The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-07-24
Canada Encouraging Their Immigra-
foundations May Plan Control of
Flow Of Immigrants.
WANT MORE RESTRICTION HERE
Investigation Proves Foreign Coun-
tries Do Not Desire United States
To Keep Its Doors Open. "
BY Congressman G. H. Tavenner.

by wis ~. IL. c@S CAACA
Washington, July 24.--Co-operation
between the United States and the
countries of Europe with the view
of controlling the flow Of immigra-
ton to this country is proposed in
report to the Secretary of Labor by
w. w. Husband, a government ex-
pert who has been making an ex-
haustive Investigation in Europe of
the problem of immigration.
The report upsets the idea that
foreign nations are anxious for the
United States to keep her doors wide
open to the immigrants from Europe.
On the contrary these nations are
anxious for restriction, and the
American demand for restricted i'm
migration is shown cOncretely in the
Burnett bill, which, having passed the
House, is now pending in the Senate.
The Husband report, which practi-
cally advises restriction, will pro-
badly have considerable effect upon
the fortunes of the Burnett bill in
the Senate
That European nations are look
ing upon unrestricted immigration
to the United States with more and
more disfavor is evidenced in some
of the agreements which have lately
been made between these nations and
various steamship companies. Aus
tria is reported to have reached an
agreement recently with one large
steamship company that the latter
will no longer transport to America
young Austrians who have not COM
pleted their compulsory military
service.
It is the opinion of Mr.. Husband
that unless the immigration problem
is handled scientifically Europe will
continue to pour immigrants into
this country by untold thousands.
''Unless artifcally restricted, it is
believed that immigration from
eastern Europe will continue at it's
present foodlike proportions for
many years." his report reads, cal
though in some of the countries there
is feeling that industrial develop
ment will soon create home market
for surplus labor, as in the case Of
Germany" The report states that
immigration theoretically ought to
regulate itself in obedience to natural
economic laws.
''The difficulty" it continues,
'arises chiefly from the fact that the
economic laws are constantly inter-
fered with by artificial influences,
back of which is the desire for gain
by those who profit through immi-
grafton Mr.. Husband mentions
the steamship companies as the chief
offenders in artifcially stimulating
immigration, and declares that in
some countries the steamship agents
are so hated by the population that
they are compelled to do their work
very secretly. Although it is
against United States law to import
immigrants for laborers, the report
states that nearly every immigrant
knows before leaving home where
work will await him in the United
States.
An interesting conclusion in the
report is the that the United States
is soon to begin receiving large num-
bers of Russian peasants as immi-
grants. The heavy Russian immi-
grafton of the recent past has been
almost entire Russian Jews, who are
almost exclusively city jewellers.
The Russian peasants are farmers
of high type, an the report regards