Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-14
ALIEN IMMIGRATION
Proposed Bill for the Next
Congress.
q. s. CONSUL DANZIGER
HIMSELF A HEBREW, IS PREPAR-
ING THE MEASURE.
None to Eastern Ports, but Unlimited
Immigration to Be Landee
South or West.
q. s. CONSUL DANZIGER

South or West.
Or Adolphe Danziger. United States con-
sul at Aberdeen. Scotland. and until some
months ago consul at Madrid, SPAIN is pre-
pairing bill for introduction in the COM
ing session of Congress, having the warm
sanction of prominent Hebrews all over the
country, providing that for the next year
there shall be no alien steerage immigration
to any of the eastern ports of the United
States but permitting as much immigration
as the steamships can bring when the I'm
migrants are landed in the south or west.
1t is stated that the measure Will have the
approval of practically all the Hebrews of
the country. as we'll as of many thoughtful
men of all races now engaged In studying
the rush of immigrants to this country.
Serious consideration has been given to the
subject. DIR. Danzlger is Hebrew himself
and Is well known in the literary world. He
points out that the congestion of poverty
stricken aliens in New York is growing
worse each year. The Hebrew immigrant
lands in New York, sees his fellow-country-
men engaged in peddling, and earning
precarous living of that sort and he fol-
lows suit out of the sheer force of example
If he is turned toward. other parts of the
country he will follow the examples he sees
there and become a farmer mechanic or
laborer.
The First Advantage
The first advantage of a measure of this
kind said Dr. Danziger, would be to re-
lieve the terrible congestion of the lowsr
east side of New York, as well as Boston
Philadelphia and Baltimore. 1t is a fact
that many immigrants come here with lit
tie money, and in a short time, are strand
ed in New York, subject to the charity or
the non-Charity of their fellow refugees.
The reason why they remain in New York
is because there they find their kindred and
former acquaintance. in whose company
they forget or slightly tighten their pre-
carious condition. Gracious as The Jewish
heart is in sharing what 1t has with those
less blessed, 1t is nevertheless the duty of
every good citizen to see to II that the test
be not overtaxed. My own experience has
filed me with horror at the sight of, she
crowded conditions prevailing, not only on
the east side of New York, but in Phila-
delphia, Boston and other eastern port
cities. sight, such as a poor tailor with
4 wife and several children, in h two-room
dwelling filed with litter and the indfs-
pensable sewing machine necessary for his
livelihood, has two or three boarders male
and female who help to pay the rent and
exc out an existence for all, is not at all
rare These boarders, in a majority of
cases. are practically slaves, who being
taken from the steamer by, perhaps, we'll
meaning people, keep them, first as l said,
to ameliOrate their own condition, to af-
ford shelter to the luckless being who
sought happiness on our shores, but who,
in time, because of ignorance of language
and Independent means by which to strike
out and secure a livelihood, stay with the
family they have originally gone with. 1t
IS needless to touch upon the moral or i'm
moral aspect of this condition. 1t is quite
enough even for the most callous imagina-
ton what results must ensue from this
CIogging of .palpitating human beings. /
don't think that any one cavil at such
law the alien immigrant certainly not.
For him the opportunity is given, if he have
the right stuff within him, to become pros
porous IN section OF the country where he
has not only elbow room, but where he is
actually wanted and would be hailed with
delight. With very few exceptions all allen
immigrants in the south of the United
States as well as in the west, have done
exceedingly well and have reached a meas
Ure of prosperity they could not have hoped
to achieve in the same time in the crowd
ed settlements of the eastern cities, where
one man tries to snatch away the crumb
of bread from the mouth of another.
Civic Assimilation.
The immigrants who have become so
happily situated either in the south or the
west have for themselves and their chill
dren solved most readily and pleasantly a
difficult problem. namely-that of civic as
6tmilation and a ready knowledge of our
language and customs, thing practically
impossible on the East Side of New York,
where the Jew hears nothing but the Yid-
dish jargon. frequents the Yiddish theater,
and is thus, In measure. prevented from
coming in close contact with the true spirit
of our lives and manners This is true of
nearly all immigrants. The Italian lands In
the Italian quarter of New York, hears
nothing and sees nothing but his own Ian
gCage and the thoughts and sentiments of
the people he has been corn and reared
with. and he does not assimiIate with
Americanism. Immigration TO the south
and west would also solve two most per-
picking situations in which the people of
Nit
IS the negro question in the south and the
Monaghan question in the west. Labor in
any form in the south, notably in the cot
ton mills Is not by far so trying nor so I'M
certain of compensation and financial and
physical development the dire peddling
of Improbable small articles through the
streets of New York. In the west his op-
portunities are practically unlimited for
there the MOngolian question has become
acute that people would pay any price
for white labor and would make all kinds
of concessions and favorable conditions If
they could get people readily. The govern
pnent can aid the matter effectively by send
ing line of steamers from San Francisco
or the Puget sound to the Panama railroad
and fetch immigrants to the Pacific coast
at a nominal rate Assuming that the gov
eminent could not establish a line of
steamers to enable immigrants to cross to
the Pa ific coast by way of Panama 1t
could give low rates on the Panama rail-
road to immigrants landing there and on
their way to Pacific ports.
Could Not Object to the Law.
"The rich Jews and others certainly could
not object to a law of the kind suggested
for the reason that they, better than many
others, know under what pressure the char
table societies of New York and elsewhere
are put under the present system of uncon-
troled landing of aliens. Whatever may be
said with regard 10 the sentimental side