The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-31
From the Boston Globe.

@H HE tide of immigration seems
 (CD to have set strongly again
 from Europe to the United States. The aliens believe apparently that this country is to experience good times again. The bad financial situ- alton in 1907 promptly checked inn migration from southern Europe and particularly from Italy.
 The effect of the panic of 1907 on immigration is shown by the fact that in November of that year there were 137.647 aliens brought into this coun- try. The following month of Decem- Der saw this number cut down to 77,lo7, and by February, 1908, only about SO,- 900 were reported at all the receiving stations.
 The stories of the panic in New York andN the suspension of payments by banks throughout the country in stantly were reflected In Europe. Steer age passage in the Atlantic steamers went begging, so that for January or last year 27,175 more aliens left this country than came into it. There was SnrlnKaBe III lhe loISi6h POPu"NoAA continuously from December, 19o7 im- mediately following the panic, until the end of August last year.
 About the end of the summer 1t be- came apparent from reports made by foreign settlers here to their friends at home that the financial panic had wasted away, and that America once
 1a Ac suit of this the tide of immigration began to flow slowly and then more rapidly into the United States, until during April, 1909, 116,754 immigrants were admitted into this country
 In Washington, according to "Rey mond." the correspondent the indica- tions are for large addition to our foreign population during the next few months, and the temporary cessation following upon the panic is likely to be succeeded by abnormal figures during the present calendar year. bringing the total we'll beyond the million mark. More than this, the departures are dropping off rapidly and the net in crease in foreign population from this time on will be great
 During the time of our greatest prosperity the Europeans who came here for day labor were so prosperous that they did not find it profitable to return home again. For the fiscal year of 1907 there were nearly 100000 aliens brought into this country. in cluding many thousands who did not
 
 partures as fer as they could be as- certained were less than half a million, so that in one year a net increase of our foreign born population was over 1,000, 900 people.
 The statistics for last year are also interesting. For the fiscal year 1908 the total arrivals of aliens amounted to a fraction over 900,O0O. The total departures, as shown by actual figures, were approximately 100000. The net increase in our foreign population for the year including and following the panic was therefore only about 100000 people.
 Now foreigners from Italy and southern Europe are coming with a TuSif anu ticy dPpaiChe tbi WILLIS to stay. The figures prepared show grand total of 157,047 arrivals for April, 1909, or nearly three times as many as during the corresponding month of last year. This grand total includes 12S2 aliens who were debarred 17,382 who were naturalized citizens of the United States and 21.62S who, al- though aliens, were not classed as i'm migrants. This leaves the figure first given 116,754 as the total admission of actual immigrants into the United States in a single month.
 It is noticed that southern Italians were the first aliens to believe that this country is well over the effects of the panic. The April figures show 35,S56 from southern Italy and 4504 from northern Italy, making a total of more than one-third of the entire immigra- ton in April from the single nationali- ty. Next to the Italians are the Poles, 1O,798 in number. The Hebrews do not seem to have recovered from their financial distrust, because during the month there were only 2S91 of them admitted, whereas in 1908 they mounted up to the extraordinary total of 153,74S, or an average of considerably over 12,- GOO a month. It is believed, however,