The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-28
What Others Say.

According to the Information
which comes from the United States
Government his brother makes
very dangerous keeper for the
immigrant The Government Is
seeking to devise some means of
preventing this brotherly keeper
from robbing his charge, and the
Ipicture of conditions as they exist
about the gates of Ellis Island
would furnish material for any
sort of a book.
Jew robs Jew. and Italian preys
upon Italian. The Hungarian is
assured by his Slavonic brother
that all is well. white the brother
| is inserting the knife under his
lfifth rib. The Crotian reads the
name of a Crotian boarding house
and goes hither only to be rob-
bed by his brother from abroad.
Even the willy Jap Is taken In by
, his brother. to be fleeced of the
money he brought from home. and
the unsuspecting Hindoo has a
trick. or two shown to him before
he finds out that fellow from
the Vale of Cashmere is as likely
to rob him as is the outlaw from
beyond the Balkans.
All manner of schemes are ar
ranged for the unwary. Here is a
firm of Italian lawyers who will
look after the Italian immigrant IS
Interests. The. firm will take care
of the few dollars he has; Sc
cure him employment protect his
Interests. AS mater OF fact the
Italian lawyers rob the poor. ignor-
ant countryman and throw him
into the street. A pompous Magyar
informs the Hungarian immigrant
that he is an agent for the en-
Iployment of Hungarian laborers
that he has any number of good
positions open to them. He de-
mands a fee, depending entirely
upon the amount of money the
Immigrant can scrape together, and
the unfortunate fellow is thus
fleeced. Some times the Magyar
"agents' actually secure EN-.
ployment for their clients and
see to it that portion Of the
weekly wage is regularly RENTED
to the said "agentv
There Is an Italian commission
that is doing what it can to pro
tect the Italian immigrants but II
! is not endowed with the cunnins
; of the sharks. 1t is purely phil
anthropic institution as lis the
Hebrew society, organized for the
same purpose, but 1t is able tc
look after only limited numbe,
of the Immigrants and many OF
: them slip through its fingers and
are robbed. Just as are many Of
the Jews who come here, robbed
by their fellows before the Hebrew
organization can make them un
derstand that 1t is looking afte,
their interests.
There does not seem to be 9
copyright upon honesty or dis
honor. From whatsoever country
an immigrant halls he is certain
to encounter at the very threshold
of this country men from his ma,
tive land who seek to rob him
There are dishonest men amons
all nations, and honest ones. SC
that we make a mistake in at.
tributing crimes to any one nation
ality. If there were contest
among the nations to dec de which
possessed the biggest thieves o,
the most depraved citizens, the
question of who would win i'm the
contest would be hard to settle.
While there is probably no ono
particular crime that Is any
blacker than another, since ths
standard of right has no variations
II would seem that a man who
would obtain the confidence OF
an immigrant on the strength of
the fact that he was his brother
ana VINO would then rob him. Is
Tttle lower down the scale than
any other. The Government pro-
poses to do something to prevent
or at least lessen the crime against
Immigrants, and the move is a
wise one. At this time as soon as
an Immigrant Is passed through the
gates the United States ceases 10
exercise any authority over him.
the state in which the immigrants
may happen to be assuming ia
protect his interests, but II
would seem that until the immi-