This was an editorial published in the 24 April 1905 Denver Republican -- just over a century ago about the time many of our ancestors immigrated to America, Canada, and other countries: THE GREAT RUSH OF IMMIGRANTS The fact that on one day last week nearly 10,000 immigrants arrived at the port of new York, and that up to the close of last Thursday, the twentieth of this month, 62,791 arrivals at the same port had been recorded for April, is a demonstration that there is a great movement of homeseekers from the old world to this country. The first twenty days of this month showed an increase of more than 24,000 immigrants compared with the corresponding period of April, 1904; and if it is an indication of the volume of immigration for the year, 1905 will be placed high in rank among years of heavy immigration. These people come from nearly all parts of Europe, although the largest percentage are from countries in the southern and southeastern sections of the continent. In the fact that so many different nationalities are represented there is assurance that the new population will be more readily assimilated than it would be if all came from one country and spoke the same language. We need have no fear on account of the coming of so many aliens. Experience teaches that they soon lose many of their peculiar characteristics, and that in a vast majority of cases their children born in the United States grow up as Americans, fully imbued with the American spirit, possessing a better command of English than of the tongue their fathers spoke, and as much in love with liberty as the children of a long line of American ancestors. There is, however, an important problem to be considered in this connection, and this is the distribution of the alien population throughout the country. It is not desirable that a large number of immigrants of one nationality should congregate in a single community in new York City. It were better that they should be distributed throughout the Union, so that they would come more directly into contact with the distinctly American population. Commissioner of Immigration Sergeant has given much thought to this subject, and he is endeavoring to secure the establishment on Ellis island of an exhibit of the products of the different states, so that from it immigrants may obtain helpful information in regard to the choice of a locality in which to settle.