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IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION.
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The emigrants from Sweden consist, for the most part, of workmen
(agricultural and industrial, not professional) and domestics, but, of course,
all classes of society are represented. The emigration, on a large scale,
of unmarried women began a lillie later, but that, too, soon altained
considerable dimensions.
Emigration from the North of Sweden, the inhabitants of which are to
a great extent dependent on the timber-trade, has always been (except in
the last decade) considerably lower than from the agricultural provinces
of South Sweden.
Fight between John Ericsson’s "Monitor" and the "Merrimac" in Hampton Roads.
March 9, 1862.
The effects of this great emigration have undoubtedly extended to all
classes of society. From an economic point of view, emigration proved
a relief during the period when the younger age-groups were in excess, and
when the opportunities for work were few, as was the case about 1880.
But, at other periods, the loss of such an amount of working-power must
have quite naturally been crippling, and it cannot be advantageous to the
national economy of any country to bring up and educate at great cost
young people who immediately afterwards proceed to utilize their training
in a foreign land. Neither is it possible for the productions of a country to
increase in any great degree, unless there be a simultaneous normal
increase in the numbers of consumers among the people. And if we leave the
10 — 133179. Sweden /.
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