The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-18
FRAUD IS UNIVERSAL
CONSTANT VIOLATION 0M IMMIGRA- ga TION LAWS.
Countries of Europe Encourage Its Cit- fsens to Go to America, and Op- pose Their Naturalization
 As Citizens.

House. Secretary Metcalf of the depart ment of commerce and labor today sent to the House the report of Spe- cial Commissioner Marcus Braun. winch deals at great length with the charac- ter of immigrants coming to this coun- ernments upon the matter.
 Mir. Braun declares that he has un- controvertible evidence that while the number of aliens shipped to tlIis coun- try who are legally inadmissihle be- cause of disease is diminishing, immi- grants inadmissible for other seasons gre constantly being brought into the country nlarge numbers ''by the con certed action of some European gov ernments and steamship agencies. by bankers and schemers of all sorts"
 He declares that while these gov ernments have laws which ostensbly are intended to restrict immigratfon, instead of ddinng so they actually en- courage it by keeping alive the pa triotic spirit of the fatherland in the minds of these colonies" by represent ing that unless they adhere to the prin- ciples of home patriotism their gov ernments would leave them without protection in ''barbaric America"
 This is especially true, MT. Braun says in Italy and Hungary. He asserts that these countries regarded the Uni-
 
 or colonies of their own and by their instructions and teachings to immi- grants benefit accrues to the home government to the detriment of this country He cites the fact that $eo,- 900, 900 was sent Hast year from the United States to Austria Hungary alone from these immigrants. Not q Promise Kept.
 Not a single promise which the new Hungarian migrant law guaran- teed has been Kept. l experienced the bewildering spectacle" MT. Braun says. .'of hundreds upon hundreds of agents licensed by the Hungarian government carrying on and conducting an almost unheard of campaign to get immigrants in direct and open violation of their laws"
 Mir. Braun naTrates at length his in- terviews with Hungarian officials and quotes Premier Tisza as saying that bills introduced in Congress tending to restrict immigration are regarded as unfriendly acts towards the Govern ment of Hungary.
 He states that in order to discourage Hungarians from becoming American citizens, the precaution Is taken to advocate the establishment in the United States of Hungarian homes, schools, churches and institutions, the intention of which is to avert the ter rible dangers of Hungarians becoming naturalized.
 Mir Braun cites the contract between the Hungarian Government and the Cunard Line for the transportation of immigrants and declares that the com mission and tax which the Government requires is largely used to keep alive the Magyar spirit among Hungarians who come to this country.
 Aa1r Ar,s, aferKs ton from Turkey, Asia Minor and Sy- ria. Speaking of the Armenians. he says that they have invented scheme whereby they can stay in Turkey and at the same time defy Turkish laws. This scheme consists of large num- Der of Armenians emigrating to the United States and as soon as they have earned sufficient money for their need. they return supplied with American citizenship papers and are continually conspiring against the Turkish Govern ment under the protection of American citizenship. This Is true in Syria and Palestine.
 "Americans' in Jerusalem.
 In Jerusalem alone Mir. Braun found more than 1000 American, citizens" He cites a number of instances of the fraud which these people practice and declares that 99 per cent. of them speak not Q word of English.
 Regarding immigration from Italy, he says that an Italian subject may leave that country for any place on the globe except the United States without a passport. He Is required to pay a fee of eight lire for q passport to the Uni ted States and from this the govern ment derives revenue. He further de- clares upon the statement of bankers and steamship agents that the amount annually received in Italy from Italians in this country averages one dollar a day for every Italian in this country.
 It Is openly stated, he says, in the Export Review, semi official organ of the Austrian government, that three fourths of the immigrants leaving that country for the United States. come un- der contract and adding, God forbid that the American government should read this" He adds that Austria takes the same precautions to prevent immi- grants becoming American citizens as does Hungary.
 The immigration from the Turkish domains, both European and Asiatic, says Mir Braun, is nothing less than menace to this country; from this na- tioq we positively get the worst kind of people in the world. Violations of the immigrant law will continue, he declared, as long as there are agents and sub-agents of steamship compa- nies working on commercial basis. These violations are not confined to Europe alone, but are fragrant in America. Bankers. publishers of news papers in foreign language, foreign cIergymen and others doing business here are ardent missionaries inducing immigrants to come here for purposes of exploitation and are equally inter- ested in the return traffic.
 He has a word of commendation for