Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-15

reports or the bureau showing tho amount of money possessed by each immigrant when he lands demonstrates the fact that very small percentage have sufficient means on their arrival to guarantee self-support unti; able to create an income Whether possessed of resources in the shape of relatives and friends or not, 1t is evident that the ignorant foreigner must possess unusual energy and persistence or else be blessed with unusual good fortune to avoid a condition immediately sub sequent to his arrival where he is like. ly to need public or private charity.
 "But for the prompt action of tho bureau in deporting a number of per- sons whose passages to the United States were paid by charitably inclined people, relief organizations. or even by oficial bodies having charge of the poor there would have been a general movement throughout Europe to ship all native paupers to the United States as the easiest way in which to relieve the communities on which they now constitute a burden. Such a movement actually obtained somo headway in England with the opening of the recent rate war between tho Atlantic steamship lines, and during the interval between the first sale Of tickets at reduced rates and the ac. tion of the American authorities in de- porting such assisted persons.
 Naturalization Frauds.
 "The present system of issuing nat- uralization papers in tbe United States is prolific source of fraud in the emi- grant trafic An American naturalixa- tion certificate carries on it's face no means of Identifying the real owner. His name is merely stated. An orfgj- nal or certified copy of one of these papers can be sent. to an intending emigrant in any foreign country and used by him to secure a passport on the ground that the certificate is hin own and he. as an American citizen. is entitled to enter the United Statoo regardless of his possible undesirabili- ty under the immigration law. Al . rule the alleged citizen speaks somo language requiring the services of an interpreter. generally of limited in- telligence, and careful cross-examins- ton is impossible. When his appltca- ton for passport has been approved by the American consul nothing io left for the embassy to do but to grant a passport upon these representations. which passport guarantees admissfoo to the United States.
 Another form of abuse is the im- portation of women from the Levane and elsewhere by naturalized Amer. ican citizens. All these women aro required to do is to state under oath that they are the wives of. the men sending for them and they are allowed to depart for the United States with- out restriction. becoming American citizens by virtue of their husbsnds' naturalization.
 If they are refused transportation because of coming within the prohib- ited classification of the American inc migration law they send to the United 2 States for q certified copy of their d. legged husbands naturalization papers and secure . passport in that man- ner. There is no proof of marriage under the present system. Should the United States government decide to TO. quire passport from each immigrant. certified by the oficials of the lanA of his nativity. this abuse could bo stopped.
 It is the opinion of Mir Braun, e well as others well versed in immi- grant conditions in this country. that over 200 900 aliens come here who. d. though they may be able to earn living. are yet of bad character. bod antecedents or of diseased blood Their coming benefits nobody but tho steamship companies.