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Show WHEN IMMIGRATION BEGINS AGAIN For the three months ending August 31st only U!,,42!) immigrants reached New York, against 847,672 last year. For August alone Immigration was but 27 per cent of Inst year's figures, and in the meantime manv thousands of reservists have sailed for Europe. Of what will happen when the war is over the past gles us warning. The two years after the Franco-Prussian war brought us a record breaking total Two years after the Russo-.Tapanese Russo-.Tapanese war, 190fil7. brought 172,000 immlgronLs from Russia alono, which in the three years before the war, 1001-3, had seal but 328.000. There were wars of tun nations onlj What will happen after the close of the war of the eight nations, when in the hume lands of hundreds of millions mil-lions of people industry lies prostrate when property to the value of billions has been destroyed and when financial resources shrunken by the war are no longer adequate to employ labor? We get our greatest immigration now from regions that are undercapitalized Aftei the war all Europe will be undercapitalized, un-dercapitalized, and if we do not then feel the most tremendous pressure of immigration In our history precedent is a blind guide. When that pressure comes tho United Uni-ted States must be ready to direct it to utilize It, and where necpssary to restrict it. New York World. |