Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-16
TIDE STILL CROWS
immigration for Last Fiscal
Year is Greatest in Amer
ica's History.
SARGENT MAKES HIS REPORT
Increase in Number of Japanese Great
er Than of Other Nations De.
spite Restrictions.

Washington, Dec. 1G.-Immigration
to America during the year ended June
80, 1907, was vastly greater than in
any previous year of the history of
the United States. This fact, with all
its interesting and important details. is
placed in strong light in the annual re-
port of Frank p. Sargent, commissioner
general of immigration and naturaliza-
ton, which was made public yester-
day. OF this great flood of immigrants
Commissioner Sargent says:
AN army of 1,2S5,349 souls. drawn
hither by the free institutions and the
marvellous prosperity of our country
the chance here afforded every honest
toiler to gain a livelihood by the sweat
of his brow or the exercise of his in
elligence-surpasse in numbers the
record of all preceding years.
Increase is IL Per Cent.
THE immigration for the year 1907
exceeded that for 1906 by 1S4,614, and
that for the year 1905 by 25S,S5O, OF
an increase over the. year 1906 OF more
than II per cent, and over the year
1905 of more than 25 per cent. During
the fiscal year 1906, 12,432 aliens were
rejected at our ports; during the past
year, 13,064. ,an increase of 632; hence
the total number of those who have
sought admission in 1907 viz, 1,29S-
413, exceeds the number who applied
in 1906, 1906, viz, 1,113,167, by 1856,
246."
Foreign Countries Listed.
OF peculiar significance is the table
which shows the number of immigrants
from each foreign country, together
with the increases or decreases, as
compared with the previous year
ITwenty-seven countries showed in
creases and II decreases. The tide OF
immigration from some of the cOun
tries is indicated by the following fig
ures:
Austria HHrgsrs>--s 2; increase
1914; Bulgaria, Servia and Monte
negro 1850, increase 6,693: France
1881, increase 345; German empire
37,S07, increase 243;' Greece 3G,5S0, in
crease 1891; Italy, including Sicily
and Sardinia, 2S5,731, increase 1851;
Russian empire and Finland 25S,943
increase 43,27S; Turkey 20,767, in
crease 11,257; England 56,b37. increase
I7,146; Ireland 34,530, decrease 465;
Scotland 1870, increase 1874; China
961, decrease 5S3; Japan 30,226, in
crease 1891; British North America
1S9.91S. increase 14.S55; West Indies
1868, increase 3,033.
Increase from Japan.
Interest naturally attaches to The
lprOportionately large immigration from
| Japan. While the exclusion laws have
rendered practically nil the immigra
| tion from China, the immigration from
| Japan. while relatively not great, ha!
trebled in the past year. This increas,
| is significant, too, because it comes il
the face of the regulations adopted b!
the American government, with the as
|
would curtail the immigration of Jap
anese to this country very materially.
| Accuses Japanese of Trickery.
Commissioner Sargent presents eX
cerpts from official reports made t
his bureau by inspectors sent to Mex
leo and Canada to study the situation
with special reference to the comin
of Japanese to America through thos
countries, The reports show tina
thousands of Japanese landed in Me,
/ leo during the past year and ultimate
ily gained admission. surreptitiously
into this country. Once in the Unite
States, it was impossible to locat
them, except in the rarest instances
While the regulations concerning JaI
anese immigration have tended to re
duce the NUMBER of regularly admitte
Immigrants, hundreds if not thousand
of Japanese are still coming into tn
country by stealth.