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A . ) • v* - tt .. * t . • r l h- war i i;* rt 1
w: « }>•• ;• l- ; -Tiii i".i -.i ot c-ini^ratioii
from Kuro;i'\iii <our.trifs to tii*
i■ :.-.i S'.u. Tin* l'iiit. ■! States
opines this paper will be in a posl
tion to absorb tin’s immigration and
to tli.- nation it v. ill com-.
It is very difficult to s - why. It
is |:;inl to determine upon what
ground - tie Railway Age foresees |
stub an exodus from Europe and
sttil harder to determine v.by it,
should come to Ativri' a.
i’in- j rime faitor it. .e-a naming
aiw. Is more
or -ie tar' that tie l..t.d rc
. ,g that immigrate', had more
,,. : e,e j;, tj of tree i a ii d open
; j - ■ ■ in 1:. a ■■•rial Opport u
nii; lor labor ii is true
id,Si r, . : ,.iu. ; - i;uantilv
ami attr .•■■ ■■’. u.-uallj decided
lull..hi of eiiiigiabts. Itiit tile (ti
re, tien assumed »•> tie ilurt ot emi
gration was guided by tlie magne
tic attr; ction of fr.c land.
Tie era of fre • ■ land has passed
as tar a.- the flitted States is cen
ter d. Today the land, to all iu
t -tils :.ml purposes .is taken up.
Landlordism with ail its peculiar
characteristics so long known to
Europeans is thriving today in Ain
i■ r:■ .i. The majority ot farters to
tlav are tenant farmers and the mass
have their property mortgaged to
tuo h an extent as to signify that
t... v are in real l'ati if not nomi
nal:.'. tenants to the mortgagers.
It A- i|uit* true that there will he
lots ot opportunity for work in Am
iri' a after the war. It is however
to he pointed out that for tha past
score years and more the labor mar
ket in the United States has been
showing a greater proportion of un
employed than in many older na
tions Certainly far greater than
France where the workers and pea
sants adopted malthusian methods to
prevent an increase In the number
o. propi rtiie. s . ml pennili -s wagi
v.-orkers. Certainly more than in
Rummy where a judicious rondt
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r -r.tin* i v; n
end labor suppl
r.i my 11 j> to I.;.'
mis with till' ontbtvaK of Up war.
"lie r -!i u ho h . <tir*-<• t<-<i r.t
tenlion to 111' 'low i;i' rtt iteration
will have litt!. trouble ih (i'm r.iiiF
tli. t tii' ti'a’ii flow of • li•• r till*' w is
in tin ilirci'tirii o! free land Canada
proportionately had begun to $6*
: nrli mori' and more of the Kuro
Iiimu iintniar it on: Hrazil, Argen
tina •inti otlu r south \merh an
countries rnanilV 'fd the same phen
omenon. And now after tin1 war
tallied to these will he the greatest,
the largest and the freest of them
all New Russia.
Siberia if intended by nature tc
In- s. tiled by the Caucasian rate,
The fact ihat so large a belt is ii:
the temperate zone, so largo an
area is of such a diameter as is host
adapt, d to the ha hi tand necessl
tier, of white rare that its settle
meat >s bound to attract millions ol
Europeans who will wend their wa\
there, a peculiar and very interest
ing reversal of the human till,
which had come out of the easl
and drifted westward with the sun
In Siberia great forests, immense
plains of valuable agricultural land
rolling lands adapted to easy culti
vation and provided with very na
tural requirement for the prodtictior
of human food, all indicate win
some degree of certainty that in tin
next era after the war Siberia wil
he for the re d ol the 20tli Contur;
wlir.t the initid States has been foi
the greater nart of the lfitli cen
t urv.
Moreover with the overthrew e
autocracy in Russia anil th" «■ i*.'
determination among the Slavic pcn
pie that upon it ruins no Indus
tri;.l or corn in- lal autocracy wil
tit ill.
tuvhy ■- :■ ’lit i in dire-: the <u
slinie- , t!i./ people. tin- worker.
Of tli- rid will almost (-rtainiy
<• ist .11 ti -ir lot with tin* great coun
u> au;i : i l.a development at t lit
hands o! lube r.
It is more than likely that tiie
great industries in the I'nited States
wid t \j-- rif me a shortage in irn
raigra t ;•>!:. I; lias long been : lit
custom uf the larger corporations
to seize upon immigration and di
rect its ti.iv into tlie sa'ck— mi.-a
■ if tie iitdi.sti i.ii plant..
strides which Ani
cri- l -!■ i. iron. copper and initi
*•!■ i;havi r .eh- mild lie
imye -i, v. iv it not ft r tie- in t
' i.; • . :. - ■ v, ry lit er bn- is l.t r. -
erni: .*• r tin- army of in i that
l,i.'; ' ■ i self in tilt I ial ts fit
th-.- i -el ti..tries throughout the
nation.
It was through that means that
greii' consolidations wen able to
keep down tiie labor demands for
better conditions; and it was
through tiie same means that ’he
■■■orporatmis '.ere able to erect a
system of exploitation that for in
tersity in imumpion of man power
is ,ii.- ;u.i!led the world over.
it is a fact tout the natural waste
and extravagance which :s to he
noted in American industrial de
, tli _■ mort or
than a national tragedy. In tlie
lumber iiidusry the logging fompany
! usually wastes four-fifths of 'lie
lumber growth and logs clear and
sound one fifth. Copper mines are
: gutted unsystematically of tiie
richest lodes. steel works wasted
| Mi.- energies of tiie gases from tiie
blast furnaces, smelters dissipated
j an immense by-product in the fumes
of careless smelting, iron ore mines
wcic ransacked with total disregard
to the waste of tiie methods. The
reason was that the tesourtes con
trolled by the few were so giganttf
that tiier.. was no reason tor con
} serration.
What lias been noted with rogari
to the natural resources is alsc
trite about tin- grown or tiie matin
i.i'triiil prod nets. The waste o
wla at by I lie methods of - •leaning
and handling and the various sys
terns used to defeat the hopes o
grow rx have been tli" subject o
-la ial criticism. But even in tin
railroads the waste of freight carry
ing material 1ms become a by-word
’I h car short: go that is such .. not
able evil in the land just of late i:
due rather to the lack of system
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ia loading and unloading, the abuse
of demurrage and other things
than in ar.y such thing as a numer
ical insufficiency of ears to handle
the mat rial to la carried.
All of these tilings fade into in
significance in comparison however '
to the waste of human lite. Mon'
nun v.yn hided in tlio mines ot
G. dad •• .luring year lhlt
than \v, re killed in the mines of ;
Fraitf , Great Britain. Germany a; i
I’-. Igium combi!!- d. America is tli
only country where the facts of c.
cup.uional b..- aae do not even in
terest .: cialists. The dis< ast s cans
. i by industrial cccuptions are not
noted and certainly receive iittle oi
no attention. The efforts to com
bat consumption in America every
tithe have run up against the stone
wedl oi industrial causes which
might not be interior, i with.
There ; ro industries in tie
railed States, a special occupation
in silk mauu'uc'ttiv is one of tic-n.
*vi” !< ill th <■•:!! 1.. ,... .<uri : , !
or b-.t.r oi a; ;:.a .rem unease co’..- |
! ; t v i ; % .t:• til" san.
•i ■e-ip it ion it i. atti mi cl by any
evil feet lu< to careful Sanil iy
it;' r. avciisf any such disc..
in 'h.: s.u. 1 industry in Franc.
it is ■ ry ; : ibabk- that as tit
most d tin ;•( glaring d
l'ccts in indueri.il exploitation v. i.
be rent l ed; remedied by legisla
tion and remedied by labor orga
nization. But tin time is come now
in tli" Glided States when liic man
who begins life as a worker must
make up tiis mind that as long as
this system continues, so long will
he remain a wot k. r.
The old falla; v that every man
wild desired it could become a
Iloi itcfeller or a Hill or a Carneys
is vanishing exceedingly fast before
the erosive analysis of common
s'-nse. Bight today census figur
reveal that nine tenths of the pop.i
!.;tion are .-erving no n: cither -ai
riial or wag- wck'-rs. Tie iucr
in the proportion of wage and sal -
ri.-d non to owners anil indepci.b
. nt- in business and industry 1...
been one of the most striking char
acteristics of the age just closing.
Now all of these things count in
the- matter of immigration. It is
j. ' ' an. insiini t upon the part ot
people starling to leave their homes
lhat they will direct their steps In
wards that nation where opportu
nity for an independent existence
is greatest.
Essentially free land, that can be
homesteaded and takep up by immi
grants is one of the ehiel'est attrac
tions. High wages and extensive
purchasing power of gold is also
'another strong incentive. For good
or evil the Glided States cannot
olP-r free land any longer to sett
lers. The man who goes west to seek
an agricultural homestead will reach
l he Pacific Ocean without discover
ing what he is looking for. The
purchasing power of the American
dollar has depreciated to an extra
ordinary degree, even if the rate ot
exchange shows a handsome con
trast to that of other currencies.
On the other hand after the war
in Europe will spring up a period ,
of intensified activity. it will be.
the period of reconstruction. And
it will lie tlie period of social as !
well as physical reconstruction, of I
that we may be fully asured.
The millions who return from j
the trenches are not going back to I
warrens un i tin :r tenements;
and ih ir state of chronic starvation |
and exploitation wh-n they have!
fullv rm.iizea that it is not neces
sary. j
To think that these men will fly i
to evils that they know not of in!
America or elsewhere, instead ot i
i. ii ir.g those and overcoming them
in their own lands is to argue
against ail the laws of probabil
ities.
They have been provided with an 1
nsit: of ■ me during ■
t!ie war and common report iiuii
• i - that the mines of i •.os• j
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- - n iri i
l before. j ]
It is not from Huron • that Arc- | j
itrial . .
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to Asia. j
it r.nr h- r -i-onabi' be exp. ■ ted ; j
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that an effort will be made afet.i
the ear to introduee coolie labor \
ii. i'o America on a scale hitherto j
bitterly opposed. Yet already it N
has strong advocates in this coun
try who find in the docility indus- j
try and thrift of the Chinese. Jap- j
au's- and Hindus a valid reason ;
for their admission for tl& benefit j
of employers.
Unquestionably tlnre will be a i
strong and bitter light on this pro-, j
Hut if it is trie- that j
after tin- war European immigru- j j
tion will be marked by a large fall-11
ing off. tin industrial captains will i
turn towards Asia for relief.
Xor are any questions of nation j
it ii T y likely to hamper them in the!
gratification of their demand. Tie
employers usual':.' identify tlied; I
welfare with tho welfare of the na
tion alone. 'I heir patriotism is s
strictly caste patriotism which if it
serves them is well, if not it is se
ditious and treasonable. Their ideas
are built up radically and funda
mentally upon their own economic
welfare and if. as it is likely they
will so see it. Oriental labor !s
I considered a necessity to the im
perialist commercial designs ot i
the American industrial oligarchy.;
we may reasonably expect to see
them bring about that condition. It
may postpone a few seconds the
inevitable.
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