River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-12

New York.-Strict and eXacting i'm
migration laws are of the utmost neces-
sity. Were this not the case the country
would soon become the refuge of Eu-
ropes paupers and beggars.
The federal statutes that provide for
the admittance of foreigners are sup
posed to cover every possible case and
the officials at Ellis Island are COM
PEELED to act in strict accordance with
the law which does not provide for
emergencies.
1t was the result of the laws failure to
provide for emergencies that the Off
Gals were recently compelled to deport
a newborn American citizen.
1t is against the law to deport an
American citizen. The law does not
specify any age limit in citizenship. 1t
simply says that child born on Ameri-
can soil of alien parents is an American
citizen.
The baby in question was not born on
terra firma, but it was born within the
three-mile harbor limit placed by law
as the boundary between American soil
and the high seas. He is therefore an
the rights and privileges Thereof, and his
deportation has raised a most curious
and involved question in immigration
litigation.
The baby's parents are Lolita and Her
man Romanik, both Russian Jews, both
% years of age, and both immigrants,
or, as the law calls them, aliens.
Comes to Make His Fortune.
Over three years ago Romanik came
to this country from Russia. He was
young, healthy, capable. and was adj
mitted through Ellis island without the
slightest trouble. 1t was a good start
to his fortune in the new land. He was a
tailor by trade and with the industry
and pertinacity of his race he estab-
lished himself in short order in a small
shop on Attorney street.
The shop thrived, so did Romanik's
lovemaking. Back in his Russian home
lived Lolita, the sweetheart of his boy
hood, and the girls of the East side Ghet-
to had no claim for the busy little tailor,
as he worked steadily month in, month
out, and dreamed of the day when he
should bring Lolita home as a bride.
Fourteen months ago the dream was
realized. Romanik would not let the
girl make the trip alone. Between Rus
STA and Attorney street lie many slips
for straying immigrant feet Not the
least is Ellis island.
Returns for His Bride.
Romanik made the long trip back home
and returned to America with his bride
Both were passed by the medical exam
liner and board of special inquiry at Ell
lis island. To all appearances at that
time the wife was in perfect health-s
pretty, rosy-cheeked peasant girl, brim-
full of happiness and hope over the golden
future in the land of plenty.
Romanik had already rented and fur
nished little fiat over his shop, and the
honeymoon was a prosperous one. At
torney street is in the heart of the east
side Ghetto. On a. sides of it branch
the streets of the pushcart district 1t is
generally the first business venture of
the immigrant Jew-the pushcart
There is one grade lower yet. The
swinging shelf of collar buttons or shoe
strings that hang from the necks of curb
vendors in the Ghetto market place.
The Romaniks were above both grades.
They were respected and well liked in
the neighoorhood, and by virtue of his
having store business" of his own
Romanik was adjudged rising young
man. When it was rumored there was a
possibility Of his having son to bear
his name the news was accepted as but
another sign of the good luck which had
followed him since his first landing 81
the country.
Clouds Hover Over Home.
The cloud of trouble fell darker oyer