While every other country in the three Americas. except Canada. has become a republic. the United States has outstripped all other nations in growth in population. The movement of population from Europe to America. which has continued for four centuries. has proceeded with an everincreasing volume. Seventy years ago the number of immigrants to the United States was 8.000. In 1889 the number had risen to 444.000. Thus in seventy years 14.000. 000 of European immigrants have found a home in the United States. These immigrants comprised three principal classes: First. laborers. second. farmers. third. artisans. Now. it was the expectation of Adam Smith and the other philosophers of the mercantile school that America should become a great and sole producer of agricultural products. A year ago in London Hon.
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