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peans to the United States in search of economic advancement. It is, of course, true that social conditions in the lands from which they came were factors of no little importance in their decision to migrate, but the choice of America as a new home was largely the result of the knowledge that farms could be secured at a relatively small cost. To some the United States was a "haven of refuge" from religious, political and class oppression, a "land of opportunity" where all might have freedom to worship as they wished and to be free from governmental interference in the details of their lives, but had it not been for the existence of a great public domain with almost unlimited possibilities for economic success, few would have chosen such a remote and unknown destination. It