Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-19

had attained such strength and vol
ume that almost every editorial writer
In the country felt called upon, more
or less often, to dilate upon what this
influx of strange peoples would mean
not only to themselves but to the re-
public From Italy and Austria-Hun-
gary the protest was especially loud,
for stern figures showed that during
the year Austria-Hungary had lost by
immigration to the United States 1885,
452 of its people. while Italy was re-
duced by more than a quarter OF
million.
This remarkable movement from the
home soil could not pass unnoted, for
every phase of human relation was af-
fected by it. The landowner felt II
most of all. for the men who left were
his laborers. Their passing reduced
his supply of available labor. increas-
ed the wages of those who were left
and altered their servile attitude to
one approaching independence. so he
naturally enough cried out against
emigration. declaring that America
was robbing the European nations OF
their strongest, leaving the aged, the
women and the children.
Frightened by the protest. Austria
Hungary passed drastic emigration
laws under which it will henceforth
be harder for the pOpulace to escape
its surveillance and service. But even
before these laws had a chance to dam
the westward tide the industrial de-
preston prevailing in this country IN
the winter Of l907-S had turned Il
eastward. With the advent Of hard
times" with the closing Of mills and
mines and the lessening OF railroad
construction, many OF the recently ar
rived immigrants who had been per
forming the c0arser. cruder tasks re
CURED by the industrial development
Of the country returned TO their native
lands.
Among those who have watched the
ebb and flow Of this immigrant tide.
and who many times has made him
self q part OF IL 30 be might better
understand its meaning, is DIT Edward
A. Steiner, professor OF applied Chris
tianity la Grinnell College Iowa. and
author OF 'On the Trail Of the lmmi.
grant" The Mediator" and 'Tolstoy
the Man and His Message"
Dr. Steiner rs in no sense OF The
word a statistician though Ia bis book
are q few tables showing the Increase
and decrease OF immigration from
European countries ne ia 100 Intense.
ly Interested in his fellow man TOO
keenly alive 10 pie humanity, 10 az.
opce MN 10 arlthmetical terms Every
ope VI tDe millions who have come
" thi~ country - 10 him an indi
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