CHAPTER VI. 
EMIGRATION. 
YHILST emigration is actually being opposed in some of our 
wn colonies, the Americans are demanding with greater force 
han ever more hands and more brains. 
«“ “Tt can be shown by official records,” says the Report 
efore mentioned, “that the Kansas Pacific, the Union Pacific, 
A s, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, California, and Nevada. 
a ‘in acta owes to the rapidity and cheapness of transporta- 
ion m by rail her best immigrants—over 100,000 Germans, 
egians, and Swedes. Every foreign labourer landing on 
shores is economically valued at 1,500 dollars. He rarely 
es empty-handed. The Superintendent of the Castle 
a den (New York) Emigration Depét has stated that a 
inquiry gave an average of 100 dollars, almost 
ely in coin, as the money property of each man, woman, 
child landed at New York. From 1830, the commence- 
t of our railway building, to 1860, the number of foreign 
grants was 4,787,924. At that ratio of coin-wealth pos- 
ed by each, the total addition to the stock of money in the 
nited States made by this increase to its population was 
78,792,400 dollars. Well might Dr. Engel, the Prussian 
Statistician, say—‘ Estimated in money, the Prussian State has . 
during sixteen years, nd ate a sum of more than 
