Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27

EMIGRATION 70 TIE U. S.
noes NOT LET UP.
,,o the Year 1907, 1,2s5,s4s Souls
.,ded Here-Great Increase Over
oo,dous Records - Thousands Of
,.rs Landed in Mexico and Finally
Got over the Line

wv
,.,,igration to America during the
ended June 80, 1907, was vastly
yo~ "a+or than in any previous year of
g. history of the United States, &C
wy sino to the annual report of Frank
W. corgent. commissioner general of
Iteration and naturalization, which
been made public. Of this great
noS a If immigration Commissioner
sargent says;
AN army of 1885, $40 souls, drawn
s,+ber by the free institutions and the
noorvelous prosperity of our country
.bo chance here afforded every honest
toiIer to gain a livelihood by the sweat
~ bis brow or the exercise of his in
arioance-surpasse in numbers the
record of all preceding years"
Tho immigration for 1907 exceeded
tbat for 1906 by 184,614, and that for
1oo5 nv 25S,850, or an increase over
1oo6 Of more than II per cent, and
over 1905 of more than 25 per cent.
nuriDg the fiscal year 1906, 12,432
aliens we're rejected at our ports, dur
ing the past year 1864, an increase of
600. hence the total number of those
who have sought admission in 1907
viz.1298,513, exceeds the number who
annlied in 1906, viz, 1,113,167, by 1856,
S46"
Commissioner Sargent says it is OF
narticular significance that many i'm
migrants landed at ports in the south
during the past year, and he refers es
recialy to a party of 473 Belgians, ex
celent types of immigrants, received
at Charleston, S. c., having been in
duced to go there by the state author
tiles The increase of immigration tC
the south, the commissioner says, is
directly connected with the growing
desire of the southern states to draw
within their boundaries a number O.
the better class of immigrants, it be
ing considered by practically all of the
leading men of the section that thu
future development and welfare of thu
south depends upon it's ability to re
ceive and absorb a reliable laborini
and farming element. Striking in
creases are also shown at New Orlean
and Galveston.
Twenty-seven countries showed in
creases and IL decreases. The tide Q
immigration from some Of the cour
tries is indicated by the following fig
ures:
Austria-Hungary, 338,452, increase
1894; Bulgaria, Servia and Montent
gro, 1889, increase, 6693; France
S731, increase, 345; German empire
37,8O7, increase, 243; Greece, SO, $50, il
crease, 1901 Italy, including Sicil
and Sardinia 285, 731, increase, 1851
Russian empire and Finland, 258,94I
Increase, 43,278; Turkey, 20,767, il
crease, 11,257; England, 56,637, II
crease, 7146; Ireland, 34,530, decrease
ass; Scotland, 1910; increase, 1874
China, 961, increase, 1888; Japan, 80
226, increase, 1891; British Mort
America, 189,919, increase, 1885
West Indies, 1859, increase, 1898.
proportionately large immigratio
from Japan. While the exclusion law
have rendered practically null the II
migration from China, the immigr
ton from Japan, while relatively nj
great, has trebled in the past yea
This increase is significant, too, b
cause it mes in the face of the reg
lations adopted by the American GO
eminent with the consent OF Japa
which was hoped would curtail the i
migration of Japanese to this count
very materially.
Commissioner Sargent presents
cerpts from official reports made to
bureau by inspectors sent to Mex
and Canada to study the situation w
special reference to the coming
Japanese to America through tho
countries. The reports show that tn
sands of Japanese landed in Mex
during the past year and ultimat
gained admission, surreptitiously'
this country. Once in the United sta
it was impossible to locate them'
cept in the rarest instances. WI
the regulations concerning Japan
immigration have tended to reduce
number of regularly admitted i'm
grants, hundreds of Japanese are
coming into the country by stealth
Scores of Italians Return.