Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1902, Page 27

Likely to Break All Immigration Records This Year A FINNISH BLOSSCM FROM THE NORTH OF EUROPE FROM THE SOUTH OF EUROPE NLESS there should be an unex- 200,902; in 1899, 278,846; in 1900, 367,440; in The first two of these may be placed in times as much at home to the Pole or or the P le may be, because he doesn’t pect and highly improbable 1901, 108,226. one class as against the Itallans—last Slovak and five times as much to the futend to remain in this country, there are slump all immigration records are After 1802, when times in America were year there were 60,000 of the former and Italian as it would be here, so that there two other classes of Immigrants now bound to be broken this year. reported hard in Eurcpe, imm grati n feli off 56,000 of the latter. The total immigration is small wonder that both Poles, Slovaks coming here who are undesirable because Both the daily and monthly rec- signally, to increase from 1847 to the pres- this year to date has been about 202,000, and Italians, besides those of many other they are non-producers almost to a man. ords have becn broken already, as a mat- ent, slowly at first, but steadily, and more more than half the grand total of last ye nationalities, prefer to spend their savings These are the Assyrians and the Greeks .ter of fact, so that only the yearly recently by leaps and bounds. The poor It is hardly nccessary to say that there ¢n their native soil, where they can make Men of both these nationalities prefer com record stands., and discouraged in Europe, those for whom is no comparison between the German and the most of them. mereial life to productive toll They come The monthly record was broken in there is no place and no comfort at home, Irish immigrants of othcr years and the That Ireland is more prosperous than in here with enough money to insure landing, April, when 73,667 forelgners (steerage pas- have heard of Uncle Sam's prosperity and Polish, Slovak and Italian immigrants of fsrmer years is given as the reason for the almost invarfably, but few of them have sengers, not citizens) passed through the 8&re now hastening to these shores as fast the present. In physical appearance and g creased Irish immigration—anyway the trades and they go to peddling or become nation's gate cn the bit of land termed a8 they can raise the money to come and vigor the men and women from northern good old days when a shipload of deep petty merchants of some sort. The Greeks Ellis island in the harbor of New York. Steam can bring them hither. Europe cutmatch the others almost two (hested, rosy lassies from the green are almost all fruit deale while the As The daily reccrd was broken on Satur- The present high tide of immigration is to one. As material from which American jsjand was N0 DoVe at the immigration syrians sell Oriental fabric such as rugs day, May when 6.213 men, women and Sure to keep up, too, as long as the coun- citizens are made the disparity is still gratjon have passed, and, apparently, for- and other wares The Assyrian colony in children from almcst every country in try's prosperity is the wonder of the whole greater. Nearly all the German and Irish ever. Irish women are going home to stay, New York is one of the institutions of the Europe, as well as a few from Asia and carth. There is a common belief that im- came here to stay; nearly all the Poles, py the thcusands nowadays, as the publi metropolis now, the southern end of Green Africa, stepped foot cn American soil for migration figures reach the maximum in Slovaks and Italians come hire to remain l,}-,,||\. announce every once in a while; Wwich str which was formerly almost the first time. The burning of the records ten-vear periods, but this is not so the only till they can get enough money to- possibly more are leaving America than are Hibernians, being now almost all Assyrlans a few \rs ago with the flimsy wooden tide is governed almost wholly by the rise gether to go back and live on the pro- coming, but there is no way of determin It is the Turk who has sent both Greeks bulldings in which the United States and fall of our material prosperity. The cecds of their savings or the produce of ing this. No records are kept of outgoing 8nd Assyrians here. The Assyrians, who first received immigrants on Ellis and Prosperity of Europe may be supposed to the little farms these savings will buy. Of g eerage passengers—besides, not all the @are Turkish subjects, come because the precludes accurate comparison with earlier have something to do with it, and, perhaps, late years, indeed, immigrants of these [rish women who came here by way of the Sultan's government s treating them with figures, but it is distinctly remembered by in a measure it has, but less than you classes—the Italians more particularly—go steerage go home as they came. i more and more severity every year, while the inspectors that never before was there W¢ uld imagine, for though Germany is any- pack home winters and spend the earnings With the Germans it is different the Greeks have had an ever-increasing such a hustling there and never were so thing but prosperous, now, industrially, the of the summers, thus draining the country drcp in immigration from the Kkaise fondness for America ever since the Graeco- many passed in one day as on the first immigration of Germans to the United annually of dollars by the millions, instead mains is largely due to the kaiser's gov- Turkish —war. Curlously enough, the Sa urday in May, 1902. The heaviest month States at this time is small, whereas it of adding to the national wealth, as did ornment. It has devised many restrictive Armenians, another non-producing class, previous to April of this year since the used to be emormous. the earlier newcomers from Germany and laws which make it dificult to leave the have almost ceased to come to America government has had charge of the New jp. ujeration Changes, the Emerald Isle. Fatherland for America. Besides, weighty Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians alike are York immigration station was exactly ten Thousn 21l Fortunes. inducements to settle in German colonies singularly non-progressive, yet they are years earlier, in April, 1892, when the num- In fact there has been a great change in ar» put forward to those who think they among the most nervous and hysterical peo- ber coming in was 69,000 On the first the character of the foreigners who come It is not too much to say that thousands just seek their fortune abroad. They are ple in the whole world They are seldom nine days of this month 24,096 were landea, here in search of fortune. In place of the of what those who amass them term for- exempt from military service, for one detained because of violating the contract or at the rate of more than 80,000 for the hearty Irishman who develops better under tunes are got tcgether in this country every (hing, yet may retain their German citizen- labor law, but often because of contagious month. the Stars and Stripes than anywhere else year by Europcan laborers to be spent in ghip, and this is only one of the induce- and dangerous disease. This is most often on earth, the sturdy German, who has the old world ments which seem worth while to the true of the Assyrians, who are frequently Our Prosperity Attracts. made himself an important factor in Amer- The average Pole, Slovak or Italian will Teuton who believes he can better himself afflicted with trachoma, or, as they term it ican life, and the fair-haired Scandinavian, save from $200 to $280 in a year, and in five by leaving home. at the immigration bureau, ‘“‘the Egyptian Some notion of the great increase this hard-working, frugal and a genuine acqul- years will have tegether, say, two eyt It is caused, so rumor states, by year thus far over recent years may be sition, we have now an excess of Poles and thousand goca American dollars. Every- Non=Produotive lmmigrants, the fine sand of the semi-arid lands from gained from the following figures: In 1897 Slovaks from Austria and Ru and thing considered—purchasing power, ete However undesirable from the stand- the total for the year was 142,400; in 1838, Ttalians. this money is worth two and one-half peint of citizenship the Italian, the Slav (Continued on Eighth Page.) R S L J& € - I A DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL CON VENTION OF THE Z. C. B. J.,, THE BOHE MIAN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, WHICH MET RECENTLY AT WILBER Photo by W, M. Ilara