Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-01-21
SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, JANUARY n,

gets seventy-fve cents. He makes ten
cents a head. 1t is white slavery.
Seepn
"Were you under contract"
"Only to pay my passage money"
"Do many Huns go back with
money!"
81 know about seventy-fiye. More
win 90 back next year if they live"
where do they work."
''In the mines, on new railroads, in
the coke regions and on farms. Many
get killed in the mines. Their 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 90 back
home and get married. But it is q
great lottery
what is your native languagep"
Magyar"
What is the population of Hun
garyP' s
"About 16,0OO,0 OO."
"Can 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, flour, sugar
and some mining"
"You know considerable about Hun
garyP"
II listen good to my boss who read
much in Hungarian paper l got
good ears One is a little deaf, bad.
What / hear don't 60 in one ear and
out the other"
.How do Hungarians compare with
Polesp"
"Poles come to America to stay gen
orally. They come to America to es-
cape army service. Huns do not
Poles are smart. Nearly all are young
men who come to America. Nearly
all can read and write something.
Some old Poles can 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, grocers, 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 placesp"
'Do they save money! -. e
"Much. Here in Shenandoah they
own $150,00O worth of property. So it
is all over the coal regions
"What were the Poles able to earn
in Poland at farmingPh
Half rouble day, they say
about rs cents in American money.
But that rs cents could buy as much in
Poland as 81 can here. They come to
America to escape military duty, to gel
into free country
"What do expert laborers earn in
Polandp" staE i.
| "a good workman earns one rouble
a day; buy as much as 1925 will il
America. y
"What can you say of ItaliansP"
every many come to America under
contract, like slaves. There is one
woman to hundred men, same as
Hungarian; Poles, one woman to thirty
men. Italians are lazy; come mostly
from Naples. Work very cheap ant
spend all they earn. Have no object il
life. Don't do America any good; only
cut down wages of American working
men, like we all do"
$40 you know any reforms that thu
foreigners in America should begin?'
eyes. Stop drinking, stop stealing
and stop going to law"
"Then the best class of foreigners ar,
Polanders?"
Certainly. They come to stay. The,
make good citizens. They soon lear
to strike for higher wages, just as mncl
as Americans get"
"With all your knowledge, couldn't
you do better with 5000 in the salooi
business herep' ts----, d ~
mo, no, no! 60 back to Hupgar,
a rich man. There live like a Baron
l get married and enjoy myself for al
my trials here. IN. Y. San.
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