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No More Immigrants Needed

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Day
20
Month
April
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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The English press records, with illconcealed satisfaetion, tho decline of immigration to tho Uuited Status, which tho official statistics of the Board of Trade revenl. During 1870 the numbcr of cmigrants from England to the Unitejc States was 54,551, and the number who returued 54,907. Tho surplus population of Ireland has been drained off, am: the island is prosporing, for since 1S(!5 ernigration has steadily dcoroased. l)uriiiíí thfi name poriod cmigration from SdDtland has reroained stationarj'. Emigratioii from Great Britain has bccu.in tho direction of Australia and New Zealand rather than to tho Unitcc States. The Engiish papers accept verj eheerfully the logic of tlie statistics. "Thore is misery and destitution," thoy say, "iu the land of thefree." "There are othcr and more promising parts of the world." " A couutry where people eitiier storve to deatli or are burnec alive in theatórfe or railwny carriagiH. ' "A good fleld for Chinamen." Wcll tliis country doesn't need any more immigrants nt' present. It is no easy mat tor to find work for all wlio are now here, and it coste n good dcnl to eduoak. tlie cliildron of those who have come over. Let them Mby wliere they are and live and grow fat on - American beef. - New York Tribune.

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Old News
Michigan Argus