. Review of reviews and world's work . turn. One Pole, owing to thedeath of his wife, was taking his childrenhome. He was refusing to ask this countryto help him care for his family except as itgave him an opportunity for earning a had been here only a year and expected toreturn to Boston, where he had worked as alaborer. Another Pole, fifty years of age, alaborer, had been injured at Niagara was going home after working in thiscountry for only a year. Another of his fel-low passengers had also suffered from an acci-dent and was on his way back to the Father-land because of
. Review of reviews and world's work . turn. One Pole, owing to thedeath of his wife, was taking his childrenhome. He was refusing to ask this countryto help him care for his family except as itgave him an opportunity for earning a had been here only a year and expected toreturn to Boston, where he had worked as alaborer. Another Pole, fifty years of age, alaborer, had been injured at Niagara was going home after working in thiscountry for only a year. Another of his fel-low passengers had also suffered from an acci-dent and was on his way back to the Father-land because of it. While sickness and visiting contribute tothe passenger lists of the third class, the chieffactor in filling and emptying the cabins isclearly the state of our labor market. Themobility of the foreign labor supply when con-ditions become abnormal was demonstratedin connection with the financial storm of the disturbance resulting fromPresidential elections is also reflected. THE EBB y\XI) FLOW OF THE LMMIGRATIOX TIDE. ITALIANS HOMEWARD BOUND ON THE CANOPIC It may be recalled thatthe news of the election ofMr. Taft to the Presidency-was followed by great popu-lar demonstrations in someof the villages of southernItaly. The mayors of thesecommunities were calledupon to send congratulatorydispatches. The result ofthe election was interpretedas meaning an improvementin the demand for unskilledand semi-skilled labor. Theforeign laborer, it wouldappear, has learned to lookupon a Presidential year asone in which the demand forhis services is likely to becurtailed, owing to unsettledindustrial conditions. Inthose years he returns to hisnative land in greater num-bers and furls the sails of hisambition until the roughweather of a national elec-tion has subsided. The num-ber who returned to Europe in 1904, a Pres- election of 1908 upon the flow toward Eu-idential year, was nearly one-half the total rope, for the country was then suffering fromof those who came to this co
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