The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

selves. We turn about 25,000 such immi- grants back every year. and although at times 1t seems almost cruel to do so, we are forced to protect the people at home
 from such invasion fro mabroad." "
 What causes the immigrants to come to the United States?'
 The number increases or decreases with good or bad times Just now the country is prosperous, and foreigners come here to get the high wages and better conditions of living. The immigra-
 tion is also largely a matter of freight.
 It is drummed up by the ocean steamship companies and the railroads in order that they may receive the passage money for carrying the immigrants here.
 Gan you keep out the Asiatics?"
 "The law forbids us to admit the Chi
 nese, and the same is true to some eX- tent of the Japanese. During the past
 year we have passed in o600 Ja panese, and during the same time something like 1500 came into Hawaii. California has also had something of an immigration of Hin dus."
 What are you doing along labor
 lines?"
 We are gathering information of all
 sorts not only for the government and the scientist, but for the aboring man
 himself and those who employ him. No are getting information as to child labor
 and woman labor, as to wages and strikes
 and as to accidents and how the lahore,
 may be protected from them. Investigating the Corporations "l suppose that great part of your
 work is connected with the corpora tions?"
 Yes. that was one of the main req sons for founding this depa rtment It was to promote the best business inter- ests of the country and to give informa- lion which would lead to the maintenance of the honesty and stability of the vast machinery of our industry and commerce. The bureau of corporations gathers n- formation for the use of the administra- tion and others as to corporations of all kinds. So far. we have been dealing chiefly with the gerat corporations or | trusts, and we have investigated a num- Der of them. such as the beef trust and the steel trust. We have about completed | oul work on the steel trust" 'Fi should think such a report would be very extensive?''
 Tt is so It would take several vol umes to contain it.
 twill it have as many words as a big family Bible?'
 q should say so -
 How do you go about Investigating a trust of that klnd?''
 We have to begin at the bottom. We
 want first to know the purpose of the organization, to learn what it's .'harter lgives it the right to do and then find cut whether it carries on it's business il ae- ccrdance with that charter. We want to
 know all about the methods of the organ ization. it's profits and losses, the wages
 and prices, the cost of materials and ev- crything concerning 1t. We want to know whether it has combinations with the
 railroads by which it gets unfair ldvan- | ltao avar ta cnm patitOrS ana +o know whether 1t is in conspiracy to control CT make pricess In the steel trust we save
 had great aid from the management. The i books have all been thrown open to us
 and we have been aided in many ways
 This is so with most of the corporations
 with which we have had to deal It was not so with the tobacco trust, but the Erecent decision may make that organiza- ltion more compliant in the future.''