The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-01-26

linen you WORK cheap and cut down
the average rate of wages for labor in
American"
"Oh, yes. Some foreigners are
brought to America under contract TO
work three years, They get sixty-five
cents q day, and their boss or agent
gets seventy-fve cents. He makes ten
cents a head. 1t is white slavery.
SeeP"
Were you under contracta"
"Only to paw my passage money"
DO many Huns go back with
money!"
81 know about seventy-fve. More
will 60 back next year if they live"
'Where do they work."
s'In the mines, on new railroads, in
the coke regions and on farms. Many
get killed in the mines. ThLIr money
sent home goes to their relatives. Not
many have wives or children at home.
Strong young men come to America.
make their fortunes if they have good
luck in a few years, and then go back
home and get married. But it is a
great lottery"
what is your native lsnguage?"
Magyar"
"What is the population Of Hun.
garyf"
"About 5000, OOO."
''Csn You read or writer"
"Oh. no Few can who come to
America to work hard"
"What is the principal occupation of
your people at homer"
Farming, making rum, -four, sugar
and some mining"
"You know considerable about Hun
gary?"
al listen good TO my boss who read
much in Hungarian paper. / got
good ears. One is little deaf, bad.
What / hear don't 60 in one ear and
out the other
"How do Hungarians compare with
Poles?''
POLES come to America TO stay gen.
orally. They come to America to es-
Poles are smart. Nearly all are young
men who come 10 America. Nearly
al can read and write something.
Some old Poles can't read. They never
learn They first live like pigs, but
soon get on better and improve. They
settle in America, build churches and
become good citizens. miners, laborers,
clothiers, groccrs, shoemakers and sa-
loon keepers. Four to one come from
Lithuania, a grand duchy of Poland.
Many women and children come to
America. They settle in small places?"
"Do they save money!"
''Much. Here in Shenandoah they
own $50, 900 worth of property. So it
is all over the coal regions"
What were the Poles able to earn
in Poland at farminga"
Half a rouble a day, they say
about Do cents in American money.
But that % cents could buy as much in
Poland % 81 can here. They come to
America 10 escape military duty, to get
into free country"
"What do expert la5orers earn in
Po!and?"
"a good workman earns one rouble
, day; buy rs much as 1925 will in
America"
What can you say of Italians?"
Very many come to America undei
contract, like slaves. There is one
woman to a hundred men, same as
Hungarian; Poles. one woman to thirty
men. Italians are lazy; come mostly
from Naples. Work very cheap and
spend all they earn. Have no object in
life. Don't do America any good; only
cut down wages of American working
men. like we all do"
''Do you know any reforms that the
foreigners in America should beginr"
Yes. Stop drinking. stop stealing
and stop going TO law"
Then the best class of foreigners are
Polanders?"
Certainly. They come TO stay. They
make good citizens. They soon learn
TO strike for higher wages, just as much
rs Americans get" .
with all your knowledge, couldn't
you do better with $500 in the saloon
business hereP"
mo, no, no! I go back to Hungary
rich man. There / live like Baron.
| get married and enjoy myself for all
my trials here. ~. y Sam.