Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-20
Government
Paternalisna

it's own interests, as we'll as the interests
of the immigrant. has not discovered that
behind the organ grinder and his monkey
the fruit vender and the shoe black and
barber who infest American cities-occu-
pations which have given the Italian de-
probation and disfavor-there may be
found the farm laborer and the horticul-
turist qualities which render him pre-
ciols acquisition.
The Avanti and the Tribuna follow with
much interest the disQueting exodus, and
they confess that in the Basilicate ana
the Calabria 10 per cent and II PER cent
of the emigrants are agrculturists. In
some villages, indeed none but aged men
and women and the carabiniers, remain
NJ Chic claims that the proportion OF
emigrants who abandon the midi without
any intention of returning may be placed
at 66.T7 per cent of the population (all
agriculturistsl. and he adds that 1t is not
astonishing that in the south of Italy
there is no labor, the small farmer mas
disappeared. the land is waste.
The immigration in America from ISL
to 1905 of all nationaities was 23 1oo.G92
individuals; from 1901 to 1903 it amounted
to 3,S2:s, OI6. In the period from 1921 to
1905 italy is represented by 2,003,5I4. and
from 1851 to 1903 by 9.9,I6S which shows
that the phenomenal atfluence of Italians
to America is recent. L ne relative pro-
portion OF the emigration to the United
States during the five years from 1901 to
1865 was as follows: From France, 31.419;
from Scotland, 3s,Si2; from England,
155343; from Germany. 116,395; from Ire
land. 1874 O.j6; from Sweden and Norway,
PSI ,GT2; from Russia Poland and Finland.
GGS 49,; from Austria Hungary, Dol, 239;
from Italy, ~, 76S; from other countries,
395 ,967; total 3,S33,0I6.
During the five years the augmentation
of the Italian emigration was constant.
except for the year 1904,
Ev+ep+ IF after which it resumed
it's increase.
Emigration. The commissary gen
eral of Italy gives for the year 1905 the
number of emigrants to the United States
as POI 40 while the United States i'm
migration bureau shows for the same year
226.32O Italians, which signifies that the
clandestine emgration may be placed at
5000.
The United States authorities exact that
the immigrant shall possess a certain sum
of money before landing. The average
amounts possessed in 1898. according to
nationality, were as follows: English,
1910; German. $G0.55; Italian, s22.6S;
Hungarian. $1S; Pole, $l5.
The fixed and permanent Italian popula-
ton in the United States at the end of
1905 was estimated at 1,2iS332. On 1900
it was I42. 1919 Since 1901 to 1904 the
emigration to the United States was 49,,
$50.
More than two-thirds of the Italian pop
ulation reside in the eastern cities. New
York contains a population of 10000,
thus more Italians than any city In Italy.
except Naples, which in 1900 numbered
494 1914
All provinces in the kingdom of Italy
contribute to tn" exodus. which is esti-
mated at a million in one year, or pc"
cent of the total population.
There are great colonies of Italians in
South America and Brazil. Many of these
return to Italy and settle down with their
small fortunes to cultivate the soil, which
is dear to them in the sense that the
American does not nor cannot appreciate.
Others send small sums regularly to
friends and family left behind. and the
post offices in America, as those in France
and Switzerland. testify to the econ
omies of this thrifty, Woodworking people.
The Italian government is not ignorant
of the mutation which Is going on, and
has undertaken to check it. but on the