The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-11-06
IMMIGRATION PROBLEM
Restrictions Placed Upon I'm
desirable Newcomers.

The Appeals From Orders of DepOr-
tation Heard Ia Neutrality-suspicious.
Notable Examples - Antinnarchist
Sentiment and Prospective Com
gressional Legislation.
Much Of the practical routine of the
Office of the commissioner general Of
immigration consists in deciding APP
peals from the orders of deportation
made at the immigrant stations, writes
the Washington correspondent Of the
New York Evening Post Every immi-
grant whose deportation is ordered is
notified that he has 4 right to make an
appeal to the department. 1t is neces-
sary only for him to say, Il appeal
from the decision" and the papers in
his case come to Washington for re-
view. Occasionally an intending immi-
grant will employ lawyer to argue
his cause. while in many instances the
claim is so weak that the rejected per-
sons do not take the trouble even to
ask for an appeal.
AS an example of what these depor-
tatiOn cases are, take three decided in
a single morning. Abraham WantZ had
been rejected by the New York officers
because he was suffering from valvu-
lar disease Of the heart and had no
money. He was a middle aged Austri-
an, whose passage had been paid here
by a brother living in MckeespOrt, Pa,
but there was no certainty that his
brother would not allow him to be-
come a public charge. Abraham Diem
stag. another Austrian, thirty-fve years
old, had left a wife and two children
at home to make a start in the new
world. He also was found to be suffer
ing with valvular disease of the heart
and was accordingly returned. Luciano
Palmiera, an Italian laborer and ap-
parently an invalid. fifty-eight years
old, had left a wife and two children in
Italy to come here. His total capital
was but $11 on arrival, and he was SO
emaciated that he was thought too
weak to earn living. He has no rela-
tiyes here.
In each Of these cases Commissioner
Powderly sustained the order of de-
portation, although he says that it is a
hard thing to do in view of the ire
mendOus disappointment it occasions.
Most of the people sent back have
doubtless been gathering pennies for
years and have finally sacrificed ev-
erything they possessed to get to Amer
lea. Their impoverished families at
home are in the meantime subsisting
on the hope that when their relatives
begin to work here some money will
flow across to them. To be sent back
is for these immigrants a crushing
blow, relieved only by the possibility
that they may go somewhere else, for
the United States is about the only
country i'll the world that is doing
much in the way of immigration re-
strictiOn.
Canada and most of the countries OF
South America, though Offering a less
desirable home. are constantly inviting
immigrants. While Canada has for
years been stirring up the inhabitants
of continental Europe to migrate, it IS
Sdlu JI0U the EOSullS Vi H6I dSildliOl
have Injured to the advantage or dis
advantage, as the case may be, of the
United States. Most of the immigrants
who reach Canada find the climate
rather severe and decide to go little
farther and cross the line into the
United States.
1t is not unknown for states in the
American Union to have commissions
for the encouragement of immigration
from Europe, but their work does not
conflict with the restrictive measures
of the immigration service, nor would
their policy be antagoniZed by the eX-
Clusion plans which have frequently
been proposed for congressional ac-
ton and viii doubtless come up again
this winter. Maryland has such an I'M
migration commission. which senGs a
representative to Europe each year to
distribute literature and otherwise eH-
courage those who may be thinking
Of coming this way. This commission
publishes in the Maryland newspapers
from time to time reports CT It's work.
Its efforts are Of course directed &C.
ward the western EGropean and rot &c