The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09
WILSON PLANS TO SAVE PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS
 FROM DISAPPOINTMENT
Thousands Turned Back at Gates of Land of Promise After Long z
 Ocean Voyage.

London, Aug. 9.-From ten to if teen thousand men and women are
 turned away from the portals of the
 back to the countries whence they
 came, in their endeavor to enter the land of promise. The reason is that they do not meet the requirements set for immigrants by the American authorities.
 This condition constitutes one of the most difficult problems faced by the American Department of Labor, and in an effort to solve. it. the depart its special agents, to investigate and report on emigration conditions in England and on the Continent.
 Every year. in spite of the efforts of the steamship com panies to ex- clude such passengers from their lists, nearly fifteen thousand immigrants see the gates at Ellis Island closed against them, and with the earnings of years swept away by the expense of the voyage, they are compelled to; resume the battle of life under the conditions from which they sought es- cape by emigration. The depart ment does not either desire or seek according to MT. Husband, the lower ing of the present standards. but Sec retary Wilson is anxious to devise some plan whereby the shock and suffering incident to being turned back after sighting the shores of the prom ised land may be prevented. In an effort to do this, Special Agent Illus band will investigate the booking of prospective immigrants by transp ortaL- tdon agents with the idea of devisins some method whereby only those who are practically certain of entry into the United States will be permitted to embark on this side of the water.
 It is so easy for the suhragettes to hoodwink Scotland Yard that the wo- men are wearying of the sport.
 The latest case is that of Ewry Clayton. The police were after Ewrv, who was critically i'll, and to make sure he should not escape they posted and day As soon as he recovered sufficiently to walk abroad he was to be gathered in. Every day members of the Suffragette organization visited the Clayton cottage, bearing fruits. Jelly and flowers for the sick man. The police felt secure as they saw the Suf- fragettes come and go; they would get their man on his recovery. Fin ally, the visits of the women ceased. The police, wondering drew their ranks closer and finally entered the house. Ewry was not there, but in
 A1nSE1CG~ 11OASS W Te1S WHIT howers, fruits and jelly, enough to last Mrs. Clayton for weeks to come. Ewry had slipped away and taken a steamer a fortnight back, and the daily visits of the women were simply a blind.
 The Suffragettes took all this trou- ble for MT. Clayton because he is the chemist who was sentenced to penal servitude on a charge of criminally conspirfng with the members of the Wornen's Social and Political Union in that he supplied them with explosives for some of their arson outrages He went on a tshunger strike" and was released under the provisions of the .'tCat and Mouse bil1..'' He went home i'll, and Scotland Yard was watching to rearrest him when the woman s ruse was put into such successful op- eration.
 The leaders of the r1aiIftants declare they did not desire the sacrifice of a mans life in their cause and. when they were informed by his physician that a return to jail would probably result in MT. Clayton's death, they per- suaded him through the mediation of his wife to leave the country They will not say where he is, contenting themselves with stating that he is safely located at least three thousand miles from London.
 The payment of a fine by Miss Zelie Emerson, when she was arrested for assaulting the police in connection. with Sylvia Pankhurst's Downing street riot, has caused the American Sunra gette to lose caste with some of the ruling powers, and it is said that. onlyi her close friendship with the saved her from being dis ciplined by the war cabinet of the W. S. P. U.
 A number of the rni1itants asserted that in refusing to go to jai1,- Miss Emerson gave the impr ression to the public that the morale of the fore front of the fighting line of the organ ization was weakening at the very mo- ment it is straining every effort to nuI-4 lify the effects of the "Cat and Afouse''s bill. The Michigan girls first term, in jail, when she was forcibly fed, was the result of 8 raid she made with Sylvia Pankhurst on the windows of Bow and Bromley, since which time she has enjoyed a close friendship with the Pankhurst family. Shortly after her release after prolonged hunger strike, Miss Emerson was op-. erated on for appendicitis. and she defends her course in paying g fine by asserting that even a brief stay in Jail at this time would so impair her health that she would be unable to take her place on the firing line for many months to come. She feels that she can be of more assistance out of rather than in Jail.
 GHOST WALKS AGAIN FOR PAGES IN HOUSE
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