The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-01-26
GOING HOME RICH.
4 Leborer With 5000 q Baron tu
Hungary.

~ 70 c5tiNnotcu bUdt wItHlH tue past
three years over six hundred thousand
dollars have been sent to Hungary
from the Shenandoah pa region by
the foreigners who came there to
struggle for q few years by roughing
h. and then return home rich men.
These foreigners come to America,
I've like animals, send home their saw
ings, work for next to nothing. live
ohesply. and in few years save
enough to go back to Hungary and
I've on the fat of the land ever after
ward. A sample story will fit into
hundreds of communities.
A reporter met an intelligent HIM
On his way to New York. He was
bound for Hungary. He could under
stand English only fairly, but suffi-
GENTLY well to take part in converse
ton. The following conversation took
place:
. You 60 back to Hungary"
''How long have you been In Amer
leap"
"Four years."
"Your age"
'Thirty-five.
Glow much did you pay to come
kerea"
''Sixteen dollars. come under
contract. / work for my passage.
Pay to re agent so much a week until
j. is all paid"
ado many come to America in that
wsyi"
''Nearly all. A law is against it,
bat foreign labor comes in nearly every
day under contract with some agent"
''Why do you return to HungaryP"
"I have saved enough money;
worked very hard; lived like hog;
now / GO back to live like man i'm my
native country"
''How much have you saved in four
years."
:'Six hundred dollars. / sent all my
savings home by the month";"
GLOW do You send money homer
'sWith the postmasters- They do all
ear business. We trust them"
''How much can a laborer earn in
Hungary by working hardp"
tsSix guldenS q month, or about two
dollars and forty cents. In America ]
average eighteen dollars a month"
''Quite difference"
"Yes."
'sHow much could you save out OF
your eighteen dollaTsP"
s'About thirteen dollars month. It
costs five dollars a month for board
wash. tobacco, rum and boots"
Nothing for clothes?"
81 bought one suit in four years."
x,cr, cauad &c ~ 0e9A
in four years?"
81 sent home s6cO. and ss4 have to
90 back home with"
''How much does it cost you to live
10 Hungary year,"
About $50; but then 1 live very
good"
How will you invest your saw
ingss"
"Buy land or loan it ont on first
mortgage.
"HOB much interest can you get in
Hungary for your 5000 ssyings?"
Zone hundred guldens bring six
teen guldens interest year; that is,
$40 American money bring Sc. 40 in
terest year. or 5000 bring SOC year
interest to me; three times more than
it will cost me to live"
"You have closely calculated it."
''LOng days and nights / calculated.
do not overstate it, 1t is true. In
terest is high in Hungary. 1t keeps
all the people poor"
''Then you will be a little nabob
when you get back homer"
eff / get back safely will be all
right. 1t il, a great risk to come to
America. Like big lottery. Come
three thousand miles over the sea;
work hard here four years. live In q
shsnty altogether like pigss eat rough
black bread. cheap potatoes; drink bad
rum; smoke strong tobacco; live with
rough. bad men, all men and no
women; very cold in winter; nothing
clean: sleep on straw on the floor; risk
n sending money home. might get lost
at sea; might get sick, might get
killed; now 1 60 back; must GROSS the
sea once more; do 4 get. backp See
what . big risk-big Iotteryr',
Where is your bsggagep"
al have none when come; / have
acme when 60. I am baggage. No
more"
"Didycu never become citizen Of
the United .Stateef" ..~-.... .,,e..s..-,-
ssNo sir. Out Of about two Thousand
Hungarians Btmow in America only
one is q citizen 'neTd HTe Toy 3'f'f'" -
''What is the highest 'wsges you ever
got In America?" -@s3
Ninety cents sdAy."
The loweste" go"
FIFTY cents"
"How muohr did it average you for
boArde" j es,rtsa" ,ti" ;s>59s'''' e..
ssFive doliafsa month. One man do
ne cooking for twenty Huns. We pay
b so much apiece TO psy for ait
"Bo ai Hum sfiaus I've ia that way
hero4 s1sss5 won 5ssa b1i& ,4lG19ii-A~ 80 4
'sNineltAnths .of all who come to-
America to stay only few years joia
hocNkher and live sbe6D Ia k,aS WAY %