New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
Deportees Fear
Life Sentence
On the Ocean
Ordered Exiled by U. S,
They Say Their Native
Lands Will Refuse Them
Two Claim Citizenship
Complain of Treatment by
Officers: Continues to
Fight for Their Freedom

Forty-hvc men. erstwhile |. W. VS.
now domlcilod on Ellis Island, feel that
they are doomed to perpetual life on
the Ocean Wave. Like Philip Nolan,
the man without a country, they must
spend their remaining days roaming
tho Seven Seas, unless the Department
of Labor relents and withdraws the
deportation order against them, they
believe
These are the men who were brought
here from the Pacific Coast for depor-
tation. In almost every case the coun-
try of their birth will refuse them en-
try on the ground of expatriation, and
no other country Will have them.
If finally deported, they may ulti-
matcly join Moses Baritz, who has
been sailing the seas, seeking corn-
try since he was deported from San
Francisco last year. Baritz was &C
ported to Australia. burt was rcfu cd
entry there in Canada and most of the
Asiatic countries.
Two of the men on Ellis Island arc
American citizens who arc to be dc
ported irrespective of their citizenship.
One, Macgregor Ross, sixty-six-year
old lumbcrman of the coast, is to be
sent 20 Scotland because of his name
Ross owns his own home in Seattle, and
was arrested. he said yesterday, while
on his way to an [. w ". meeting in
that city.
One Born in Cleveland, He Says
The other American is Louis Msche
!" telling his story yesterday. Mische
said he was born in Cleveland June p,
1890 He has two married sisters living
III Brooklyn, but does not know their
present names.
Mischc said: II was arrested by the
Sheriff OF Pend d'Orille County with
cut a warrant on December ~, 1917,
and had been held incommunicado IN
Spokane up to the time ! vas brought
10 New York for deportation. During
that time l was subjected to three
examinations by Inspector A. T. Rich
acdson without being permitted counsel.
am not an anarchist and have never
advocated violence"
BY far the most picturesque of the
deportees is +. Z. Mcdonald, who de-
clared that despite his name he was
born in Denmark thirtyfour years ago.
He has been in this country since he
was eight years old. Mcdonald is the
poet laureate of the new community
on Ellis Island. Yesterday he dashed
off the following outpouring of the col
loctive souls of his fellow deportees:
Song of the Alien Deportees
lar across the foam-fecked ocean
Came the hordes from Europes shore
To enjoy the freedom rendered
To the ones oppressed so sore
By eold-crowued king or regent
Or q noble knight
We were with those hordes from Europe,
From oppression we took flight
With song of Joy for freedom
Some of us first this land
We could feel our serfs chains slipping
From our minds. our tongues, our hand
We could see Rartholdis statue
How its light shone on the sea,
Lighting UP the path Of freedom
n this land Of liberty
Now we've helped to fell tho forest
Md we've dug deep in the mines
We have built the towering buildings,
We have laid the railway lines.
And because asked to share them
All the profits of our toll
We must leave this land of freedom
And to others leave the spoil
IN the shadow of the statue
That 8artholdi's hand designed
We are waiting for the mandate
That viii make US leave behind
All the friends and kin and loved ones
We have here this fair shore.
We waiting to be exiled
From this land forevermore.
Ready to Face Court
"If | have committed crime let m
face a court and take my medicine,
said Mcdonald. If not, | consider m
incarceration worthy not Of Americ
but Russia under the Cars"
Arthur J. Smith, another Of the dc
portees, declared he had been offcre
parole if ne would renounce his mem
bership in the /. W. w 81 refused lii
erty with a string to it.' he declared
Charles Recht and Caroline A. Love
attorneys for the men, are going t
Washington to place briefs with com
petc statements OF facts in each cas-
before Secretary Wilson in an effort
ont ain +hc rpleaoe If tho mon