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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
Eighteen CONvICTS
BURN TO DEATH
TWELVE MORE WERE SERIOUSLY
INJURED BY EXPLOSION IN
CITY JAIL.
FIFTY TAKEN OUT UNFRAMED
Fire Department Chartered in the
Same Building Quickly Extin-
guished the Fire.

El Paso, TeX.-Eighteen dead, six
probably fatally burned, and a score
or more less seriously injured, was
the toll of an explosion and fire at
the city Jail. The name of one Am
erican Is included in the list of dead
and II are numbered among those SER
iously burned. Surgeons said that the
death list would probably reach 20,
and that many of the injured would
not live more than a few hours
II. G. Bagley, trusty, named II. NJ.
Cross, whose home was said to be
Davenport, Ia, as the man who struck
the match which started the fire. Cross
was under arrest for yagrancy. He
died of his injuries. When the burst
OF flames blew out the windows and
doors. a number of victims dashed in
TO the streets afre from head to foot.
One of the victims, a veritable torch,
plunged through the jagged remains
OF a window pane and gained the Jail
roof where he expired A number of
the prisoners were blinded.
Albert Curles, Louisville, KY, and
A. G. Wanroy, Holland, Mich were
among the names OF those seriously
burned as given out by the police de-
partment. Many of the victims were
thoroughly saturated with the solution
when the flames enveloped them and
their cries of agony were heard by a
great crowd which had assembled on
the outside of the Jail
Jail officials attribute the origin of
the fire to the deliberate act of a
prisoner in throwing a lighted match
into one OF the containers holding
the explosive fluid Surrounding the
bath quarters are rows Of cells and it
vas in these that most of the fatali-
ties occurred. Locked in, the prison
ers were unable TO escape the binding
sheet of flame. Those who were res
cued were found unconscious and ter
ribly burned
About so prisoners were taken out
unframed and placed in quarters re.
moved from the bath house under
heavy guard.
The fire department, CHARTERED in
the same building, quickly extinguish-
el tie tire, and with the assistance
Of five physicians, rendered aid 10 the
burned victims
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
A. C. BUILDING
BURNS QUICKLY
STU DENT VOLUNTEERS AND
FIREMEN SAVE MEMS
DoRMIToRY.
WITH A LOSS OF $24O,OOO
Fire Is Supposed to Have Originated
in the Basement OF the Engin-
eering Building.

East Lansing destroyed the
engineering building and shops of the
Michigan Agricultural college with a
loss of $4,000. Student volunteers
and Lansing fremen saved Wells hall,
the mems dormitory, and other col
lege buildings after hard fight. A
M. Brown, secretary of the state board
of agriculture, gave out the following
schedule of losses: Engineering hall,
$4,000; machine shop and foundry,
$4,000; civil engineering equipment,
$4,000; machine shop equipment,
$4,000; physical and electrical equip
ment, $4,000; Wells dormitory for
men, $1,000; losses to students in
instruments and property, estimated
$4,000; total $4,000.
The fire is believed to have start
ed in the cement laboratory in the
basement of the engineering building
where there were gas ovens forsheat-
ing bricks. The flames had gained
such Roadway when they were dis
covered and little could be done to
save the building. The east end of the
building burned first. The blaze quick
ly spread along the wooden floors
and Railways. Within a few minutes
after the fire was discovered the in
tense heat shattered windows and an
hour later the floors crushed through
and a section of the main wall
crumbled.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
N. D. BAKER WAR SECRETARY
Was Former Mayor of Cleveland, Ac-
cepts the Position.

Neutrality-suspicious. ID. Baker, for
mer mayor of Cleveland, has been Sc
lected by President Wilson for secre-
tary of war. His name had
been mentioned in connection with the
position several times. He was Of
fered a place when the cabinet was
formed but declined Mr.. Baker has &C
copied the position and is now arrang-
ing his affairs in Cleveland prepare
tory to coming to Washington to take
w his duties.
Baker is not entirely without cabi-
net experience. He served as private
secretary TO Postmaster General Will
son from 1895 to 1897. In addition to
practicing law, he was city solicitor
of Cleveland for 10 years, serving from
1902 to 1912.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
General Markets.
per ID.

Mushrooms-35G40 per 10.
Strawberries-28d3O soc per quart
Grape Fruits-$S.25d3.75 per crate.
Dressed Hogs-Light, 10 1-2011c;
heavy, 8 1-2010c per 10.
Maple Sugar-New, 15q16c per 10;
syrup. $101.10 per gal.
Dressed Calves-Best, 14014 1-2c;
ordinary, IS 1-2c per ID.
dollhouse 2SG30c per
10. Florida, s4G45O per crate.
Sweet Potatoes-Jersey, kiln dried,
$1.35d1.4O per crate and S125 per
hamper.
Lettuce-Hothouse, 14fb15c per ID;
head lettuce, Florida. $2.5OQ2.75 per
hamper.
Onions-No. l yellow, s2659275;
No. 2, $1Q1.50 per 1O0-fb sacks; Span
ish. $4,000 per box.
Honey-Choice to fancy new white
comb, 16@17c; amber, 10G11c; ex-
tracted, 9Q1Oc per 10.
Potatoes-Carlots on track, 95e0$1
for white and 9OQ95c for red per bu;
russets. $1.05Q110 per bu.
Tsllow-No. 1, 8 SAC; No. 2. SAC
per 10.
Celery-California, s450G5 per
crate and 75cGs1 per doz.; Florida.
$2.50d2.75 per crate and 75cGs1 per
dozen.
Apples Greetings, S2.5O@sb0;
Spy. $1,000; Baldwins, S393.5O:
Steele Reds, s4G4.5O per Dbl; western
s1.75G2 per box.
Live Poultry-No, l spring chickens
IL 1-2d1sc; medium spring chickens.
IS 1-2417c; heavy hens, IL 1-2G1Sc;
medium hens, 10 I-2017c light hens.
14d15c; ducks, 1sG19c; geese 170
1Sc; spring turkeys 21d22c; old tur-
keys. 16G17c per 10.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

Wheat Cash No. = red, Slip 3-4c;
May opened at $115, declined to $1.l4
advanced to s115 and closed at $1.14
"a; July opened at Slip, touched
Sill and closed at SLIP; No. l white,
S107 ga.
Corn-Cash No. 3, zoe; No. yell
low. 72c asked; No. yellow, 69Q
zoe.
Standard Al 1-2c; No. white
43 1-2c asked; No white, Al 1-2c
asked.
Rye-Cash No ,, 94c.
Beans-Immediate and prompt ship
ment, $3.65; March, 1857; April
$3.50.
Seed-Prime spot red clover, SITS;
March, $12.25; prime alsike, 1915;
prime timothy, $3.50.
Hay-No. l timothy, S1S.5OG19;
standard timothy, $1L5O01S; light
mixed, $175OQ18; No. timothy, SIS
ale; No. l mixed $14@15; No. 2
mixed, $1Od13; No. l mixed, $14@15;
rye straw, $7.50GS; wheat and oat
straw. $6.5OG7 per ton in carlots, De-
troit.
Flour-In one-eighth paper sacks,
per 1876 TBS, jobbing lots; First pat
ent. $3.50; second patents, $3.50;
straight. $3.50; spring patent, 81;
rye -four, Sc per bbl
Feed-In 1o0-fb sacks, jobbing lots:
Bran, S26; standard middlings, s25;
fine middlings, $50; coarse cornmeal,
S31; cracked corn $33; corn and oat
chop, $29 per ton.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Live Stock.

DETROIT-Cattle Receipts, $3.50.
Best heavy steers, s775@S; best
handy weight butcher steers, S74
$50; mixed steers and heifers, sea
Z; handy light butchers. $6.25@6.50;
light butchers. $6@6.25; best cows, So
OOPS; butcher cows, S5.25Q5,50;
common COWS, s4.5OQ5; Gamers, $3.50
4; best heavy bulls, $646.25;
bologna bulls, $685.; stock bulls.
$5Q5.5O; feeders, S6.5Oq7; stockers,
$5Q625; mixers and springers, $S0Q
20.
Calves-Receipts, S75; best selling
at $11@115O, fair to good s9.5OQ1O.50.
culls $S.5OQ9.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts, $500.
Best lambs, $1O.75@11; fair lambs,
$950@10; light TO common lambs, So
QS.5O; yearlings s9@9.75; fair to
good sheep. $6q725; culls and COM
mon, $5Q550.
Hogs-Receipts, 1880. Best heavy
grades, $4,000; mixed, SS.756S.90;
pigs. $S.25Q8.5O.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

EAST BUFFALO-R Receipts of cat.
tie, 115 cars; market 1O@15c higher;
choice to prime native steers. $500
s.S5; fair to good, $77598.25; plain
and coarse, $75O@775; Canadian
steers, 400 TO 1850 lbs, $775QS.25;
do 1900 to 1850 lbs, $7.50@775; light
butchers steers, $7.5O@765; yearlings,
dry-fed $S.5098.75; best handy steers.
mixed, $70750; steers and heifers,
fair to good, $6.75@1O; prime heavy
fat heifers, $7G75O; light common
heifers, $5.5O96; best fat COWS, $3.50
al; butcher COWS, $506; cutters,
$4.50Q5; Gamers, $350@3.75; fancy
bulls, 1925; butcher bulls, S625G6.50;
sausage bulls, $5.25Q5.75; light bulls,
$4.5Oq5; stockers, good, $62566.75;
light common. S5@5.5O; feeders, $6.75
Z; mixers and springers. s60q80.
Hogs; Receipts, 100 cars; market
5G1Oc lower; heavy and mixed, $3.50
$3.50; workers., $9.4069.50; pigs,
SS25GS.75.
Sheep: Receipts, 60 cars; market
25c lower; top lambs, $11.4O@11.5O;
yearlings, S95Oq1O; wether5. 500
9.25; ewes, $8q8.50.
Calves; Receipts, 900; market
steady; tops, $12; fair to good, 500
Il; grassers, $4d5.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
TElEGRAPHlC FLASHES

London-Ulrig Parker, of Browns.
Vile, Tex who has been interned
since last June near Edinburgh. has
been ordered released by the British
government
Londoh-Funeral services fer Henry
James, famous novelist, were conduct
cd here. Among Shose present were
Walter II. Page. the United States
ambassador, and Mrs Page
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

Col. =. M. House, who departed for
Europe on December 2S, on a conf.
Dental mission for President Wilson,
arrived at New York from Falmouth.
Colonel House started at once for
Washington to meet the president.
The naval tug Peoria reported to
the navy department at Washington
that she had towoG disabled K-6 to
Pensacola. The K-6 developed engine
trouble while bound for Key West for
maneuvers.
Ohio c. Barber, millionaire match
manufacturer of Barberton, o., will
give his 100000 farm to Western
Reserve university for the establish
ment of modern agricultural college.
it was learned at Cleveland, o.
The federal indictment charging
Franz Bopp. German consul general at
San Francisco. and five others with
conspiracy to set on foot military ex-
petition TO encompass destruction of
British property, practically was dis
missed in the United States district
court.
One hundred and one indictments
against 100 brewing companies in
pennsylvania and the United States
Brewers association Of New York
were returned by the federal grand
jury at Pittsburgh, Pa. which investi.
gated alleged political activity of brew
ers.
A permanent organization of Ameri-
can mayors to promote the cause OF
national defense was effected at st.
Louis at meeting of mayors and their
representatives from 80 large cities
The organization is to be known as the
National Defense Conference of May
ors.
A dozen persons were injured when
west-bound passenger train No. 13 on
the Grand Trunk railway was derailed |
near Kingston Mills, Ont.
AN attempt was made 10 blow up |
the Journal Office at Providence, r. 1.
The bomb used either was not power |
full enough or went wrong. No great
damage was done. The Journal ex-
posed what it alleges to have been |
German propaganda in the United
States.
The packing house strike at Sioux
City, Ia, involving $500 men, was set
tied at mass meeting of the strikers
The vote to return to work was near
ly unanimous.
The copper range mines Baltic, Tri-
mountain and Champion will pay 20
per cent bonus to all employees for
March and April. it was announced at
Mich.
In a double execution at the Weth-
ersfeld, Conn, prison, Isaac n. Will
liams and Harry n. Roe were hanged
for the murder of Hubert Il. Case.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
European War News

me German sea raider MoeWe re-
turned safely to Wilhelmshaven Ger
many Her commander, Captain
Count Dohna-Schlodien, reported the
capture or sinking during her cruise
OF thirteen British, one French and
one Belgian vessel. Mines laid by the
Moewe resulted in the sinking of the
British battleship King Edward VII.
Aboard as booty the Moewe brought
$250,000 in gold bars captured from
the British steamship Appam.
Two hostile airships crossed over
the northeast coast OF England An
official statement, issued in London,
gave no information as to the dam
age done.
The Cologne Gazette estimates Rus
sian casualties in the recent fighting
near the Bessarabian frontier at 1885,
600.
The British steamship Rothesay of
2,007 tons has been sunk, presumably
by a submarine, according to dis
patch to Lloyds at London. The crew
was saved.
The British government will soon
introduce a bill establishing a mora
forum for soldiers, Reynolds Weekly
declared. Men in the service will be
freed from responsibility for paying
rent and insurance debts until the end
of the war;
The British destroyer Viking was
blown up by a mine on or about Janu-
airy 20, and all of it's officers and crew,
numbering about seventy, were lost,
according to word which reached New
York.
According to a Reuter- dispatch to
London from Petrograd the Russians
have captured Bitlis, in the Lake Van
region of Armenia The city was
taken by assault.
A German phalanx, hurled forward
by the crown prince, has driven in the
French front northeast Of Verdun. It
has taken the village of Douaumont
by storm and relieved the force inn
prisoned within Fort Douaumont, ac-
cording to the official statement from
Berlin. One thousand French were
captured.
The British official statement issued
at London on the fighting in the west
ern zone says: I'VE recaptured the
trenches at the bluff Of the Ypres-
Confines canal, which were lest Feb
ruary IA, and also captured a small
salient in the German line"
The French mine sweeper Au Re-
voir was torpedOed and sunk by Ger
man submarine in the English chan
mel. All the members Of the crew
were saved, says a dispatch to Havre,
France.
An Aust ian naval squadron APP
peared off the island of Corfu, blu, fed
back to--ard Cattaro when it sighted
fleet of allied warships, according to
a dispatch from Athens.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
Personal

Brig. zen. William Sooy Smith, who
fought under Buell. at Shiloh and un-
der Grant at Vicksburg, died at the
age of eighty-five years at his home
in Medford, Ore.
A Bucharest dispatch received by
Reuters Telegram company at London
by way of Amsterdam says the queen
mother Elizabeth of Roumania (Car-
men SYLVIA is dead. The queen was
Ill with pneumonia.
Mrs. Henrietta Williams, widow of
Gen. J. s. (Cerro Gordo) Williams, died
at Mount Sterling. Ky. During the
Civil war Mrs. Williams fitted out a
full company of Confederate infantry
at her own expense. She was ninety
years old.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
Domestic

Rev. Henry Jajeski, pastor of St.
Casimir's Polish Catholic church at
st. Paul, Mimi, was shot and instantly
killed by woman, said to be Mrs.
Amiela Dudek, wife of laborer of
Minneapolis and is said to have ten
children. Police Surgeon Dohm said
she is insane.
The four New York gunner who
robbed the Washington Park National
bank at Chicago of $4,000 under the
leadership of Eddie Mack were found
guilty by the jury in Judge Barrett's
court. The jurors deliberated just ons
hour.
Henry Siegel, New York banker and
department store merchant. whose ten
months sentence in Monroe county
penitentiary expired, was rearrested
at Rochester, N. Y.
Three men were injured when
compression air tank which they were
testing aboard the new U. S. dread
naught Nevada at the Fore River
Shipbuilding company's plant at
Quincy, Mass. exploded.
One hundred and fifty million dollars
In gold was unloaded secretly in New
York, after passing safely through
Canada. 1t is from the British govern.
ment. indirectly shipped by Japan, on
securities
When $4,000 persons crowded into
the Auditorium at Milwaukee to attend
the bazaar given for German and Aus
TRAN war sufferers the police locked
the doors TO keep out others who were
demanding admittance.
The hearing OF the suit for divorce
brought by Harry X. Thaw against his
wife. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, opened at
Pittsburgh. Pa. The hearings will be
private and none OF the evidence will
be made public. Mrs. Thaw was not
present
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
Washington

Finishing touches were being put on
the bill to increase the army by the
house military committee at Washing
ton with prospects that a final vote
on the measure would be reached be.
fore adjournment.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
Mexican Revolt

Gen. Benjaminza Argumedo, who op-
posed the Carranza government in La
Cuna and Durango districts, was court
martialed and executed at Durango
City, according to word received at
Ell Paso, Tex. at the Mexican con.
sulate.
Forces OF General Diaz have begun
their march on Mexico City An
nouncement was made by the Diaz
junta at New York that Aguilar now
controls so per cent of the line of the
Mexican Southern railroad.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
FAST and FREQUENT
SERVICE
PORT HURON
TO
DETROIT
BY THE
Rapid Railway

Limited cars leave Port Huron,
Eastern Standard time,
7:35 a. m. and every two hours to
1885 p. m, also 5:l5 a. m. Mondays
and 10 p. m. Sunday.
Limited cars leave Detroit,
8:l5 a. m. and every two hours to
s15 p. M, Sundays only IL p m.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

A serious street ca tie-up is on in
Washington, affecting all street car
lines. City officials failed in media
ton.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

Admiral Fletcher told the house
naval committee at Washington that
only fifteen Of the twenty-one battle
ships of the Atlantic feet are on active
duty in West Indian waters. three are
so crippled for lack of officers and
men that they cannot operate with the
feet. and the other three are undergo
ing repairs
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

An encouraging report on the condi.
ton and efficiency of the nations sea
forces was given the house naval CON-
mittee at Washington by Admiral
Frank Fletcher, commander In chief
OF the Atlantic feet. In individual
fighting efficiency, he declared. the
dreadnaughts led the world. while in
the skill of it's officers and men the
navy had no reason to fear COMPARE
son with that Of any other power.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

Henry Siegel, New York banker and
department store merchant, whose ten
months sentence in Monroe county
penitentiary expired. was rearrested
at Rochester. N. Y
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

The British official statement issued
at London on the fighting in the west
ern zone says: I'VE recaptured the
trenches at the bluff Of the Ypres-
Confines canal, which were lest Feb
ruary IA, and also captured a small
salient in the German line"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

The French mine sweeper Au Re-
voir was torpedOed and sunk by Ger
man submarine in the English chan
mel. All the members of the crew
were saved, says a dispatch to Havre,
France.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

An Aust ian naval squadron ap-
peared Off the island of Corfu, blu, fed
back to~ard Cattaro when 1t sighted
a fleet of allied warships, according to
a dispatch from Athens.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09

According to a Reuter- dispatch to
London from Petrograd the Russians
have captured Bitlis, in the Lake Van
region of Armenia. The city was
taken by assault.
Evening star., 1916-09-17

Mr.. Robert grins. "They ought to be
told about the Agnes, says he.
what about her?' says l.
"Why," says he, "she's the marine an
tique that Ollie Wade inherited from his
uncle, the old Commodore. A fine boat
in her day, too, but trife obsolete now
steam, of course, and scandalous coal
eater Slow, too; ten knots is her top
speed. But she's a roomy, comfortable
old tub, and Ollie would be glad to get her
off his hands for month or two. Sup
pose L"
"Would you mind, Mr.. Robert l
breaks in, "if discovered the Agnes for
'em? might boost my battin' average
with Auntie; and maybe | could work
Ollie for commission"
"Here!" says Mr. Robert shown over
the desk phone. snake him give you five
per cent. at least. Here's his number"
60 that's how it happens | come to be
pilotin' this trio of treasure-hunters--
Auntie, Old Hickory, and Captain Rupert
Evening star., 1916-09-17

ans. In more recent years, eastern and
southeastern Europeans have poured into
this country, Russia, Austria Hungary,
Turkey, Greece, and Italy having dis
covered the advantages Of American life.
In practically every respect this new i'm
migration is inferior to the old. The great
majority of the immigrants are men-they
do not come in families, as did the Irish
and Germans forty years ago. The
standards are lower. Will conditions now
change? Will the exodus from the north
ern European countries, especially Great
Britain and Germany, set in again?
One thing we may take for granted:
unless artificial barriers are raised, there
will be no decrease in the new immigra-
tion." Certain sections Of Europe that
have furnished us the largest numbers Of
our recent immigrants have figured as the
battle-ground of this war. These are the
places in Hungary and Russia which the
armies have crossed and recrossed, and
visited with unspeakable devastation.
Austria-Poland, the province of Galicia,
the scene of the early victorious Russian
campaigns and of their present renewed
offensive, has sent us immigrants every
year by the thousands. Certainly the
wretched people there will have greater
reasons than ever for wishing to get away.
The scene of the great German drive in
Russia is almost identically the place
from which our Russian Jews come. The
Russian second line Of defense, from Riga
through Kovno, Wilma, Bielostok, Brest-
Litovsk, marks almost the western frontier
of the famous Jewish pale Of settlement.
What miseries the poor Jews suffer there
in peace times we know; what they have
suffered in the war we can only family
imagine.
Only one thing will keep them there
after peace-the impossibility Of getting
Evening star., 1916-09-17
MAGAZINE SECTION for September II, 1916

away. There will be thousands Of Jews
in this country, however, ready to f.
nance their migration. In the last ten
years there has been large migration
from tho Balkans, ,-Bulgarians, Servians,
Rumanians, and Greeks,-and from the
Asiatic provinces Of Turkey, especially
Armenia. Certainly the causes that impel
this movement, in the main economic,
have been intensified by this war.
More English than German
Immigrants Recently
THESE southeastern Europeans will still
migrate, therefore; but how about the
proletariat from Great Britain and Ger
many? In the last few years England
has been sending an increased number Of
immigrants to this country. Numerically
it is not large; most people will be sur
prised to learn, however, that our immi-
grafton from England is larger now than
that from Germany or Ireland. Thus in
1913 the German Empire sent us "a, 600
immigrants and Ireland 1900, while
England shipped more than $4,000.
This movement from England will prob
ably increase after the war. The condition
Of the working classes will certainly be-
come worse. In all likelihood, Germany
will increase her quota Of immigrants; for,
whatever the result Of the war, her eco
nomic status will suffer. While this prob
able revival of the 3old" immigration will
not surpass, in numbers, the 9new," it
may take on considerable proportions.
Industrial depression in the United
States not impossibly will follow the war;
but, as in the days succeeding the
Napoleonic conflict, it will be so inn
measurably less distressing than that in
Europe that it will not prevent large
migration to this country.