The Question of the Hour! 1883 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The American Press is just now exercised over the question of the desir ability of wholesale immigration, and ex-commissioner Le Duc, formerly Chief of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington, comes out in a letter strongly denouncing it as likely to end in disaster to the country. The very fact that the question is discussed, however, is significant. It is the first symptoms of plethora the United States have now begun to think that they have absorbed enough of the foreign element that has made them a great nation. The demand for people is now felt by some at least to be satisfied, and soon we will have the cry America for the Americans as the new phrase of know-nothingism.

A recent number of the St. Paul (minnesota) Pioneer Press contained an article on the rapid exhaustion of the public domain of the United States, which showed conclusively that, within a very short space of time, the great Republic will no longer be able to invite immigration from other lands, with the promise of a quarter-section for every' man who will till it. The last report of the Public Land Commission stated that the United States did not own in the West more than acres of arable agricultural land which could be cultivated without artificial appliances. Since then, in 1880, the amount taken up was nearly acres. This was sur passed in 1881, while during the present year the rush of settlers has been still greater, principally German, Swedish and Norwegian.

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