Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-27
IMMIGRATION To TIE U. S.
DOES NOT LET UP.
During the Year 1907, 1,285,34e Souls
Landed Here-Great Increase over
Previous Records - Thousands of
Japs Landed in Mexico and Finally
Got over the Line.

year ended June 80, 1907, was vastly
greater than in any previous year OF
the history of the United States, ac
cording to the annual report of Frank
p. Sargent, commissioner general o
and naturalization, which |
has been made public. OF this grea |
flood of immigration Commissioner |
Sargent says:
IAN army of 1,2S5,949 souls, drawn
hither by the free institutions and the |
marvellous prosperity Of our country
the chance here afforded every homes
toiler to gain livelihood by the sweat
of his brow or the exercise of his in
lligence-surpasse in numbers the
record of all preceding years"
The immigration for 1907 exceeded
hat for 1906 by 1S4,614, and that TO
905 by 25S,S50, or an increase ovei
906 of more than II per cent, an6
)ver 1905 of more than 25 per cent
During the fiscal year 1906, 12,43
liens were rejected at our ports, dur
ng the past year 49, 64, an increase o
i32; hence the total number of thost
Who have sought admission in 1907
H., !, 1896, 513, exceeds the number who
applied in 1906, viz, 1,113,167 by 1S5
46"
Commissioner Sargent says it is
PARTICULAR significance that many i'm
migrants landed at ports in the soutl
Turing the past year, and he refers es
lecially to a party of 473 Belgians, ex
client types of immigrants, received
1t Charleston S. c., having been il
luced to go there by the state author
ties. The increase of immigration t,
he south, the commissioner says.
irectly connected with the GROWN
esire of the southern states to draw
within their boundaries a number
he better class of immigrants, it be
ng considered by practically all of The
sading men OF the section that tn,
uture development and welfare of tn
'iouth depends upon it's ability to re
ceive and absorb a reliable laborin,
! and farming element. Striking in
creases are also shown at New Orlean
and Galveston.
Twenty-seven countries showed in
creases and II decreases. The tide o
immigration from some of the coun
tries is indicated by the following fig
ures:
Austria-Hungary, 33S,452, increase
1894; Bulgaria, Servia and Montene
> gro. 1859, increase, 669S; France
+. 97S1, increase, JAS; German empire
, 37,S07, increase, |243; Greece, $3.50, il
d, crease, 1901; Italy, including Sicil
p and Sardinia, 2S5, 731, increase, 1851
Russian empire and Finland, 25S,94
, increase. 43,27S; Turkey, 20,767, il
7 crease, 11,257; England, 56,637, il
l crease, TAG; ireland, 1850, decrease
9 465; Scotland, 1870; increase, 1874
D China, 961, increase, 1888; Japan, 80
= 226, increase, 1891; British Mort
America, 1898, increase, 1855
West Indies, 1853, increase, 1898.
Interest naturally attaches to tn
proportionately large immigratio
= from Japan While the exclusion law
f have rendered practically null the in
2 migration from China, tho immigr;
= ton from Japan, while relatively nc
G great, has trebled in the past yea
+ This increase is significant, too, b,
/ cause it mes in the face of the regl
l. lations adopted by the American GOV
eminent with the consent of japan
}, which was hoped would curtail the in
migration of Japanese to this countr
> very materially.
Commissioner Sargent presents e.
cerpts from official reports made to hi
bureau by inspectors sent to Mexic
and Canada to study the situation wit
special reference to the coming @
Japanese to America through thos
countries. The reports show that thol
sands of Japanese landed in Mexic
during the past year and ultimatel
gained admission, surreptitiously, int
this country. Once in the United State
it was Impossible to locate them, el
cept in the rarest instances. Will
! the regulations concerning Japanes
immigra ton have tended to reduce tn
number of regularly admitted imm
q grants, hundreds of Japanese are stil
= coming into the country by stealth.
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