The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-29
UNDES|RABLES FOR
NATION RECRUITED
Steamship Agents Stimulate
A Flow Of Worst Kind of
immigration.
BY SIDNEY ESPEY.


ton indicates, are still at work in
foreign countries stimulating a flow of
undesirable immigrants to apply for
admission to the United States.
Induced immigration" as this prac-
tfce is called, is one of the serious
problems with which the Bureau has
to contend. The problem has been
discussed for some time, but special
attention, 1t appears, was given to 1t
last year. AS result several large
parties coming from the same general
locality in Europe we're rejected on
the ground that the inducement of
their immigration had been in viola
ton of law. .-.---
At the port of Galveston alone
twelve such parties, numbering two
hundred and forty-three aliens, were
refused admission and deported.
With one of these parties went a
special employee OF the Bureau. He
was acquainted with the language.
and, by mingling with the aliens in
the steerage. investigated the question
OF their having been induced to come
70 America, and found that to have
One OF the particular points which
was to be determined was what be-
came of the aliens after their return
to the seaport of embarkation in
Europe. In investigating this, it was
found that the steamship company did
not return them to their homes in
Europe. but arranged for their i'm
migration to other countries. An ex-
tract from the report of this investf-
gator gives some interesting side
Nights on the question:
One after the other they admitted
to me that they had been sent to
America. All of them told me that
they could get work with meat at
Fort Worth, Texas, ten hours a day
and they would have earned twenty
cents an hour "for whom they had to
work they, in their ignorance know
mot"
1t also appeared that two women
carried on business of inducing
these people to migrate here, one of
Whom some of the aliens claimed. re-
ceived money from a "kumpana"
Company as result. In addition 1t
was also learned that a so-called
teacher" In Bremen teaches the
'Servians and Bulgarians before they
leave to answer the different cues
tons of the United States immigra-
ton authorities, including those which
are asked at the special injuries.
This lecture" is usually given three
times before the departure of the ship.
Into this country last year, accord
ing to another very interesting part of
the Bureaus report, there poured
stream of eight hundred and thirty
eight thousand, one hundred and sew
enty-tWo people from all parts of the
earth. So great continued the incom-
ing tide as steera passengers that
an estimate for the last ninety-three
years shows a great total of thirty
million. From 1875 to 1890 the figures
are only approximate, but from 1920
TO 1913 the tables give the number as
Twenty-Five million, six hundred and
eleven thousand and fifty-two.
In 1923. as few as six thousand, |
three hundred and fifty-four immi- !
grants came to the United States. In i
1854 came the first big rise. the |
figures running up to four hundred |
ana twenty-eight thousand in that |
year. Downward ran the tide in 1862. |
few more than seventy-two thousand
being admitted to this country. In !
1857 another high water-mark was
reached. when four hundred and sixty
thousand immigrants arrived, while !
nve years later the number dropped to |
one hundred and thirty eight thous- |
and
The Arst big increase after that of
1854 came in 1882. when the number
OF arriving aliens totaled seven hun
dred and eighty-nine thousand. Then
came series of waves, first up then
down. until in 1898 the lowest point
OF recent years was reached, two hun
dred and twenty-nine thousand. Then
a steady increase began, and in 1907
the greatest number of aliens ever adj
mitted to this country in single year
nocked mere rrom every land across
the sea Only once since then has
the million mark been reached, in
1910, when one million and forty-one
thousand. five hundred and seventy
was the years total
The watch over this great stream
OF incomers has become one of the
functions of the national government,
and an efficient organization has been
developed for this purpose 1t is even
at this time in state of change. One
OF the last acts of the Sixty-second
Congress was the passage of bill
creating the new Department of
Labor. involving the shifting of the
and Naturalization BIZ
reau from the Department of Com
merce and Labor to the charge of the
new cabinet officers.
By this act. also, the former dual
bureau was divided into two distinct
bureaus, one dealing with the aliens
rs they apply for admission and the +
,ther with their applications for cit
zenship
The establishment of the Immigra-
ion Bureau as it is today dates from
-Ssl. Prior to that time the laws re-
ating to immigration were administer
ID by the state officers, those being
designated by the Governors of the
espective states having seaports of
nfry The /