The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-02-02

of persons not lawfully entitled to land
in the United States are annually re
ceiyed at this port. In fact, one of the
commissioners of immigration himself
testified that the local administration
of affairs at Castle Garden by the
method and system now followed was
q perfect farce.
PAuPERs AND INSANE NOW COMING.
Upon this subject the committee in
vite attention to the testimony of DR..
Hoyt, for twenty years connected with
the board of charities and correction,
who testified that every charitable in
stitution in the state OF New York is
now not only filled with occupants,
but overflowIng, and that the state an
nually expeuds in taking care of pau
pers, insane persons, &C., $20, 900 900,
and that this condition OF affairs is
largely due to improper immigration.
The investigation at Pittsburg, Pa
elected the fact that over five hundred
immigrant paupers and insane persons
were received at that city within the
last six years, the great majority OF
whom were admitted through the port
of New York, and that many of these
pauper immigrants bore upon their
clothing the branded name of the
workhouse of which they had recently
been inmates in Ireland.
The investigation of Boston disclosed
that few years ago all organized effort
was made by the officials of Great
Britain and Ireland, through and by
means of an association known as the
"Tuke society,"" to assist poor persons,
paupers, &c. to immigrate to this
country, by furnishing them with tick
cts for the necessary transportation,
and that the number of such assisted
immigrants who were landed in Bos-
ton between April 3, 1882, and July 9,
1855, was 1922, a great many of whom
subsequently became inmates OF chari-
table institutions in this country.
And by certain English statutes
guardians of the poor are authorized
10 appropriate funds at their disposal
for the purpose of exporting to other
lands persons who have become public
charges. That the English authorities
have made liberal use OF these laws j.
absolutely attested by the number of
institutions in this country. In fact
the testimony upon the subject of pau
per immigration conclusiveiy shows
that there are thousands 0falien pau
pers, insane persons and idiots all
nually landed in this country, who
become a burden and charge upon
the states where they happen to gain q
settlement, many of whom are aided
and assisted to immigration by the
oHcials OF the country whence they
came.
EvASIoNS OF PRESENT LAWS.
The report says that as no inspection
is made of immigrants along the
border between Canada and the United
States, large numbers of alien paupers,
insane persons and others not lawfully
entitled, enter the United States by
this way, the number during six
months being estimated at fifty thous.
ands. In many instances immigrants
coming to Quebec have. within forty
eight hours after their arrival, been
applicants for shelter in New York
almshouses and the charitable institu-
tioHs of Wayne county, Mich, are
filed to overhowing from this cause.
The report next recites testimony to
show that criminals are shipped to the
| United States by officials of foreign
governments, an association for this
purpose existing in Germany, and the
officials OF Great Britain and Switzer-
land have persisted in the course, even
after having been requested by our
government to discontinue it.
OF the contract law the report SAYS
that it is easily evaded and, to large
extent, in spirit, while the letter is
usually observed. This state of affairs
is said to be owing to inadequate
machinery and not to want oI
diligence on the part of officials. The
committee believes that the enforce.
ment of all acts to regulate immigration
should be instrusted to the federal
| government and not to the states.
Chinese immigration was not investi
gated for lack of time.
TIME TO DRAW THE LINE.
On the subject of immigration gen.
orally the committee, after speaking
favorably of its benefits in the past
says:
"From the inquiry we have made we
believe that the time has now come to
draw the line-to select the good from
the bad, and to sift the wheat from the
chaff. To any person familiar with She
result OF the committees investigation
it must be apparent that this country
cannot properly assimilate the immi-
grafton now coming to our shores.
"Take the class OF persons known as
anarchists for instance. A few years
ago they principally lived in Germany.
The officials of that empire determined
to get rid of them. Their newspapers
were suppressed; they were forbidden
to hold meetings; they were prosecuted
in different ways until Germany be
came an unpleasant abiding place fol
them. They then immigrated to Eng
land in large numbers, but the officials
there made it so uncomfortable fo
them that they came to the United
States. Here they have proven law
less, turbulent class, and the whole
country is familiar with their recen
acts of violence.
"These disorierly persons do no
come here to uphold and maintain ou
form of government. Their object ant
purpose is to destroy and tear it t,
pieces. They hold any law in contemp
which does not meet with their iudi.
vidual appreciation and believe disob
edience to it is perfectly justifia BILE
This class of persons, in the judgmen
of the committee, ought to be rigidl,
excluded from entering this country.
THE COAL BARoNS' SLAVES.
"Generally speaking, the class OF im
migrants who have lately been import
ed and employed in the coal regions u
this country are not such, in the opin
ion OF the committee, as would max
desirable inhabitants of the Unite,
States. They are OF very low orde
of intelligence. They do not come her
with the intention of becoming citizens
their whole purpose being to accumu
late by parsimonious, rigid and IN
, healthy economy a sum OF money au
then return to their native land. The
live in miserable sheds like beasts; tn
, food they eat is SO meager, scant, III
wholesome and revolving that it woul
, nauseate and disgust an America
! workman, aud he would find ii difficu
to sustain life upon it.
! Their habits are vicious, their Gus
, toms are disgusting and the effect .
their presence here upon our soci
condition is to be deplored. They hay
3 not the influences, as we understau
( them, OF home; they do not kuo
2 what the word means, and in the opil