Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-15

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 ing that their baggage has been prop
 erly fumigated.
 These cOunterfeits are accepted al
 Ellis Island without question, and lug
 gage from European centers. scourged
 with bubonic plague. cholera, tra-
 choma, smallpox and the germs oi
 deadly levers. is permitted to enter
 our ports daily.
 For this counterfeiting service the
 Italian gangs in particular charge five
 lire, or one dollar
 In several of the European countries i 1t is the custom to promise convicted criminals immunity from punishment
 if they will emigrate to this country or if their relatives will send them here.
 100000 Immigrants. The fiscal year will end June 30, and by that time 100000 will have passed through Ellis Island and other immi- grafton depots within the past 12 months. The reports submitted by the
 
 that out of this number one in every ten is either criminal or is otherwise an undesirable citizen for the United States. and these undesirable citizens are coming to our shores either by the aid and encouragement of Euro pean governments, or under the "padrone" system by which an unde- sirable class of men, women and chill dren are brought to this country un- der contract by individuals. These "bosses," or padrones. as they are called. hire out the immigrants and collect their wages. paying them just enough to keep body and soul alive. The workers are thus virtual slaves.
 Mir. Braun was sent to Europe pri- marily to investigate the white slave" traffic on the complaint of anti-vice societies in New York and Philadel- phia. that thousands of women are being sent here every year for im- moral purposes. chiefly from Hungary. and that tke Hungarian government winks at the practice. MT. Braun re- ceived verbal instructions from Mir. Roosevelt in the matter and was di- rected also to make inquiry into the sending of paupers and criminals to this country. He made a startling re- port on this subject year ago which never was published.
 Many startling disclosures nave been made in these reports. Among these things is the fact that if every penal offender in jail in this country were released tomorrow the jails could be reflled to their utmost capacity by the criminals sent to this country by 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 cahe in at the rate of one a 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 Mir Brauns. gave the following statement to the New York World regarding the causes leading to the arrest of that investi- gator in Buda-Pesih:
 Tt 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 Mir. Braun should have mailed from Buda- Pestb about the time of his arrest
 These advisory letters he has al- ways sent al 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 earian police would be more edifsd by such letter than by the report even though the last report made vas of co sensational a character that after q discussion in the department as 10 it should be printed or not \ in the annual fl was referred directly to President Roosevelt There are four copies One Is in the hands of Mr. Sargent. another ip the care of Sscrs- 'ary Metcslf. and third on the presi- dents desk. while the fourth. retained by Mir Braun. s in Neu York in very safe hands.
 inasuuch as my agents and core spondents operating on the continent have af several times crossed trails sffh Mir Braun. I am not violating q confidence in disclosing some of the 'hines which Nr Braun unearthed They are but fair samples of the rho'e- and shov ia c startling man her ho~ ~e are Icing dzp>d ss peo- ,le by the tuniuatton incitafion leeacse< of Europe-so< alone steam 'hiD aeenctes and innigrn<ton A<srfs. but coasisenal eovsrnnesu ani .haritab1e so<ieries o0csFe1 by people ' hieA r1Dsfsftor
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