Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04

plovs 265 vessels in this traffic. -Four
thousand sub-agents in Italy are engaged in
drumming up emigrants and persuading
them to embark, and these agents utilize
! the services of countless runners to assist
them, receiving 50 for each emigrant.
Folders printed for advertising purposes by
railways in the United States are distributed
broadcast, stating that millions of square
miles of land are to be had for nothing in
Dakota and elsewhere.
Pamphlets are similarly circulated, set
| ting torthtthe wonderful resources of Amer
lea, and on the maps accompanying them
the swamps of Florida and the alkali beds
of the West look as well as the most fertile
lands The ignorant people are led to be-
lieve that each one of them can become the
owner of 160 productive acres by simply
squatting on it, and that grapes grow wild
along the railways of Texas. Thew are
told that they will be boarded and lodged
at Castle Garden until work is found for
them by the immigration officials, whose
business it is to supply them with employ
ment
Reaching New York without a penny
immigrants in general who are bound for
such distant points as Portland, Ore, or
Bismarck, Dak., usually suppose that those
localities are within easy walking distance.
On discovering the swindle of which they
have been the victims they turn to the
crowded centers of population.
The Poorer the Easier to Come.
There is no foreign pauper so poor as not
to be able to get to America The more
hopclessly poverty stricken he is, the more
inclined will be the alleged charitable or
CARNATIONS to send him across the water
and so get rid of him. The nations of
Europe are literally dumping their jalls,
poorhouses and asylums on the shores of
the United States. Such q system is one
of the greatest economy from their point OF
view.
These troubles which European Govern
ments are trying to shift off on the United
States by sending hither their poverty
stricken and diseased people are caused
wholly by the twin evils of landlordism aud
militarism. Nearly all of the land being in
the hands of the few, the many have been
growing steadily poorer, oppressed as they
are by taxes for the support of great armies
and navies. Consider, if you please, that
the Russian army has a peace footing of
900 men and war footing of 2, 133, ,O0O'
men, costing S13S, ,O00, 900 annually.
Pauper Italy has an army comprising
736, 900 men in time of peace, LIS, 900 men
in war, and costing $43, OOO, 600 year. The
German army has a peace footing of 445, 500
men, q war footing of 492, 600 men, and
costs SOS, 600, 900 annually The army of
France mas 500, 900 men in peace, 1888, 600
men in war, and costs S114, 900, 600 a year.
Compare with the above statement the fact
that the armv of the United States num-
bers only 25, 745 IN peace, including officers,
with a war footing of 3,165, 900, and costing
$40, ,466, 900 annually. These reckonings do
not include the navies of the various coun-
tries mentioned. OF course, each soldier
Il i L.. f1A To-
years, during which he produces nothing,
being supported by the industrial people.
These causes have so impoverished
Europe that the situation there is becoming
exceedingly alarming. In London the fear
of an uprising by the very poor has become
so great that merchants along the Strand
and other great shopping streets have their
windows protected by iron shutters
Europe has reached the starvation line,
which cannot be passed without tremend-
GUS social convulsion-
Nearly Million q Year.
The number of immigrants who come to
the United States from abroad is reckoned
officially at COG, ,O000 annually. In reality
it is nearly 1000, 600. When it Is eonsid-
cred that two children are commonly
counted as one person, that the steamers
bring many people over and above their
lawful complement who are not put down
in the manifests, that the companies land
large forces W no are designated for the sake
of convenience as stewards or employees,
that tramp steamers fetch thousands to
smaller ports whose arrival are never
that great numbers come in the
second cabin and are not reckoned as immi- |
grants on that account, aud finally that as
sisted paupers sent via Canada are continu- |
ally swarming over the border into the |
United States-when all these unquestioned |
facts are taken into account it will be seen |
that the maximum estimate is not too large. |
Immigration Commissioner Schulteis, |
who has made a most diligent and profound |
study of this question, expresses the |
opinion that, if things should be permitted |
10 continue as at present, within Is years
from now poverty would he as prevalent in |
he United States as it is in Europe. The |
notion popularly entertained that there is
IN almost unlimited area of unoccupied |
ands in this country for immigrants to
make their homes upon is wholly an error.
AS a matter of fact, the unoccupied lands
lvailable for agriculture within the limits
IF Uncle Sans domain are nearly all in the
hands of railways and SPECTATORS. They |
1old it at good prices and paupers from
Europe cannot afford to buy it
ADrain on Our Resources.
1t is true that the people of the United
States support no great army and navy, but
hey actually paw more money annually for
var than does Russia, or italy, or Ger
nany, or France, the pension list already
INVOLVING an expenditure amounting to
Tery nearly $500, 000, 900 a year. Because
he imported paupers cannot pay for lands
hey sit down in the industrial centers and
compete in a manner that is ruinous with
American labor.
As soon as Congress convenes q food of
,ills will be offered for the restriction of
his evil The Commissioners of Immigra-
ion have recommended in their report the
appointment by the Government of inspec-
ors of immigration to reside at all i'm
,ortant seaports of Europe whence emil
rants embark. They suggest that three
esident officials might be located at Lon
lon, Berlin and Naples, with local agents
lnder their direction at the principal ports
# embarkation. It would be the duty of
hese agents to furnish credentials to desir-
Ible emigrants, rejecting the undesirable
nd thus sitting them before they started
or America
The present system of inspection at
United States ports, which is wretchedly
Effective, should be reorganized, and it
hould be supplemented by the adoption of
similar system along the Canadian and
dexican frontiers 1t Is further urged that
protective per capita tax should be placed
IN all immigrants, and certain reforms
hould be made in the regulations govern
ms the transportation of immigranta
VIII End His Life in Ireland,