Connecticut western news., 1891-11-19
HOW PAUPERS GET HERE
Startling Story of Immigration
 Commissioner Schulteis.
IN THE sTEERAGE IN DISGUISE.

Country by Foreign Societies.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-One of the most extraordinary attempts ever made by the United States gover nment to fathom the mysterious, world wide system under which the govern ments of Europe pouring in hordes of paupers, imbeciles, criminals and other elements that are al ready weakening and blighting the social structure of the North Americad conti- nent, came to an unsuccessful end yester- day when Mir. Herman J. Schulteis, one of the special commissioners sent abroad by the treasury department to SCOUT Europe in search of facts, arrived among the steerage passengers of the Cunard steam ship Servia disguised as pauper, only to find it is said, that the immigration of ficials of New York, headed by Colonel Weber, the superintendent, had set their faces against such serious attempt to ex- pose the utter mockery of the present sys- tenn of inspection. 'a '-.
 Congress May Take It Up.
 When the facts ascertained by Commis- sioner Schulteis in his wanderings through Europe disguised in the different national costumes become known there will be wave of indignation throughout the coun-
 
 be incorporated in the report which he and his associates must make privately to the secretary of the treasury, after which there is no doubt the matter will be taken up by congress for some definite and stringent legislation.
 Encouraged by England.
 The commissioners went to Europe in July MT. Schulteis reaching England in company with Commissioners Cross, Pow derly and Kempster. Later on Colonel Weber joined them. Before his>arrival the four gentlemen made particularly thor ough search into the system of gathering paupers, criminals and helpless children in Great Britain for shipment to America. They found that while the British govern ment did not take any part in this work of loading down America with the dregs of European slums, the scores of organiZa- tions engaged in the work have such a Masonic connection with the authorities as to put it beyond doubt that the system was encouraged officially.
 Commissioner Powderly's Discovery. Commissioners Kempster and Weber | went to Russia principally to study the Jewish question. The other commission CTS divided up France, Italy, Holland, Germany and Belgium between them. | Commissioner Powderly discovered in the south of France systematic collection of abandoned women for shipment to the | United States.
 | Disguised as a Dutch Laborer. | Commissioner Schulteis disguised him. l self in Holland as a Dutch laborer, combed | his hair down over his forehead, let his beard grow and wore wooden shoes, sleep ing in emigrant houses where committees gathered destitute candidates for Ameri- can work and worming himself into the secrets of the system.
 He found the facts to be exactly opposite to those given to the public. He was driven to the most desperate expedients to avoid detection, and had actually in one country to change his disguise behind a cart in the street. In Italy he donned a different cos tune, and found everywhere traces of the vast army of agents who are wheedling deluding and seducing the credulous pop ulations of the most ignorant sections oi Italy, to the misery of the overcrowded | Italian colonies of America, and for what | simply to collect a commission on the steamship tickets sold.
 Deceiving the Commissioner.
 Everywhere he found evidences thai governments, committees, powerful steam ship lines, railways in Europe and il America were all joined together in one | vast secret combination, driving over the ocean whole populations, regardless of law and the result to the American republic At Naples, while one commissioner stood watching the embarkation of emigrants for America, two other commissioners un known to the steamship company secretly regarded the process.
 They saw that utterly disqualified per sons were set aside and rejected in the presence of the single commissioner an6 as soon as his back was turned were hur ried on board and sent across to swell the great army in America
 Discoveries in London.
 At last they returned to England, anG | Commissioner SchuIteis resumed his serie! of secret trips through the slums of Lon don, disguised in hobnails and ragged clothes Every emigration society h' visited was willing to aid paupers tt America; there was no future for them il England.
 For instance, MT. Schulteis went to MT Wilkins, the secretary of the London Soci ety for the Prevention of Pauper Aliel Emigration, and after relating patheti story about hls poverty and his utter fail ure to support himself in England, tha gentleman gave him a letter to another so ciety entitling him to free passage to Nev York It was to further explore such hid den channels that the treasury departmen sent the present commission to Europe. , How Paupers Get Here. Schuelteis told the representative of thi British organization that he was unabl to obtain work as he was not in goo' health, and that he would have to go t. the poorhouse. He was referred to Gen eral John c. New, United States consu general, for some recommendation General New refused to give any in l dorsement to the supposed pauper. In tn face of this the society contributed $5 62 t - the twenty dollars necessary for the steer $ age passage on the Cunard steamship Ser
 via. The clerks declared that hundred upon hundreds of pauperized Russia , Jews were passed on from England t America upon the indorsement of thei . consuls. The whole effort of the societ was to prevent such people from getting
 Judgment in Great Britain.
 Helpless Immigrant Girls.
 Schulteis discovered shocking state ( the employees of the ship with the helples S immigrant girls grew hour by hour On | fireman or stoker actually boasted to Con missioner Schulteis of his conquest over r sick girl. Often the poor creatures pal S for few mouthfuls of palatable food ca Q ried from the employees table by submi l ting to the most shameful caresses. Ther = seemed to be no safeguard for virtue, n {, pity for innocence. At night carnalit
 reigned on the steerage deck.
 VICTORY FOR BULkELEY.