; MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES 
plotting, so that it is only the shape of the curves and not their 
vertical distance from the base line which is significant. Though 
the movement from Sweden did not reach its peak until 1888, on 
the whole the proportion of total immigration contributed by each 
of these countries declined during the greater part of the period 
CHART 35 
fa TT a Fa Ee 
RATIO OF IMMIGRATION FROM THE STATED 
COUNTRY TO TOTAL IMMIGRATION® 
1870-1914 : 
THE"NEW'SOURCES 
SCALES OF 
TOTAL PERCENTAGE 
ForaL, CHANGE 
Arve AT 200 — 
e 160 
y 120 
80 
Decrease 
40 
20 | 
S 0 
10 
only the relative'slope, not the | = 
vertical position, of these curves Increase | 
is significant ® 
50 
60 
EPA Fao GaSe i SRO ood 7 peo Sp pp AO 2 
Years Ending June 30 
«Numerical data in Tables 4 and 45. 
»For more a complete discussion of the method of constructing the above chart, see 
footnote (b) to Chart 27, in Chapter VII. 
since 1870. The probable causes of substantial deviations from 
the general trend for any one country, such as the sharp rise in the 
proportion from England in 1895, from Germany in 1904, or from 
Ireland in 1895 and 1905, will be considered later in the chapter, 
when analyzing the conditions peculiar to each of the leading 
emigrant countries. 
Chart 35 is similar to 34, except that it presents the data for the 
leading “new’’ sources of immigration. For each of these countries, 
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