Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-06-15

ways sent at frequent intervals. They
contain opinions and f~ragmentary
facts. which are usually eliminated in
the formal report he makes on his
return from his tour. ! fancy the Hun
garian police would be more edited
by such a letter than by the report
even though the last report made was
of so sensational a character that after
a discussion in the department as to
whether it should be printed or not
in the annual it was referred directly
to President Roosevelt. There are four
copies. One is in the hands OF Mr..
Sargent, another in the care of Secre-
tary Metcalf, and a third on the presi-
dents desk, while the fourth, retained
by Mr.. Braun, is in New York in very
safe hands.
'Inasmuch as my agents and corre-
spondents operating on the continent
have at several times crossed trails
with Mr.. Braun, | am o violating a
confidence in disclosing some OF the
things which Mr.. Braun unearthed.
They are but fair samples of the
whole, and show in a startling man
ner how we are being dupcd as a peo-
pie by the immigration incitation
agencies of Europe-not alone steam
ship agencies and immigration agents,
but continental governments and
charitable societies differed by people
of high reputation.
: Exporting Criminals.
/, "For instance, Mr.. Braun learned Oh
the practice in communities where the
g iails were overcrowded of liberating
prisoners and giving them assistance
to 90 to the United States, thus treat
ing us as if we were no more than
9 a penal colony sustained for their ben
= eft. In one community in Hungary
where he conducted Investigations he
. found that in the past three years
u $50 prisoners had been liberated either
l. at the expiration of their sentence or
y before their terms were served, and
III that the police records showed 1870
OF them to have been sent to the
United States. In connection with this
ID a member of the Hungarian parlia-
~ ment, in making a speech, deplored
l. the laxness of the government in al
IL lowing criminals who had been de-
lie ported to the United States to re-
~ turn with their pockets filled and wits
y sbarpened for further nefariOus opera
DC tons.
ed "Mr. Braun also made specific disclo'
Is sures concerning institutions neal
" Buda-Pesth from which parties o.
o. pauper children were sent in the cart
le of fictitious parents, paid for the job
When this family was safely passed
n through Ellis Island the father ant
4 mother divided their ready-made
Sc progeny, and, going from city to city
abandoned the little e. on the
streets to be picked up by the police
81 and placed in American asylums.
O. "Of violations of the contract labor
law he found abundant traces. Agent:
\, representing presumably one of thu
! large railroads with terminals in New
&c York was busy soliciting Austrian la
"a borers around the head of the Adriati'
~ and shipping them in small parties tt
Il New York. They were conducted to
~ small town on the line of the rail
Il road and sorted out into the gang
which the railroad supplied to con
tractors, manufacturers and other
along the line in need Of cheap labor
Oddly enough, | reported to the de
partment on the same subject, abou
the same time, the same facts derive
from entirely different sources.
Nominal Husbands.
ION one occasion Mr.. Braun wa
sitting eating his lunch in a railwa
station at Frankfort, when a group Q
b women entered and sat down nea
" him. From their conversation he wa
VI appraised in a very short time of thei
/, disorderly character, and by payin
close attention learned that one c
4 them was even then on her way to tn
United States, with the intention {
going to st. Louis to join a large part
of women recruited from st. PAUL., i
Hamburg. She had letters from score
of others who had entered the Unite
p States in defiance of the laws, descril
|, ing their adventures and relating no
luC dSCulD VIZ VIZ -
scheme provided each with a nomin'
husband at the foot Of the %gangplan,
From later observations and investig,
tions he was convinced that Thousand
of these women had entered the Unite
: States in the months Of May and Jul
alone.
SIN Jerusalem he found a most int
esting and amusing variation Of frau
ulent naturalization. For a lol
period of time a large colony Of Jey
had been living there in more or lie
luxury on the proceeds of begging lie
tiers which they sent out to religio
and charitable people in all parts
the world. The Turkish police, divi
ing at last that there was somethil
Illicit in the livelihood of these poop
demanded a share, and when they d
not get it the letter writing begga
had their houses broken open, we
dragged out and beaten until they
u divide. AT last n Of them secur
LIS a citizenship paper from his broth
" in Chicago and on the next occasi
re- of a police visit he appealed to t
iich consul, DR.. Merrill, and the police we
set back. Immediately the demand
'eeh American citizenship papers raised t
lese market &C hieb &c s1oo nor certi6ca
and now the colony is enjoying the f
'eie privileges of American protectit
oe though many Of them have never Sc
Wy the Atlantic.
~ Caught in the Act.
Perhaps the most sensational thi
in the suppressed portion of the ]
report was Mr.. Braun's presentati
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