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

contrary. Trade does follow the flag
 and the American flag in a foreign har-
 Dor is a great advertiser. If the United
 States is to hold its own in the trade of the world it must have equal advan- tages with other nations as to that trade.
 Cheap Fish for the Nation Here the Secretary spoke of the bu-
 reau of fisheries, saying:
 Another feature of this department, indirectly connected with the marine. Is the raising of cheap fish for food for the nation. A few years ago 1t was all
 most impossible to get fresh Holsters,
 or shad, but owing to the protection afforded and the plantings of the bu-
 reau of fisheries. they are now to be found in every large market We are propagating fish of many kinds all over the union. We raise the spawn and send it out to the states and
 in addition do great deal of planting
 ourselves. Our total output of fish and eggs last year was more than three bill lions; and this will be greatly extended.
 The commercial fisheries of the coun try are now bringing in product of something like $62,000 000. and from oysters alone we are annually gettting something like $16,C00,0 900. The salmon
 of Alaska bring in 5000, 900 or s10,- 900, 900, and the fish which comes from Il l food which annually sells for something like s21000000. We are doing great deal for the salmon both along the Columbia river and in Puget sound and Alaska As to the fur seals they are 1 under the department, and if we could
 protect them from the robbers who contrary 10 law, try to catch them on
 their way to the Pribaloff islands, we
 could materially increase the herd. AS 1 Ii is the sealslSins now bring in some I thing like S4o0,000 year. In the past
 they have been worth a great deal.''
 One Million Immigrants | The conversation here turned to immi- l grafton, of which the depa itment of com
 nierce and labor has charge, and l asked inc secretary as to the character of the
 new citizens we are getting from Flu rope. He replied:
 1 r'rhe most of them come from the | southern and eastern countries. We ad. | mitted more than 1.C00.U3 last yeain and within the last 10 years We have passed | in between S,o0o,0D1 and 9.0GD.0O0. At pres ent we are admitting more Italians than I any of the others. In 1900 we had over | 2C0.0p0 of them. Next came the Poles, who numbered 12S.o00 and then the Jews, Ger
 mans, English and Irish.
 You must remember, however, that a | great many of these immigrants stay only a few years, and that there is a steady flow back to the old country. | believe that some of them come here witt | the idea of making q fortune in a few years and then going back home Some l sucll send their savings back from montl
 to month, and this is one reason for tht | huHdreds of millions of dollars wortf
 of ynor er'ortlsra which are annually for.
 warded to Europe"
 Keeping Out the Scrap
 | "Do we get many bad inmlSrantsI asked. | Not if this department can help it | We have force Of about 200 men wht I are enrazed in guarding the ports and | our boundaries, to keep out those whom | the law fprgids landing. These are, as | ,cu lnoU,i all those who have contagious diseases. all who are mentally weak. al
 who have been criminals in the countries l tiom where they came, and all who ars paupers and unable to support them