No. 39.
Mr. Kasson
to Mr. Evarts.
Vienna, March 1, 1880. (Received March 22.)
Sir: A recent number of the leading journal at Pesth calls attention to the ever increasing emigration to the United States from Upper Hungary. Since last autumn, it says, about 2,000 persons have emigrated from the counties of Ober-Zemplin and Saros, where famine was feared by reason of the failure of the potato crop and want of work. Since the new year, it adds, a great number of the inhabitants of manufacturing districts in the counties of Zipsc and Abazzy have quitted their homes to establish themselves in America. Among these emigrating artisans and miners are also many Germans. It is also reported that several hundreds have emigrated from the counties of Trentsehin and Neutra.
That journal recommends the Government of Hungary to take steps to prevent this regrettable condition of things, by offering to poor people who cannot, or will not, stay in their villages, homes on the public domain of Hungary. This is the first indication I have observed in Europe of a plan at once humane and practicable to diminish emigration.
I have, &c.,