The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-23


the official brooms of European gov
ernments.
Horror Of the Situation.
The awful horror of this situation
may best be realized when it is known
that immigrants land in this country
at the rate of thousands daily.
In 1903 immigrants from Russia.
Slavonia and Poland came in at the
rate of one minute for every working
hour of Ellis Island.
During the last fiscal year undersir-
able immigrants arrived at the rate of
two per minute, tens of thousands of
them criminals, tens of thousands of
dissolute women, and hordes of them
with diseased baggage bearing coun-
terfeit stamps of certification.
Broughton Brandenburg, the we'll
known Investigator of immigration,
who was on the continent pursuing
lines of work parallel to Mr.. Braun's,
gave the following statement to the
New York World regarding the causes
leading to the arrest of that investi-
gator in Buda-Pesth:
''It seems to me as though the Hun
garian secret police have got hold of
report, or, rather, an advisory fore
cast of his formal report, which Mr..
Braun should have mailed from Buda-
Pesth about the time of his arrest.
''These advisory letters he has al
ways sent at frequent intervals. They
contain opinions and fragmentary
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 letter than by the report
even though the last report made was
of so sensational 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 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 CORE
spondents operating on the continent
have at several times crossed trails
with Mr.. Braun, 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 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 of
the practice in communities where the
jails were overcrowded of iiberating
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
280 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, in making a speech, deplored
the laxness of the government in al
lowing criminals who had been de-
ported to the United States to re-
turn with their pockets filled and wits
sharpened for further nefarious opera
lions.
'Mr. Braun also made specific disclo-
sures concerning institutions near
Buda-Pesth from which parties of
pauper children were sent in the care
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 on the
streets to be picked up by the police
and placed in American asylums.
'Of violations of the contract labor
law he found abundant traces. Agents
representing presumably one of the
large railroads with terminals in 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
small town on the line of the rail-
road and sorted out into the gangs
which the railroad supplied to con-
tractors, manufacturers and others
along the line in need of cheap labor.
Nominal Husbands.
con one occasion Mr.. Braun was
sitting eating his lunch in a railway
station at Frankfort, when a group of
women entered and sat down near
him. From their conversation he was
appraised in very short time of their
disorderly character, and by paying
close attention leaned 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
of women recruited from st. Paul., in
Hamburg She had letters from scores
of others who had entered the United
States in defiance of the laws, describ-
ing their adventures and relating how
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