He would not have felt it so keenly had he not been obliged to market so much there. and foreign producers not found such easy access here. The interruption to many manufacturing enterprises since 1883 has injured agriculture in two ways: Decreased the domestic market and induced mans a mechanic to try farming. Besides this the records of Castle Garden from 1870 to 1880 show that 1.158.606 immigrants landed there and that from 1880 to 1890 more than three times as many came. or 3.782.313 aliens passed through those gates to American citizenship and free homes. Sir. more than onethird as many immigrants entered there in the last ten years as have come. all told. since 1847. when Castle Garden was first dedicated the main doorway to American opportunities. Are gentlemen aware of the undue and enormous increase in farm area during the last decade? In -1880 the t6tal acreage was 539.309.179.
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