The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-02-09

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on our shores come vol
rrt rrm unfairly and OF an in.
&E telligent desire TO bet
II1 ter their condition by
&lN hard work OF these II
R& is not the purpose OF
HlNiIII IN& this article TO treat.
TNNVlIIll'I1@ The remainder OF the
IWUVIIIlIlIl yearly output from for
IWlIINlI'lIIlUI elgn countries como
ELECTROMAGNETIC here because they have
been caught up and
torn away from their native homes by
the superior power OF vast ana lhtri
cato machine" In Its main outlines
this machine" may be ltkcned TO an
enormous dredging apparatus stretching
forth Gigantic cranes TO every port OF
Europe, catching up and hcnying back
loads of emigrants collected from every
corner OF tho eastern hemisphere oy tho
tirclcss efforts OF no less than $4,000
steamship ngents and their canyassers.
Tho fuel which enorgizes this colossal
structure is an equally colossal greed for
yearly dividends, and the combined In.
te!lects controlling our greatest steam
ship and railroad companies may be said
upon which the entire mechanism turns
Is fraud and evasion OF the United States
Immigration law.
No large city In tho United states Is
without its element Of foreign born pur-
Chasablo voters, criminal Cllqucs, black
handlers" anarchists paupers, its cheap
labor" supply controlled by foreign born
contractors. itB overcrOwdCd tcnCmcnts
breeding disease; furthermore, a careful
estimate shows that about 30 per cent.
OF tho unnccompaned immigrant male
adults who enter our country are legally
ineligible.
Our laws are therefore an ever rccur.
rent subject Of controversy Yet, de.
spite all discussion no person will dis.
pute but that an immigrant Is desirable
from every sane standpoint, II he has a
reasonable amount OF intelligence. is
physically sound and OF good moral char.
Rcter, is possessed OF sufficient money
earned by himself TO cover tho expense
of his journey and comes hero OF his
own initiative, capable for work, but not
under contract to work at n WACO which
will lower tho American standard But
this in plain language is precisely what
our present immigration law requires
It is the legal definition of immigrant
deslrabillty.
To understand the real evil underly.
Ing the present condition OF immigration
we must take into consideration that
while our dilettante theorists are con.
Stunning reams Of paper with interesting
reflections upon the problem" while
our country is in It's chronic state OF op.
'timism over present conditions, whatever
tthey are--and while our legislators are
engaged in tho passage OF now. unneces
'sary and often impractical laws--thou.
sands OF foreigners oxcludable under the
laws already passed are being yearly
dumped upon our shores by various In
tefests which work together as one ma.
chine. II is we'll known that tho fabu-
lous profits derived from nm artlncially
stimulated immigration nrc participated
: In by the allied interests of the trans
atlantic steamship companies. the Ellis
Island railroad pool and the Atlantic
coastwise steamship lines. Cooperating.
MS they do. they run automatically Of
their own weight practically without
friction, and thrive by reason OF n contIn-
ulng abnormal Immigrant supply. They
oil combine upon n single instrument
namely, tho European steamship agent
10 solicit trade in immigrants that will
nppreclably increase passenger fares lIo
Il Is who, actuRted by prospective fees
which nro dependent upon sales made,
gives Impulse to the machine" by sell.
ing It's through tickets" in every Euro.
poan town and hamlet.
The several affiliated steamship lines.
having created their zones Of influence
enjoy what is practically n monopoly
upgn the sale OF steerage tickets, and by
Bpreadlng their field agents over the en-.
tire European territory from which i'm
MIGRANTS are drawn they effectively sup
press competition.
At tho ir<nigant gateway of Ameri'
ca, all these lines converge to hand over
their Immigrant cargoes to the other par.
Elephants IN the machine"
From the vantage point at Ellis Island
the railroad "pool"-known as the I'm.
migrant Clearing House." which is a
combination Of thirteen OF our largest
railroads, together with one of the consol.
idated steamship companies-takes the
immigrants In hand To tag and forward
them to every point In the country at
special thlrd-class rates.
The railroad pool" finds It profitable
10 pay TO the United States an annual
rental OF $4,000 for its headquarters on
government ground. where II sells spe-
cial tickets for the benefit OF ship i'm.
migrants only" for rail transportation
from Now York, Boston. Philadelphia and
Baltimore to about 1000 selected places
in the interior Of tho United States. Since
these tickets, sold either in Europe or at
Ellis Island. are cheaper in price than
can be obtained by our citizens. the
plain intent Of congress to close every
avenue against railroad rate discrimina.