Evening journal., 1891-11-17
HOW PAUPERS GET HERE
Startling Story of immigration
Commissioner Schulteis.
IN THE sTEBRAGB IN DISGUISE

ready weakening and blighting the social
structure Of the North Americad conti-
nent, came to an unsuccessful end yester-
day when Mr.. Herman j, Sehulteis, one Of
the special commissioners sent abroad by
the treasury department. to scour Europe
In search Of facts. arrived among the
steerage passengers Of the Cunard steam
ship Servia disguised as pauper only to
find, 1t is said, that the immigration Of
ficials OF New York, headed by Colonel
Weber, the superintendent, had set their
faces against such a serious attempt to ex-
pose the utter mockery OF the present sys-
tenn Of inspection.
Congress May Take IL Up.
When the facts ascertained by Commits
sioner Schulteis in his wanderings through
Europe disguised in the different national
costumes become known there will be a
wave Of Indignation throughout the coun-
try. The most vital facts will, OF course,
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. The labor organizations OF
the country, together with all other bodies
who have been studying the situation with
increasing alarm, will also make their SEN
timents known.
Encouraged by England.
The commissioners went TO Europe In
July, Mr.. Schulteis reaching England in
company with Commissioners Cross, Pow
aerly and Kempster. Later on Colonel
Weber joined them. Before his arrival the
four gentlemen made particularly thor
0ugh 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 ia this work
Of loading down America with the dregs
Of European slums, the scores of organiza-
| lions engaged ia the work have such a
Masonic connection with the authorities
as to put it beyond doubt that the system
was encouraged officially,
Commissioner Powdsrly's Discovery.
| Commissioners Kempster and Weber
went TO Russia principally to study the
Jewish question. The other commission
srs divided up France, Italy, Holland,
Germany and Belgium between them
Commissioner Powderly discovered in the
south Of France a systematic collection OF
abandoned women for shipment to the
United States.
Disguised as Dutch Laborer.
Commissioner Schulteis disguised him
self in Holland as Dutch laborer, combed
his hair down over his forehead, let his
4 beard grow and wore wooden shoes, sleep
, ing in emigrapt houses where committees
gathered destitute candidates for Ameri-
, IAN warehouses and worming himself into
The secrets Of the system
He found the facts 20 be exactly opposite
n fhnan civ fp ln nlfn Il,
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 different cos
tune, and found everywhere traces OF the
vast army Of agents who are wheedling,
/, leluding and seducing the credulous pop
IIlations Of the most ignorant sections Of
Italy, TO the misery Of the overcrowded
Italian colonies Of America, and for whatp
simply TO collect a commission on the
steamship tickets sold.
Deceiving the Commissfonsr.
Everywhere he found evidences that
governments, committees, powerful steam
ship lines, railways in Europe and in
America were all Joined together in one
vast secret combination, driving over the
ocean whole populations, regardless Of law
and the result 20 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
Eons were set aside and rejected in the
presence OF the single commissioner and
as soon as his back was turned were hur-
Fied on board and sent across to swell the
great army in America.
Discoveries in London.
At last they returned to England, and
Commissioner Schulteis resumed his series
Of secret trips through the slums OF Lon
don, disguised in hobnRils and ragged
clothes. Every emigration society he
visited was willing to aid paupers to
America; there was no future for them in
England.
For Instance, Mr.. Schulteis went to Mr..
wilkins, the secretary OF the London Soci-
sty for the Prevention of pauper Alien
Emigration, and after relating pathetic
story about his poverty and his utter fail
ure to support himself in England, that
gentleman gave him letter to another so
siety emitting him to a free passage to New
York. 1t was to further explore such hid
3en channels that the treasury department
sent the present commission to Europe.
How Paupers Get Here.
Schuelteis told the representative OF this
British organization that he was unable
to obtain work as he was not in good
health, and that he would have to 90 to
the poorhouse He was referred to Gem
sral John G. New, United States consul
general, for some recommendation.
General New refused to give any in
dorsement to the supposed pauper In the
face Of this the society contributed s562 to
the twenty dollars necessary for the steer
age passage on the Cunard steamship Ser
via The clerks declared that hundreds
upon hundreds of pauperized Russian
jews were passed on from England to
America upon the Endorsement Of their
consuls The whole effort OF the society
was to prevent such people from getting
lodgment in Great Britain,
Helpless Immigrant Girls.
Sehulteis discovered a shocking state of
affairs on the steamer The intimacy of
the employees of the ship with the helpless
immigrant girls grew hour by hour. One
fireman or stoker actually boasted to Com.
missioner Schultei&of his conquest over
sick girl. Often the poor creatures paid
for few mouthfuls of palatable food car
ried from the employees table by submit
ting to the most shameful eageyses There