Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
A POPULAR DEMAND
For Measures Intended to
Restrict Further Pauper
immigration.
SOME DEMOCRATS READY
10 Take It Up as Party Issue, but
Republicans Will Join Them.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY AN EXAMPLE,
According to StatisticianS, Of the Evils Of
the Present System.
SOME DEMOCRATS READY
ALLEGHENY COUNTY AN EXAMPLE,
STATEMENTS THAT ARE STARTLING

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
WASHINGTON, Dec 3-There are many
indications that the Democratic leaders are
seriously considering the advisability oi
adopting the anti-immigration issue. They
still expect TO revise the tariff, but many OF
them believe that move in line of restrict
Ing the foreign influx would rebound to the
popularity of the coming administration.
The matter has been considered by such
men as German and Mills in the Senate,
and Bynum and Fellows in the House. Con-
gresham Oates, who was Chairman of the
Homestead Investigating Committee, is
understood to be decidedly in favor of such
o move. l fear confence of Democratic
leaders is held the question will certainly
be exhaustively discussed.
Providing the Democrats propose any
such step there is little likelihood that they
will meet with much partisan opposition.
Indeed, this reform has been hitherto
championed by Republicans. one of the
most prominent of whom has been Con-
gresham W. A. Stone, of the Allegheny
district A few carefully-gathered facts
will serve to illustrate the dangers threat
ening from the present system of gathering
the poverty-stricken, the diseased and the
criminal of foreign nations for shipment to
America
Chinese Comparatively Desirable.
During the year 1891 twice as many
Hebrews as are now in the Holy Land dis
embarked at the port of New York. Prsc-
tically all of them were paupers, and Co.
900 OF them came from Russia Compared
with them the Chinese are most desirable
citizens There are s. 500, 900 more of them in
Russia, and they are all coming over. The
fund of SO, 100000 given by Baron Hirch
will suffice to fetch them all to America
within few years
In 1880 there were $4,000 convicts in
prison and on tickets-of-leave in England.
At present there are less than u, ,0OG in all.
This reduction has been accomplished by
shipping British criminals to this country.
1t is most profitable system, relieving
England of dangerous citizens and signify
ing q saving OF S170 year for each person
thus transported. There are about 20 So
called Discharged Prisoners Aid Societies
IN Great Britain. While nomlnally pri-
vate benevolent organizations, they are in
reality agents of the Government Before
o convict is discharged an officer from one
Of the societies visits him in prison and ar
Fanges with him that he shall go to the
United States. He nearly always assents,
because he is only too glad to escape police i
surveillance and to get away from the
record which faces him in every court
whenever he commits new crime.
Glad to Get Rid of Him.
If he accepts the proposition the Gov
ernment hands him over to the society,
paying to the society at the same time $50.
Out of this sum the society pays $17 so for
the convict's ticket to America. An
official accompanies him to the port, buvs
his ticket, furnishes him with clothes bed
ding and other necessaries and hands him
the balance of s12 80 on the departure of
the ship.
With a view of getting rid of as many
criminals as possible in this way, the Brit
ism Government has adopted system of
imuosing a short term of imprisonment
and long term eff surveillance on offenders
against the laws. Thus after brief time
the convicts can be released and have every
inducement to get out OF the country. Not
infrequently judge will actually withhold
punishment, on condition th7t the indi-
vidual shall consent to go to the United
States
In 1865 the paupers in England and
Wales numbered a in every 200 of popu-
lation. At present they are counted at
only % in l, 900. This reduction of more
than one-half has been accomplished by
IendIng persons of this class to the United |
States Obviously, when q charge on the |
community can be got rid of forever at a |
cost OF only S17 80 to $40 for a passage |
across the ocean, 1t is much cheaper than |
to support that individual for the |
rest of his or her life. Lord Derby saws: |
'With q population already congested and |
growing at the rate of !, 500, 900 q wear, |
England must be an emigrating country. |
To dispose Of the growing swarms of the |
poorer classes is not only matter of hu- |
manity, but one also of public safety. |
Safety, that is to say, for England, but GER
tAinly a peril for the United States. Cardi- |
nal Manning says that lone of England's |
greatest blessings is her ability to get rid |
of her pauper classes through emigration"
America, of course, can be reached far more |
cheaply than any other country available |
for the purpose.
Under these circumstances it is not sur |
prising to learn that 40 per cent of the per- |
sons at gresent confined in the jails and |
usylums of the United States are foreigners. |
In New England the percentage rises to IS |
per cent.
Allegheny Held Up As An Example
During the year 1891 there were 5S homi |
eides in Allegheny county, Pa, according |
10 statistics here. All of them we're COM |
nitted by aliens or naturalized foreigners
Italy contributes the greatest number Of |
immigrants to our shores. Five thousand |
murders occur annually in that country.
These people bring hither their secret |
rocietv organizations, such as the Malta,
the objects of which are murder, highway
blackmail, theft and all other
crimes More than $50, 600 of them come
over yearly. Great numbers of them re-
urn to Italy every autumn and come back
LgGin in the spring.
They can pay fares both wavs, spend four
months in ioleness at home and yet earn in
he season they spend in the United States
more than double what they could if they
Forked in their native land all the year
,ouud. There are %, 900, 900 of these un-
desirable foreigners in Italy now, who may
,e said to be on the point of emigration to
he United States. They take nearly all of
heir earnings back home with them, being
ontent to live while here in the meanest
nd most degraded fashion. Let anybody
,bo wants to see how this sort of thing
FORKS 90 to the coal fields of Pennsylvania
nd seethe towns and villages which be-
ore the advent of this alien horde were in
sbited bv American workingmen and their
antilles in comfortable circumstances
To-day all is changed. The American
itizen is gone, and the home of his family
3 the shelter of from 10 to 20 men, with one
r two women to cook for them. These for
igners have driven out the Americans be-