IMMIGRATION TABLE. 



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ture will lead to a great reduction of employers wages or prof 

 its; to a fair fixed interest on all the capital invested; to a fair 

 division of the earnings of work among the men who execute 

 it, in some recognized proportion to the contribution which 

 their skill makes to the perfection of their work, and that the 

 scale of every man s life may be one of steady, continual, mer 

 itorious rise.&quot; 



The abolition of the middle-man, therefore, is to be effected 

 by the intellectual advancement of mechanical and agricultural 

 laborers. But to restore the proper equilibrium between the 

 town and country, we must inquire where the agricultural re 

 cruits are coming from, since we cannot hope to turn the cur 

 rent of our native population for at least a generation. This 

 brings us to the great question of immigration. The following 

 table, taken from the Agricultural Report of 1873 r shows us the 

 sources from which it has mainly been drawn : 



ANNUAL IHMIGBATION INTO THE UNITED STATES FKOM 1867 TO 1873, INCLUSIVE. 



