46 PERILS. — IM-MIGRATION. 



than another thh-d m only two rooms." ^ What must 

 free land mean to such a people? 



This, moreover, is the land of plenty. Tlie following 

 table, 2 giving the average amount of food annually con- 

 sumed per inhabitant, show^s how much better the peo- 

 ple of the United States are fed than any people of 

 Europe. All kinds of grain are included, as what is fed 

 to cattle serves ultimately to produce food for the popu- 

 lation. Potatoes are estimated as grain, at the rate of 

 four bushels to one of wdieat. 



Gh-ain, Meat, Grain, Meat, 



bushels, pounds.. bushels, pounds. 



France 24.02 81.88 Austria 13..57 56.03 



Germany 23.71 S4.51 Sweden and Norway 12.05 51.10 



Belgium 22.84 57.10 Italy 9.62 20.80 



Great Britain 20.02 119.10 



Russia 17.97 54.05 Europe 17.66 57.50 



Spain. 17.68 25.04 United States 40.66 120.00 



John Rae says that in Prussia, nearly one-half of the 

 population have to live on an annual income of $105 to 

 a family. Is it strange that they look longingly toward 

 the United States? 



Immigration rises and falls with our prosperity. A 

 financial crisis here operates at once as a check, but 

 numbers increase again wdth the revival of business. 

 We shall have, as heretofore, an occasional crash, fol- 

 lowed by commercial depression, but it can hardly be 

 questioned that the development of our ^vonderful re- 

 sources will insure a high degree of material prosperity 

 for many years to come. And the brightening blaze of 

 our riches will attract increased immigration. Equal 

 rights also and free schools are operative. We expend 

 for education nearly six times as much, per caput, as 

 Europe. Parents know that their children will have a 

 better chance here, and come for their sake. These 

 facts are becoming more widely known m other lands. 



i Henry George in Twilight Club Tracts, p. 37. 



2 Mulhall, Balance-Sheet of the World, 1870—1880, p. 39. 



