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Show TRAGEDY OF FOREIGN IMMIGRATION. Foreigners have been lied to That is the conclusion reacted by the Kalamazoo Kala-mazoo Gazette after reading the government gov-ernment statistics of immigration and emigration of the past eight years. The Michigan paper says: "Figures furnished by the bureau of census show that in three fiscal years. 1905-7. 3,413 000 immigrants entered en-tered the United States The very year the great financial panic broke, 1907, saw also the immigration record rec-ord broken with a total of 1,285,343 new arrivals Work was at that tlm and continued to be scarce. In the next six years. 1908-13, about 3,200,000 aliens left our shores. Make due allowance al-lowance for those making visits home, or returning to live in Europe and there remain a vast number whose coming had meant sorrow and loss, whose going meant disillusionment an almost Incredible sum oi human tragedies. There may have been B million such indildual cases. Is thei guess too high? Another year oi two will fill up the total past peradven-ture peradven-ture Again we are faced with a record rec-ord immigration. With industry sluggish slug-gish for the time being, 1.038,596 en tered this country in the ten months ending with April, and the usual proportion pro-portion for June will bring the your s total up to about 1,350,000. It Is In-1 conceivable that such an immigration' should have come in such seasons by i natural process, without misrepre- sentation It is inconceivable that in I six lean ears 3.240,000 departing! aliens should have met 5,419,000 com Ing in; that 1913 alone should have brought nearly 1,200,000, that 19K Is to land 1,350,000, or more than the I probable total of unemployment un-1 less lies had swollen the total to sat isfy greed. If folk hitherto honest) are turned criminal by disappoint-1 ment, If privation drives normal people peo-ple to the hospitals or mental anguish maddens them, if a vast army face loss of time and waste of money hoarded through years of Industry, heavy lies the responsibility upon the steamship companies that comb ev , ery hamlet in Europe to 6veep possi ble passengers Into their dragnets.'' |