It is bound to beso. It can notb otherwise. Not more than twocases need be advanced to sustain the conclusion as to reduced immigration into this country. . .. ... The first mighty army of our immigrants came from Ireland because of the hard conditions prevailingat home. particularly *as to religious freedom. education. rents. and- ownershipof- land. Almost exactly Ill proportion as conditions have improved in Ireland. the Irish have ceased to emigratefor no people aremore ardent lovers of their native land. . Following the vast Irish imnligration came that of thi Germans. vaster still. Until some thirty or forty years ago our principal supply o immigrants came from Germany. When the present war began. the great stream of German immigrants had dwindled almost to the vanishing point. What was the reason for this shrinkage? It is clear that it was ecause the great industrial awakening of Germanyone of the most astoullng phenomena of modern timesgave employment at home to hundreds of thousands at higher wages In new kinds of work.
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