Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-12-02
URGES PUBLICITY
FOR CORPORATIONS
Says Reform Must Come Through
Some General System of Pub
llCity Decrease In the
Number of lmmi-
grants.


tant and unusual statements and rec
concentrations are made by Secretary
Oscar S. Straus in the sixth annual
report of the department of COM
merce and la oor made public today.
"Our age" says Secretary Straus,
has been very properly ca led an e.
of commercial developments and ex
pansion, and the United States, by
reason Of it's many exceptional ad
vantages. its boundless natural re-
sources, and possessing a growing, in
telligent, energetic, enter prising and
self-reliant population, is reaping
greater share of Industrial and COM
mercial prosperity than any of the
other nations of the world. AS the
head of the depar ,ment, it has been
my constant aim so to admin .ster its
various branches as to afford the
greatest amount of assistance, infor-
nation and guidance to the various
Industrial and commercial activities
that come under it's administrative
scope"
Secretary Straus points out that Ia
Dor and the Industries ana commerce
are inter-dependen THAT comm rec
which Is developed and expanded to
OF the wage standard of the aSore.s
engaged therein, however profitable
1t might be in the material sense, is
harmful to a nations welfare and
should be discouraged"
Particular attention is devoted by
the secretary in his report to the bu
reau of immigration and naturali1a-
ton, corporations and labor. While
important, the three mentioned bear
the more directly upon the material
interests of the people than do any of
the others. The report, as 1t relates
IL them scarcely can be considered as
an ordinary departmental report, as
1t is replete with information, sug-
gestion and human interest. Con-
cerning the bureau of immig alton,
Secretary Straus points out that up 10
the close of the Civil war all cur
laws were framed to encourage inn
migration and that since then Ameri-
can legislation while not hostile to
immigration, has been directed toward
the elimination OF undesirable ca sses.
AS a result of this leg slat.on the per-
centage of foreign Oorn persons in our
population has renamed practi ally
oN0tAOhd4S lOT lbllg ges-lS. CJl~l ttIig
the percentage Of foreign born IN
1860 was 1872 while in 1900 it was
1871.
During a portion of the past fiscal
year" says secretary Straus. "aHd ,x-
tending into the present, this coun-
try has suffered an industrial depres-
sion due to a number of causes,
among, others to overprodu- ton,
which were world wide, but perAaps
for the time being more acceptuate
in this than in the other CONNIE cial
countries" The effect of this de-
preston upon immigration was i'm
mediate. the fiscal year of 1903 show
ing a falling of in immigration OF
about 80 per cent.
'Deducting the total departures oil
aliens from the total arrivals during
the fiscal y ar the net increase of
alien population was 209,S67 About
26 per cent of those admitted wer-
illiterate. The total amount of mon y
actually brought into the country by
arriving aliens was Sl7,794.226 an
average of almost $2S per capita.
Warrants Of deportation were issued
in the cases Of 1856 aliens and 10.-
902 aliens were rejected at the pot
y
accepted figures of immigration are
actually As per cent in excess of the
net immigration.
Considerable space is devoted to
the incoming of japanese, which
shows a gradual but sure reduction
in the number. During the year the
net increase in Japan sc population
was only 3,S26. Secretary StTaus
says that the japanese and American /,
governments are cooperating TO en- 4
force the law respecting the coming /
OF japanese laborers to tn 8 country. /
Greater success has att anded the /
efforts Of the department 20 enforce !
the alien contract labor law during |
the last year than IN any preceding |
year. 1t IS pointed out that "tHe |
greatest violators OF the contract la
Dor laws are the American manu-
facturers." Labor unions, too. have |
at times. been found among the vio-
lators OF the law. During the az l.
s32 contract laborers were rejected,
an increase OF "a per cent over the q
reflections for 1907. In az. 2.l72 con- i,
tract laOorers were depOrted during