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Show FOREIGNERS GOING THROUGH OGDEN. At this time of year, for a number of years, there has been an exodus of foreigners of the working- class, and the first of the departing- army, is this year to go through Ogden, Saturday morning. When railroad construction grows slack or when business depression de-pression lessens the opportunity for employment, the stream of outsiders pouring back into the Atlantic from its source reaches the proportions of a human flood. The unemployed foreigners go home to throw off the feeling of homesickness; principally, though, to live at a cost far below the exactions of the high prices in this country. Even when work is plentiful in all but the winter months, the Hungarians, Italians and other, south of Europe laborers find it cheaper to travel third class to their homes, returning to this country coun-try in the spring, than to remain here during the winter, and, as a result, this yearly migration has become a fixed habit and, like the birds that move north and south with the seasons, these. fpreigners flit back and forth. They come and go as railroad and other rough work attract? or repels. The volume of the outward movement, of . foreigners is said to 6erve a3 an excellent index to the country's business condition. |