The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-28
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
f.. m $500 APIECE TO BE
/ cMrrGGLED SAFELY IN.
EABLE TO CHECK THE FLOOD

Ia States Government, Even
Ivitb Cooperation of the Cuban
rtborities, Has Made Little Prog
ess in Stemming Tide.
r,a smuggling OF foreigners into
lated States is a game that is
being PLAYED with great proht
o,,obopt the West Indies, and par
,,.T,v along the northern coast OF
Hordes of Chinese, Europeans
A.;atics are being spirited into
ida Alabama, Mississippi and
,;;s;sna after assembling in Cuba,
ere thew offer anywhere from SIS to
.o;ece to be landed on the Amer
shores along the Gulf OF Mexico.
he American government has thus
;ne4ectively combatted this grow
+ra4ic which rivals in viciousness
a rrn r,,1iT OF booze into Uncle Sans
territory. The Cuban government
Dntting forth its best effort to CO.
yats with the United States IN
limo no the smuggling OF unde-
bie humans into this country.
New Law Started Tarfic.
snite OF all efforts to check the
4 IT illegal immigration ships con-
" to nut out from Mariel Bay, west
Havana, or from Matanzas, to the
-. nth Chinese or eastern
southern Europeans bound tor
npa. Tarpon Springs, Apalachicola'
sacola or even Mobile.
he smuggling of Orientals has been
red on for some time, but the
Fic received its great impetus when
's limited States passed its law linn
o the number of immigrants from
foreign country. When the act
III into effect virtually every Euro
h port had its quota OF men clam,
H. for passage to America, the land
j golden opportunity.
Steamship. Men Pointed Way.
he citizens of the old country who
"a bid cross the seas to make theiT
s Fine in the new world were told
the steamship agents that only 50
Inv Poles. Serbs, Croats, Germans,
etriaus. Italians and so on could en-
into the United States every month.
companies operating the big pas
ger liners compiled waiting lists,
SN these became so long that those
Jill back on the lists became discour-
was then that other steamship
es hits approached them with the in
NATION that their vessels touched
St Indian ports-Cuba, Jamaica,
Hi and the Dominican Republic.
agents explained that the Unit
States was but a step to the north.
kcreet propagandists went about tell
81 how easily man might take the
sl to the north.
Cuba and Jamaica Rebelled.
he restless aliens hearkened to the
pagandists. and in a short time the
st Indies. principally Cuba and J a
Eca, began to receive a food OF Eu-
ia ean immigration wholly unprece-
lied and so undesirable in spots that
IN began 10 raise strenuous ob-
ion to it. The Cuban government
leaed to the United States to do
8lething about it.
the same time, Jamaica, under the
pB tection OF the British crown, enter
a protest in London and at Wash
aton Its local police began to make
atters unpleasant for the foreigners
- were landing in Kingston, to be-
IN immediate recruits to the al
~ too large army OF unemployed.
laCt Jamaica made it so unpleas-
Tor the more Objectionable OF the
comers that they hurried away to
a.
Operatives Few in Number.
he force OF operatives which the
Pted States treasury department has
'.8 the Cuban water fronts is all too
j. Beng insufficient in number and
pment, these government sleuths
DO little more than collect intor-
Flon today that tomorrow may be
information.
he most reliable estimates have it
there are in Cuba at the present
between $4,000 and $4,000 Chi
"a The vast majority OF them look
The forbidden shores of America
warming eyes and are merely
ing the favorable opportunity.
same survey that supplied the
ieSe hgures placed at 100000 the
2 lOer OF Europeans who have flock
10 Cuba since the United States
y closed its immigration gates.
Chinese Pay Largest Fees.
all the dummy runners" the
leSe pay best. The celestial is so
GUS to get into the United States
ne will pay from $500 to $500 to
AIRED TO any one OF the gulf ports.
( are half dozen influential and
a9uS chinese merchants in Hav-
VINO will help him connect with
prisons who will smuggle him in
VIC United States. The Chinese
,e5 Cuba because his labor is
.eu there and he is within an over
trip to Florida.
s Ilahan desires to go TO Tampa,
M iIS' c, city with total population OF
~ mas about $4,000 Italians. 1t is
W 'n1gle with these and event
10 aTiit to the north.
n PAID DOG FEE BUT