The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-28


Largest Immigration.
IT VIII De noticed said Dir. Robson
that the total number OF immigrants
landed al the four ports mentioned
during 1906 was 1.m2,242 have not
the exact figures OF the number ar
rivlng at Boston, but it runs about tbe
same as Baltimore Philadelphia receives
about half as many anu probably 58e0
come into this country through Canadian
ports. Then there are arrivals az San
Francisco and other ports. The total
therefore, will BIZ more than Ij58,o9. rs
compared with L0-I10 in the year 1905.
which was The banner year up 10 that
time In fact the arrivals duri8s each
OF The last four years have been greater
than 40 amy time prior thereto.
what ara hmm Migrant l. WORTH.
some time ago. the Commissioner of
Immigration i1 New York State figured
out chat me average economic value OF
an able-bodied -nalc immigrant oyer
twenty years OF age is S.125 IL 20 per
cent Cf The total number come under thar
classification, the wealth of ihis country
cau Doe said 10 have increased the enorm-
ous sam of about $3.50 0eO0 last year
through tile arrival of immigrants alone
No wonder that some Of the European
countries are very much concerned over
this loss OF their citizens. ia IJ8ly for
instance. The steamship lines are pro-
hibited from using any methods OF pub
Lefty calculated 10 encourage emigration.
Whoever adVertlsas hy circulars or hand
bills. or anything Of the sort. matters
tending 90 encourage emigration is sub
But what IS their Joss is our gain
Italy sends Rig Proportion.
$50 far as / can judge from the figures
in my possession. a larger number Of i'm
migrants now come from Italy than any
other country For several years past
the bulk Of immigration has come from
three cou1tries-Aus tFia-Huuea Rus
STA Including Fiulandl. and Italy. Great
Britain stiH sends a great many immi-
grants. but I am inclined 20 think that
large proportion of the arrivals reported
as Briushers are really persons Of other
nati0ualiues. and that the error arises
though the practice OF transportation
companies on the Continent OF sending
heir third-class passengers To London and
reshlpp.ng them from there 10 this Coun-
try.
Turn Them Into south's Farmlands.
Farm laborers form about oue-teath
of the total number OF immigrants. skill
ed I2borers about the same proportion.
servants about one-eighth. unskiled lab
orers about one-ffh. 1 am great be-
hevsr in the project nOw under way
TO divert the movement of immigration
from our cities O. the fdrmlands OF the
country. If we could turn into the farm
ing lands of the South q few hundred
thousand immigrants from continental
countries and from Great Britain, where
farm laborers have been taught 10 utilize
every iucr of ground, IL We could have
these economical. industrious faithful
employees supplaut ana supplement the
more and more unsatisfactory every year,
il would he Of incalculable benefit 90 the
Southern States.
steerage and Cabin de Luxe.
I've hear some talk of this country's
immigration problem. So far as there is
any problem il is due % the congestion
of the immigrants In our large cities
Spread them out in the country and they
viii become most useful citizens. A man
10 my position soon learns 20 discount
the talk of the immigration problem.
anyhow, for be finds that the man who
comes over i'm the steerage to-day is the
one who goes back in a cabin dc luxe
few years from now