The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-20
NEW COMERS AGGREGATE MORE
THAN ONE AND ONE
QUARTER MILLIONS
SOUTH SHOWS GAINS
COMMISSIONER SARGENT ADvO.
GATES AN INTERNATIONAL I'M.
MIGRATION CONFERENCE.


lea during the year ended June 80,
1907. was vastly greater than in any
previous year of the history of the
United States, according to the an
nual report Of Frank p. Sargent, COM
missioner general of immigration and
naturalization, which has been made
public, OF this great flood of immi-
grafton Mr.. Sargent says:
"An army of 1,25S,3l9 souls, that
have come, drawn hither by the free
institutions and the marvellous pros
perity of our country-the chance
here afforded every honest toiler to
gain liylihood by the sweat of his
| brow or the exercise Of his intell-
| gence surprising in number the rec
ord Of all preceding years.
| The immigration for 1907 exceeds
/ that for 1906 by 1864 and that for
] 1908 by 25S,S5O, or an increase over
1906 of more than seventeen per cent.
and over 1905 of more than twenty
| five per cent. During the fiscal year
| 1906 l2,i32 aliens were rejected at
our ports: during the past year 49,
/ 1G4. an increase of G32; hence the
| total number of those who have sought
| admission in 1907. viz: 1,29S,5l3, eX-
ceeds the number who applied in 1906
viz: l,113,lG7, by lS5,54G."
! Commissioner Sargent says it is of
/ particular Significance that many i'm
migrants landed at ports in the South
I during the past year, and he refers
especially to party of Alb Belgians
excellent types of imnligrants-re-
cciyed at Charleston. South Carolina,
/ having been induced to go there by
/ the state authorities. The increase
of immigration to the South, the COM
missioner says, is directly connected
with the growing desire of the South
ern states to draw within their bound
I aries a number of the better class of
/ immigrants, it being considered by
| practically all of the leading men Of
the section that the future develop
ment and welfare of the South de-
| ponds upon its ability to receive and
absorb a reliable laboring and farming
element. Striking increases are also
shown at New Orleans, Galveston and
Honolulu.
Twenty countries showed in.
creases and eleven decreases. The tide
Of immigration of some of the coun-
tries is indicated by the following fig
ures:
AustriaHungary 33S.l52, increase
1874; Bulgaria. Servia and Monte
negro 1859, increase 6G93; France
9,731, increase 345; German Empire
37,S07, increase 243; Greece 3G.5GO. in
crease 1901; Italy, including Sicily
and Sardinia 2S5,731, increase 12.G11;
Russian Empire and Finland 25S ,9i3,
increase 1929; Turkey 20, ,7G7. increase
11,257 England 5G,C37, increase TAG:
Ireland 34,53O, decrease 4C5; Scotland
1870, increase 3,S74: China 9G1, in
crease 5S3; Japan 30.22G, increase 1G.-
391; British North America 1S9,9S1,
Increase 1885; West Indies 1868
increase 3,033.
Interest nominally attaches to the
proportionately large immigration
from Japan. While the exclusion laws
have rendered practically nil the i'm
migration from China, the immigra.
ton from Japan, while relatively not
great, has trebled in the past year.
This increase is significant, too, be.
latiOns adopted by the American gov.
crnment with the assent of japan
which it was supposed would curtal
the immigration of Japanese to this
country very materially.
OF the 13,064 persons who were
turned back during the year, 1,43A
were contract labor, but the number
of contract laborers deported during
the past year was thirty-eight per cent
less than in the proceeding year.
The aggregate number of outward
bound passengers. 5G9,SS2, was 73,145
larger than in 1906.
In discussion of the new immigra-
ton act, Commissioner Sargent
strongly urges that advantage be ta-
ken OF provision it contains for call.
ing an international immigration con
ference on immigration and immi-
grants.
Among the recommendations made
by Commissioner Sargent are the fol-
lowing:
That legislation be enacted to check
violations of the law by professed sea
men.
That marine hospital surgeons be
stationed at the principal ports of em.
barl:ation abroad to examine aliens
before they start for America.
That surgeons and inspectors, male
and female, be placed on vessels of
the principal steamship lines to eX-
anime incoming aliens.
That arrangements be perfected for
the detention of members of criminal
classes who seek to come to the Unit
ed States.
That a treaty be negotiated with
Mexico respecting immigration trusts
through that country. Or, If that can.
not be done, that the Mexican border
be closed to all aliens except our own
citizens and bona fde residents of
Mexico
= That harmonious arrangement be
made with the Canadian government
respecting the enforcement of the i'm.
migration laws of that country, and
the United States.
That immigrant stations be erected
at Boston. PHILADELPHIA and Baltimore.
That appropriations be made for i'm
movements at Ellis Island New York,
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