OCR Text |
Show IMMIGRATION XXX rotai Enu Mlxrattona. I 'l PANAMA CAIIAL WILL EFFECT DIG CHANGES " V. . ' Tide of Immigrant Travel Will Take Short Cut to the West. PACIFIC STATES PREPARE FOR RUSH South America Also Is Getting Get-ting Ready to Reap Benefits. r ' BY nUSDSUO J. HAS KIN. H seems reasoanbl to assuai that tha nd of th mlgratioas of maa is atill centuries away and that maay a generation will rise and pas beyond eatthly concerns befor any approximate approxi-mate equilibrium of population will be established. Indeed, it is probable that so long a th world stand economic opportunity will rail people as well ' as IndixMuals to move from country to country and from continent to continent. conti-nent. A study of the map ' of : the world reveals how unequally distributed are th people of the earth, even 'when meeMired by tbe opportunities of gal-ting gal-ting a living. For instance, Asia has population of fifty per-tquaie mile; F.iirope has a huudrcd people to the square mile; North America has fifteeu, .frira eleven, Houth America seven nd Au.lr.ilis five. It tnurt be plnin to every peifon who hss a reasonable knowledge, of the relative resource of the several coo-tinenta coo-tinenta that South America hus the latent ability to support fifty people to the pquare mile as raMlv aa F.urope fan support a hundred, and if that lie true, there is. mum on that continent for three hundred million immigrants and I heir rirxresdant. It alrn seams to.be cilcnt, front. a. comparison of Hha relutive resource of North America and Alia, thst North America, with it. up to date western world atein of agriciillcrc, manufacturing S"J commerce, com-merce, cas support pwfiu'.ation of a rlenritv .equal o that akirh A.ia supports sup-ports today, with its out i f dale and antiqusteo Ngricultural and industrial methods. If that be true, thin North America rnicht yet find room for three hundred million aoula. .V tries I hot for the moat part, and somen hat ia-hoxpitable ia-hoxpitable to civilisation, and yet the soread ot the aciouce of tropical medicine medi-cine malic, it an available a place for human existence sa equatorial (South America in general, and Panama In Particular. Waving out she tircat Sahara, Sa-hara, it might sunport a pooutation of at leat twentv-fivo to the squsro mile, and that would meau room for an increase in-crease in population of mote than 10,-fiiiO.,000 10,-fiiiO.,000 souls. sTld Must Com From East. Australia, likewise, might accommodate accommo-date at least twenty-five-to the'squar mile, and that would menn nearly a hundred million .soul could find room on th smallest continent. In other nortla, with bouth America and North America having a population half aa dense as that ef Enrope and equally as dense as that of Asia, and with Australia Aus-tralia and Africa Jiaving a population only a fourth as dense as that of Kn- (Continued on pave A.) PANAMA CANAL WILL EFFECT BIG CHANCES I (Continued from pays 1.) rope aad half as donas as that of Asia today, tkere would bo room for as immigration im-migration to those continent of aearly nine haadrod anillioa souls. Aa things steed today, Enron tad Asia, with about two-fiftba of the world 'a sres, aopport faar-fiftba of tka world's pop-I pop-I olatioa. It natorallv feCewe that from tktaa two eentiaenia maat flow tka rivers af humanity wblck will bring tka population popula-tion of tha earth to a oommoa level, if each s level ever a reached. And aa loag aa tba other tostinrnita aot up tha bars against tha A tittle aa they ara tWlag today, net siaoh of tks Immigration Im-migration af tka futara eaa coma from there. Europe for eoaturlrt wltaeaaod aaa tide at humanity after aaotksr awosplag westward from Asia tha Colt, tha Teuton, tha Latia. tha Slav aad Ha popolatioa haa grow a aatil It ia sow four time aa donas ss the rent of tho world. ' Aad this in apita of tha fact that, ones tha Asiatia tides of humanity oeaaad ta swoop westward, ether tides ia tsrs started aa of Europe, Eu-rope, whoee pads are sot yet, sal whleh already have tarried perhaps a hundred hun-dred million aonla across tba ease to other oentiBasta. Canal will Make) Ohaats. Perhaps tha moat intemating probable prob-able development la humaa migratory mattere for tha early future is ths indicated in-dicated tide tha givee promise aooa to be sweeping through ths Panama aaaal. All tha world looks for s boom throughout tha Americaa aa rosatt of the opening of ths great waterway. Aad especially it thia to be true of tha Pacific aidea of tho two eantinsats. Suddenly all thit Taat region ia ta bo brought BOOO miles a earns ta tho lav migraat embarking porta ef Karope, 800 hoars' sailing ejoeer for ths Interchange In-terchange af commerce. Instead of Saa frnneiaos being aa far by water from Liverpool aa Sitka ia from Now Tork, tka eitr ef ths golden gsts will be brought ta near to Liverpool as Now Ten now ia to Bombay. When everyone believes aa era ef great developmaat ia coming and aqua res himself to greet it aad ta profit by it, nothing ess atop its ePTroach. Aad such a getting ready for the prosperity pros-perity tbat is eemiag ao eae ever taw aa ia bow ta bo found oa tha weat eeaste of tha two Americaa Thee prepsratleae are set ia the shape of each a tremendous riea ef valuee as ta dieeount the future for a generation, genera-tion, but rather is tha shape of a widsspresd plan te he ready to opes sp ths latest tssobtcos of these regions the minute conditions art ripe. It gives bo indication of being aa era ef apeeulntioa as things that exist today, but rather pre ml nee te took ita reward in the do-valopmoat do-valopmoat ot latest wealth. Witk snek a concerted, salted, common consent piss for reaping tke benefits ef ths eaaaL there is going to be arm oat aa aaprenedented demand for laboa ia western Paa-Amarlca. There will he an buWblee ef tpeeslasioa to burst, but rich tolls ef industry te gather. Pi sparing Xew Balsa, Already tha big ataasuhip lines are planning te take advantage of tha ait-nation. ait-nation. They will hare large flaeta ef Immifrsst carrying ships, equipped with ths excellent nooouimodaUone which ths "bow" steerage provides, ready te carry laborers aad their families fami-lies to those bow fields of abaadaat op-portanltioa op-portanltioa for work sad good pair. Tke labor coat era of Europe are watch-lag watch-lag with interest tks approaching com pletioa ef the canal, unae the tide ef immigration that will est through It will mean net only better wages for tboas was ga, but likewise for those was stay behind. The ratting down of the Isbor supply is Europe has eoa-aiateatly eoa-aiateatly helped the wags earner who remained behind te get a better wage thaa ha eoold command before his brethren answered the wanderlust be-gotUs be-gotUs ef economic conditions which sailed upon them to take tap their poa-esesioaa poa-esesioaa and join the groat caravan at humanity beand ta the now world. Aa inkling ef what the west eeatt ef the Americaa may be able ultimately te do ia tha way of furnishing bosses for B now population is te be gathered from Salvador. Thia little oanntry, with sa Bros ss email that aineteen ooantrlea like it asuld bo tucked nwsy withis ths eeailaee ef the single stats oat Oal iterate, haa a population ef 1.T07.000 tenia In other words, while California today haa a pepnlntioa ef 1.177.000, according to tha Salvadorean standard it eswid support aoaas forty million people. Any ens whs haa tree, sled front La Lib Had to Baa tmlvador and from Bss Salvador via. Sonessata to Acajntla and Zaenpa, aad who haa beheld the hundreds of square miles taken up with volcanic mountains, knows that Salvador haa so greater py 01 km ties of arable land thaa, California, Cali-fornia, furthermore, having seen tk tropical eyttem of agriculture aad Industry, In-dustry, he knows tbat California can match product with product and resource re-source with resource. The Salvadoreans are the most prosperous people of the weat coast, in spite of the remarkable dsnsity of population found there. Duplicating tha population of Salvador, Sal-vador, the other eoontnea ef Osatral America eoold find room for npwari of thirty million eoule sbovo their present pres-ent population. Mexico eoold fnraieh an abiding place for nearly 160,000.000 additional people. Measured according to the Balvadoraea staadard, the Americaa Amer-icaa eenld aeeommodate a total popiila-tioa popiila-tioa equivalent te twice the estimated population of the entire garth today. Of aourae, such a time may never coins aad certainly will sot some for many centuries, but it demonstrates the possibilities pos-sibilities of the weat coast. May Oo Xastwatd Again. It seems certain tbat tha opening of the Panama aanal will give saw truth to tke caving that westward the course of empire takes ita way. But that age loag tendenoy ef the unceasing' drift of humanity will stop with tha Pacific heist ef ths Americas, for beyond that bee Asia, where the mover .cut began, aad where there ia no room for aew immigration. Tha indications all point te the Americas sad Australia at tht regiont to which tha footttepe of tht Immigrant will lead for at least a century cen-tury mors. Asia will be abut sp within herself, aeither offerlag her hospitality te immigrant races nor beiag offered that of the ether eontinenta. After all, tba reeiatlest tides ef humanity hu-manity have swept to sad fro over the bosom af the oceans and ewer tke lands ef the earth ia search mf aew worlds of economic advantage to conquer, there yet may some a time whoa tbey win fold their tente nnd march bach to the irrigation' ditrbee from which civilisation civi-lisation sprang. Once the earth's supply sup-ply ef real it exhausted man will be put to it te find power to turn the wheels of the world's industries. The capita that old Pol stored rrp in the earth through millions ef years of shining exhausted, soma means then mast be found to replenish the supply. And only one mean thereafter caa act. eaea see today the solar engine, driven by the direct rays of the sua. Ths solar so-lar engine eaa da its work steadily and efficieatly only under a hot tun aad permanently cloudless sky. So industry indus-try will be driven to the sunburnt waterfronts of the earth. There map will irrigate hit fields, rue hit factories, drve hit railroad traits, operate his ships, cool hit houses, frees hit ice, and do all ef the thousand things that civilisation demands, with tba heat of the sua. He will be independent of the seasons, for there ia but one; ha will not have ts bother sbont tks rainfall, for he will distill his water and irri gate hit fields from the sea. He will aot care about the weather for he will be largely indoors aad all. buildings will bs cooled by the tame power tkat burns tha needs ef the desert. Fanciful? Fanci-ful? But none the lose one. of the fn-tnret fn-tnret to which ths drifting tides oi humanity may be sweeping. Tomorrow! THE CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY. |