The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-06-19

immigration. Total alien arrivals for
April 1908, 1882. e., at the rate of
,6e0.5S4 per year, or 122,115 more
than for 19O7-the banner year in our
imn igration hi.to Q,43S,469 aliens
lie monstrating that last years slump
1924, $3.50 was merely the warning ebb
o still greater food tide.
Four-fifths OF last years influx came
from southeast Europe and western
Asia Oess than one-twentieth of whom
had ever been here before); two
thirds were single male adults; one
fourth of the adults could not read and
write; and three-fourths settled in the
over crowded labor centers Of six
northeastern states, owing largely to
their instructive social fondness for
congested city districts.
Official Facts.
The very large sums of money an
nually sent to Europe from the United
States (according to last years re-
ports $50,0n0,000 were thus sent To
Austria and Hungary alone) have had
a magnetic effect on some European
governments. and has awakened in
them the desire to multiply these ship
ments to the greatest extent possible.
Tley have enacted laws with the os
tensible intention of restricting emr-
grafton, BUTTS. / was confronted with
the spectacle of hundreds upon
hundreds of agents licensed and priv
LEGGED to get emigrants in direct and
open violatian of their own laws. |.
was at this time that | learned of
the agreement between the Hungar-
ian government and the Cunard Line
by the terms of which said govern
ment guarantees" = 10000 steerage
passengers per year" pages 8, 5,
House Document No. 3S4. Official Re
port of Special Immigrant Inspector,
Marcus Braun (still in the U. S. Gov
eminent service) seth Congress, LIST
SESSION.
Mr.. Adolfo Rossi, royal commits
sioner of emigration of Italy, is re-
ported by Mr. Herbert F. Sherwood,
special correspondent of tne Liberal
immigration League who accompanied
the immigration commission on its
TRIP abroad two years ago, to have said
in speaking of the recent emigration
from Italy tosthe United States: This
large emigration has provided a
good market for land and made it more
valuable there in italy because many
of the returning emigrants buy percels
for themselves. Many emigrants
come back with $4,000 or $4,000 and
buy land
Farther on in his report to the Lib
eral League-a propogandist society OF
New York City-Mr. Sherwood says
From what l can gather Austria is
passive in her attitude toward emigra-
tou. in view Of a yearly influx of $40
100000 from America because OF it.
On the contrary Hungary is looking
upon il with some alarm notwithstand-
ing an annual augmentation Of her
capital by more than s20,000,000 due
70 H." But still further on Mr.. Sher-
wood says. For instance, one man
who ought TO know, says that at pres
ent the Hungarian government has no
specific agreement with tae Cunard
Line. Another, who ought to be
equally well informed declared that it
has. However that may be, it is evil
dent that the authorities have a def
lutte understanding of some sort with
the English company page 1895,
Congressional Record, April 26, 1909
Official Fiction2
Herr. Won Pills, of the German gov
eminent says: I'VE give with great
satisfaction tae fact that few Germans
now emigrate to the United States,
which is not due so much 10 the ex-
cellent conditions existing here as to
the fact that your present immigrant
labor has been mercilessly cheapened
in America" page "a, House Depart
ment 3S4, 59th Congress)
Official Effects
Financial Statement I'm
migrant Fund Fiscal
Year ended June 80,
1908. (Annual report,
commissioner general,
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