Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-16
CAMINETTI CONDEMNS IMMI-
GRAFTON FROM THE FAR EAST
Great INCREASE DURING 1914

4, been seriously made 50 to use them)
| by aliens who would be excluded at our
home ports as likely to become public
| charges to gain the advantage of being
examined at a port where, on the as
sumption that they entered-as they u.s.
ually do MOTTO remain in the Philip
pines, they will not be SO closely scruti-
nized or required to come up to so high
a standard as would be the case were
! they applying at mainland port"
The last fiscal year has indicated, the
report states, that migration has APP
| parently reached the million mark per-
manently and unless some affirmative ac-
ton is taken by the Federal government
to restrict, or steps are taken by Euro
pean and other nations to reduce the
steady stream of persons leaving the
various countries of the Old ,Vor,d. we
need hardly expect that the number an
nualiy entering the United States here
after will fall far below 1,oo0.O00''
| The net increase in population by i'm
migration was 1926. the report shows.
| as against S15.312 in 1879. and ,S65 in
1912. A total OF 1,2lS. $50 persons actually
We're admitted but alien emigration from
the United States was 653 sos. During
the year Also 12.494 physically defective
and 1874 mentally deficient persons
were debarred from entry. Those de-
| barred as liable to become public charges
numbered Is. 745. or IS per cent Of all
| those denied entry. 4 total of e,2SS
persons were deported during the year
as immoral criminal or anarchists The
number of white slaves or slavers sent
out Of the country was l.Si0.
The report jevotes considerable space
to the recently created employment bur-
eau for the distribution of labor. inaug-
urated by Mr.. Caminetti with the coop
Grafton of the Postof1ice and Agricultural
Departments, ard along the lines re-
| fe-rred to by President Wilson in his
indianapolis speech. The vital necessity
I of the PLAN is publicity, the report says,
and already much has been accom-
plished. Efforts to enlist the aid OF the
press viii he continued. it is stated, and
/ it is hoped a new department OF IN
formation as important in news sense
| as that recording the daily reports OF
! the Weather Bureau may be created by
/ the press for the benefit OF its patrons
I with the publication Of opportunities for
| empioyment il the district in which each
paper cirCuiates
The report urged the enactment Of
some OF the rural credit measures before
Congress which contemplate Placing at
the disposal Of the Labor Department Z
fund 70 lie used in the distribution Of
lauor 10 farming communities and i'll
aiding SUCH laborers to obtain farms of
their own. II is suggested the head tax
collected from aliens might be consti-
tuted into such fund and also that the
eove~nme9; land in various reclamation
projects ana elsewhere he employed 10
furnish the desired opportunities.
For the greater efficiency OF the border
patrols OF the immigration service, Mr..
/ Caninetti recommends that a signal
corrs similar 10 the army corps be es-
IA olisAe1 with property equipped sta
tions along the borSkrs ana coast lines
( which aonll coopIaSe with customs
officials against snaEglers whether Of
goods or If aliens.