PRO IDES rol OUR SURPLUS POPULATION. There is another matter of inestimable importance to the New England farmer. laborer. and merchant. For years a tide of immigration. like a great billow. has been rolling in upon our shores. On an average for twenty years. yearly. nearly half a million foreigners have settled here. I append herewith the figures as furnished by the Immigration Bureau: Number of immigrants arrived in the United States each year from 1882 to 1901. both inclusive. Immi- ImmiPeriod. grants. Period. grants arrived arrived. Year ending June 30-- I Near ending June 3018.------------------- 788.992 1892 --------------------- 479. 663 1 --------------------- 603322 18.3 ------------------- 439.730 1884 ---------------------- 518.592 1894 -------------------- 185. 31 1&5 --------------------- 395.846 1895 ----_--------------- 258. 536 1886 -------_------------ 34.23 1896 --------------------- 43.267 1887 ---------------------- 491 109 1897 -----_-------------- 0. 5 32 1888 -----------------8..... 546 889 1898 ------------------- 229.299 3889 ..-------------_-------- - 444. 1899 ---_---------------- 11 715 1890 ---_------------------- - 45. 39 1900 ................... 448.572 1891 ----------------------8 5. 319 1901 --------------------- 487.918 In 1891 487.918 immigrants settled in the United States: of this number. 148.686 had no occupation. 54.753 were farm laborers. For the first four months of this year 233.087 arrivedan increase of 51.3 per cent over the same period for 1901. The number arriving in May surpassed any previous May in our history. indicating that the number this year will exceed even the banner year of 1882.
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