The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25

always increases. Inquiry develops
the fact that many foreigners visit
their old homes at intervals. When
ever there is strike at the coal
mines, or at any of the large works
where foreigners are employed, there
Is an immediate exodus for Europe,
Surely this is land of plenty when
1t rewards the alien laborer with a
living for himself, assistance for his
absent loved ones, and holiday excur-
sions across the Atlantic.
Last year we attracted more i'm
migrants from Italy than from any
other nation. Now, how does this
wonderful United States compare with
that country from which they came?
Italy has a public debt of 1855 per
capita; the United States has a ma
tional debt of $11.51 per capita. Italy
has money circulation per capita of
1915, while the United tSates has a
money circulation of $33.OS per capita.
In other words, should direct and
immediate tax be levied for the pay
ment of our national debt Ian impossi-
BILE contingency used merely for il
lustration) the United States could
pay off its obligation and have bal
ance of $2157 per capita, while Italy.
If she paid the whole amount of money
in circulation, would still owe s68.1O
per capita, or about four-fifths of her
whole debt
A good illustration of the number
OF people coming to this county from
Italy may be had by the following
statement: if the immigration into
the United States from Italy last year
had been followed by an emigration
from the United States to any other
country in the same proportion, and
all these emigrants had gone from
the city of Chicago, there would now
be only sixty-three residents in the
great metropolis of the Middle West,
Since the foundation of our republic
the magic of its name has drawn 25.-
100000 men and women across the
seas. If they had all come from
Spain, Sweden and Norway, there
wouldn't be single inhabitant left
today in the three kingdoms mention
ed. The movement to America is
distinguished from all other migra-
lions In that it has drawn, not driven.
The great intraeuropean migrations.
the "folk-wandering" of the fifth and
sixth centuries of the Christian era,
that resulted in the overthrow of the
Roman empire by the German tribes.
was movement of the chieftains who
forced their serfs and retainers to
aid them to strike out for victory and
spoils, but the tide of home-seekers
that has swept to America was 4
movement inspired by the individual
seeking to better his condition. He
has come from Europe by the millions,
and yet so great Is the land which
receives him that while Europe has
ia persons to the square mile of ter
ritory, North America has but thirteen,
and the United States proper but
twenty-six persons to the square mile.
In searching history for some COM
parison of migration, it seems that the
pilgrimage of the Israelites was the
first great trek" of which we have
an authentic account. 1t is believed
that there were about a million souls
involved in that movement, which
lasted forty years. During a similar
period the United tSates has attracted
100000 homesekers, so that as
drawing card our country seems to
outrank Canaan by 20 to 1,
Caleb and Jonhua told the Iraelites
the promised land was so rich that