The New Orleans Bulletin

VALUE OF EMIGRANTS.

In the course of an article advocating better treatment of emigrants upon their arrival and full protection against runners, sharpers and ticket brokers, the New York Herald says:

An important source of the grandeur of America is the emigration to this country of the Germans, the English, the Irish, the Swedes, and the other nationalities who come and found cities and commonwealths under our flag.

For some time past, partly because of the depression of business, and largely, perhaps, because of the direct interference of European governments, emigration has received a sudden and marked check. We are not exactly sure about the figures, but think it will be seen that during the last year alone it fell off fifty per cent. Now, if we were to make a calculation as to the money loss alone resulting from this decrease it would startle our readers. No doubt there are causes leading to it which we can not control, and we must accept it as we accept the national debt and other matters that, twenty years ago, would have looked appalling if we could have seen them in the vista of our history.