. The National Civic Federation review . one hun-dred million dollars. If the average of the railroadand steamboat fares spent within this country by thesemigrants has been ten dollars, the inland Americantransportation companies have garnered from themabout thirty millions dollars. If the manufacturersand mine owners and the employing classes in generalhave availed themselves of one-tenth of this providentialsupply of cheap labor, in substituting it for labor pre-viously better paid by 10 per cent., they have savedin the three years in wages a matter of fifty milliondollars. Crumbs sufficient
. The National Civic Federation review . one hun-dred million dollars. If the average of the railroadand steamboat fares spent within this country by thesemigrants has been ten dollars, the inland Americantransportation companies have garnered from themabout thirty millions dollars. If the manufacturersand mine owners and the employing classes in generalhave availed themselves of one-tenth of this providentialsupply of cheap labor, in substituting it for labor pre-viously better paid by 10 per cent., they have savedin the three years in wages a matter of fifty milliondollars. Crumbs sufficient to keep them alive fallingfrom this traffic have also been picked up by somethousands of contractors, padroni, employment agents,slum landlords, and dealers in small patches of ourundeveloped resources. If in America it could occa-sionally happen that lawmaking should result from pulland steering, the not somnolent interests mentionedmight perhaps be tempted to try their turn in askingCongress for something good. Having overstuffed the. CHARLES A. MOORE,President New York Civic Federation. cities to a point of acute indigestion, they might comeforward and suggest a project for loading up the hinter-land. Among the numerous articles afloat on the ocean ofprint during the last year or two advocating governmentaid in distributing the arriving millions, none has sug-gested a clearly considered, specific, detailed announces its need of forty thousand agricul-tural laborers for the coming harvest; the South isalways calling for more field workers; immigrantshave reclaimed many abandoned New England farms;healthy new communities can be nurtured from thebosom of Nature itself; land is offered everywhereon desirable conditions; plenty of room in our West,Northwest, South and Southwest—these glitteringpearls, borrowed from the phraseology of the real estateboomer, have been dangled before us, but out of it allwe have been given no definite project. To what part of this cou
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