Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Excerpt from Immigration With Reference to Its Causes and Its Effects Upon the Growth and Ethnical Character of the Population of the United States
The importance of the part which the commercial methods just outlined have played in determining both the quantity and character of our immigration cannot be overestimated. The very basis of an intelligent understanding of the character and proportions of our more recent immigration is a clear realization of the fact that the cheaper class of steamship patronage is still secured on the old emigrant agent principle, through persons who stand in a relation to the steamship companies analogous to that of Cook's Agency with its tourist travel, and that, to paraphrase a familiar advertisement, one can go into the ticket office annex of a saloon in a foreign colony in this country at any time and, on payment of a fixed tariff rate, arrange to have anybody in Europe collected and delivered anywhere in this country.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.