The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08

i peStA about the time OF MS arrest.
These advisory letters he has al
ways sent at frequent intervals. They
contain opinions and fragmentary
facts, which are usually eliminated il
the formal report he makes on his
return from his tour, fancy The Hun.
j garian police would be more edited
by such q letter than by the report
even though the last report made was
of 50 sensational character that after
| a discussion in the department IS to
| whether it should be printed or not
in the annual ii was referred directly
copies. One is IN the hands OF Mr..
/ Sargent, another in the care Of Secre-
7 tary MetcaIf, and a third on the presi-
i 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, I am not 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 duped as a PEG
pie by the immigration notation
agencies of Earope-not alone steam
ship agencies and immigration agents,
but continental governments and
charitable societies Offered by people
Of high reputation.
Exporting Criminals.
.For instance, Mr.. Braun learned Of
the practice in communities where the
jails were overeroWded OF liberating
prisoners and giving them assistance
to go to the United States, thus treat
ing Us as if we were no more than
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
$50 prisoners had been liberated either
at the expiration of their sentence or
before their terms were served, and
that the police records showed $50
Of them to have been sent to the
United States In connection with this
a member Of the Hungarian parlia=
ment, ii making a speech. daplored
the layness Of the government in al
lowing criminals who had teen de-
ported . the United States to re-
turn with their pockets flIej ana wits
sharpened for further nefarioas opera
tions.
Mir. Braun also made specific 1iselo-
sures concerning Institutions near
Buda-Pesth from which parties of
palper children were sent i'll the ca,e
Of fictitious parents, paid for the job.
When this family was safely passed
through Ellis Island the father and
mother divided their ready-made
progeny, and, going from city to city.
abandoned the little ones o. the
streets to be picked up by the police
and placed in American asylums.
ss0f violations Of the contract labor
law he found abundant traces. Agents
representing presumably one OF the
large railroads with terminals il New
York was busy soliciting Austrian la |
borers around the head Of the Adriatic |
and shipping them in small parties to
New York. They were conducted to a /
small town On the line Of the rail- /
road and sorted ont into the gangs
which the railroad supplied to con-
tractors, manufacturers and others
along the line III need Of cheap labor.
Oddly enough, I reported to the de-
partment On the same subject. about /
the same time. the same facts derived /
from entirely different sources.
Nominal Husbands. ~
..On one occasion Mr.. Braun was
sitting eating his lunch in railway
station at Frankfort when group Of
women entered and sat down near
him. From their conversation he was
in a very short time Of their
disorderly character, and BY paying
close attention learned that one of
them was even then On her way to the
United States, with the intention Of
going to st. Louis to join large party
If women recruited from st. PAUL. in
She had letters from scores
# others who had entered the United
States in defiance of the laws, describ-
he agents who were conducting the
scheme provided each with a nominal
husband at the foot of the gangplank.
from later observations and inyestiga-
ions he was convinced that thousands
i these women had entered the United
States in the months of May and June
tlone.
IN Jerusalem he found most inter
sting and amusing variation OF fraud
llent naturalization For a long
period Of time a large colony Of Jews
lad been living there in more or less
uxury on the proceeds Of begging let
ers which they sent out to religious
md charitable people in all parts of
he world. The Turkish police. diyin- ;
ng at last that there was something
Illicit in the livelihood of these people.
demanded share, and when they did !
lot get it the letter-Writing beggars
lad their houses broken open. were {
ragged out and beaten until they did {
iiyide. At last one Of them secured {
/. citizenship paper from his brother t
n Chicago and on the next occasion
+ police visit he appealed to the !
onsul, Dr.. Merrill, and the police were
ct back. Immediately the demand for S
american citizenship papers raised the ]
aarket as high as 500 per certificate.
I'd now the colony is enjoying the full |
flyIeges Of American protection. S
dough many Of them have never seen S
be Atlantic. Z