1907.
viz. f.29S.513 exceeds the number who
applied in 1906, viz. l,1l3,l6 by 1885.
Increase at the South.
Commissioner Sargent says it is of
particular significance that many i'm
migrants landed at ports in the south
duriag the past year, and he refers es-
pecially TO 4 party of 473 Belgians-eX-
cellent types of immigrants-receiVe
at Charleston. 5. c. having been in
arH~f nfarar
ties. The increase of immigration to
the south, the commissioner says. is
directly connected with the growing
desire of the southern states to draw
within their boundaries a number Of
the better class of immigrants, il being
considered by practically all of the
leading men Of the section that the flu
ture development and welfare of the
south depends upon its ability to re-
ceive and absorb d reliable laboring
and farming element. Striking in
creases are also shown at Nav Or
leans, Galveston and Honolulu.
Tide of immigration.
Twenty-seven countries show in
creases and eleven decreases. The tide
of immigration from some of the coun-
tries is indicated by the following fig
ures; Austria, 33S, 452; increase, 72,314-
Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro. H.
359; increase, 6,693 France, 9.731; in
crease, 345. German empire, 37.S07; in
crease. 243. Greece. 36,5S9; increase,
1901. Italy, including Sicily and Sar-
DINA, 2S5, 731; increase. 1851. Russian
empire and Finland. 258943; increase,
43,27S. Turkey, 20,767; increase, 1887.
England. Sc, 637; increase, 7,146; ireland,
"a. $50; decrease. 465: Scotland. 10. 740;
increase, 1874. China, 961: increase,
5S3. japan, 80, 226; increase, II, 391; Brit
ish North America, 1898; increase,
14.S55. West Indies, 1869; increase,
$685.
Horde of Japs.
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 immigration
from Japan, while relatively small, has
treDled in the past year. This increase
is significant, too, because it comes in
the face of the regulations adopted by
the American government, with the as
sent of Japan, which it was supposed
would curtail the immigration of Jap
anese to this country very materially
Commissioner Sargent presents ex-
cerpts from official reports made to his
bureau by inspectors sent to Mexico
and Canada TO study the situation with
special reference to the coming of Jap
anese to America through those cOun-
tries. The reports show that thou
sands of japanese landed in Mexico
during the past year and ultimately
gained admission, surreptitiously, into
this country. Once i'm the United
States. it is impossible to locate them
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