Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-20
TRAFFIC IN IMMIGRANTS
Marcus Braun Tells Why They
 Are Told to Stay Aliens.
HOW EUROPE IS ENRICHED BY THEM

HOW EUROPE IS ENRICHED BY THEM Inspector of Immigrants Says 45O,.
 100000 Earned In the United States
 Was Sent In one Year to Austria.
 Hungary-Asserts America Is Re-
 garded as Merely . Foreign Colony.
 The report of Immigrant Inspector Marcus Braun, recently received by the house, is stricture upon the gov ernment of Italy and Hungary, says Washington dispatch to the New York World. "Hungarians and Italians, he says. .'are encouraged to refrain from becoming American citizens and urged to adhere to the principles of their home governments. Hungarians are advised to establish their own schools, churches, etc, to avoid the terrible danger of becoming naturalized in America"
 Mir. Braun declares that while some European governments have laws os- tensibly intended to restrict immigra- ton they actually encourage it by keep ing alive .the patriotic spirit for the fatherland in the minds of their colo nies" by representing that unless they adhere to the principles of home patri- otism their governments will leave them without protection in 'barbaric America This is especially true, Mir. Braun says, in Italy and Hungary. He asserts that these countries regard the United States in the attitude of ad- iuncts or colonies of their own. and by their instructions and teachings to inn migrants benefit accrues to the home government to the detriment of the United States.
 Speaking of emigration from Turkey. Asia Minor and Syria, Mfr. Braun says the Armenians have invented scheme whereby they can stay in Turkey and at the same time can defy Turkish laws. This consists of large number of Armenians emigrating to the United States, and as soon as they have earned sufficient money for their need they re- turn supplied with American citizen ship papers and continually conspire against the Turkish government under the protection of American citizenship.
 The same is true in Syria and Pales- tine, he says, and he quotes the gov ernor of Mount Lebanon as saying. If this constant travel from Syria to and from the United States does not cease soon the United States had better annex the province of Lebanon, as at present there are more American citi- zens there than Turkish subjects"
 In Jerusalem alone Mir. Braun found more than 1000 American citizens" and he declares that 99 per cent of them speak not a word of English, and most of them do not know the street of the city in which they claimed to have resided while in the United States. Mir. Braun declares upon the authority of bankers and steamship agents that the amount annually received in Italy from Italians in the United States averages S1 day for every Italian in . the United States.
 It is openly stated, he says, in the Export Revue. a semiofhcial organ of the Austrian government, that three fourths of the immigrants leaving that country for the United States come ur- der contract, and that paper adds, God forbid that the American govern ment should read thisr'
 Both Austrian and Hungarian gov ernments keep watch over their peo- pie in America, and every effort is di- rected toward two objective points namely, ito send us all the emigrants they possibly can for temporary so- journ here to earn money with which to enrich the land of their nativity upon their return and, secondly, to pre- vent such emigrants from becoming American citizens" He cites the fact that s5O,O00O00 was sent last year from the United States to Austria Hungary alone from these immigrants.
 Violations of the immigrant law are not confined to Europe, but are na- grant in America. Bankers, publishers of newspapers in foreign languages. foreign clergymen and others doing business here are ardent missionaries. inducing immigrants to come to the United States for purposes of exploita- ton and are equally interested in the return traffic Among foreign priests it has become fayorite expression to speak of ''our colonies in America"
 Concerning the Russian Jew. howev- CT, Mr. Braun says, .'0nce he becomes a resident of this country he stays. and his children become among the most patriotic of our citizenship"
 Based on the results of his investiga- tion. Mir Braun recommends that the United States maintain abroad a SC cret surveillance of undesirable immi- grafton. that a statute be enacted re duiring aliens to produce at landing q certificate of origin from the nearest United States consul to be issued only in the event of satisfactory information being furnished the consul regarding the applicant by the secret service offi- ciais. that a bond of not less than s2J0O be required from all persons in the United States engaged in the sale of steamship tickets. forwarding mon ey. contracting for labor. that Ii be
 made a criminal offense for sny resi- dent of the United States ro travel abroad to entice immigration or to ad- vise against naturalization snd that the allen contract labor law be amended % that priests. ministers. clsrume1