The New York herald., 1922-02-13
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Havana week and you are compelled
TO conclude that they must know at
least some OF the traffickers. You are
compelled to believe it because if you
are at all curious you can find out
for yourself.
But they. like Mr.. Mcfarland at
Tampa, will tell you that they are of
insufficient numbers and equipment t6
do more than collect information to-
cay that tomorrow may be misinfor-
nation.
Not Enough Detectives on Job.
There are six or, at the outside. ten
OF these Government sleuths here in
Havana at the present time. They
came here at the behest of the Cuban
Government and as the result of re-
ports made by the American Consul
The MacFarland report added what
ever weight the call for investigation
required and. to repeat, these Govern
ment detectives are here in Havana
saying that everything Mr.. MacFar-
land wrote was utterly true but, like
him, they add that you cannot bring
down an elephant with a popgun.
The most reliable estimates have it
that there are in Cuba at the present
time between fifty and seventy-five
thousand Chinese. 1t would be incor-
rect to say that all of these Celestials
are yearning for transportation to
America. But it is not untrue to say
that the vast majority of them look to
the forbidden shores to the north with
yearning eyes and are merely waiting
the favorable opportunity.
At least half the merchant and pas
senger ships touching Cuban ports
from Europe fetch Italians, Spaniards,
Austrians. Germans, Poles and Rus
slams. Cuban immigration laws are
quite liberal, but the fact of the matter
is that the Zayas Government is more
interested in its own financial rehabil-
itation than in anything else. Such
things as infractions of whatever i'm
migration laws there are may be
classed as minor evils in Cuba to-day.
The same survey that supplied The
New YORK HERALD correspondent with
the Chinese figures places at 100000
the number Of Europeans who have
flocked to Cuba since the adoption by
the United States of the present re-
strictive immigration law.
There are those American business
men and English speaking and think
ing journalists here who say the num-
Der is far larger You may put the
question to Cuban officials and be an
swered with a shrug-a most nom
committal shrug that leaves you con-
vinced that you are wasting your time
seeking information there.
All that the Treasury Department
men have done (and they grudgingly
admit it) is to have scattered the traf-
fic. Probably it would be better to say
that they have spread it over a longer
shore. A year ago about 80 per cent
of the smuggling of aliens was done
right out Of Havana harbor. To-day
IL extends from Cardenas and Matan-
zas to Mariel and Cabanas and possi-
bly, further.
Traffic Going On Two Years.
This your correspondent knows. He
has talked to four men who freely
(almost Voluntarily admitted to him
that they have transported aliens into
the United States for two years. With
in the last week he has sat with one
of these men in the lobby of Ha-
vana hotel while an intelligent young
Chinese dickered with him to carry a
batch of forty of the latter's country
men to the vicinity of Tarpon Springs,
Fla.
mo" replied the dummy runner, Il
will not carry them. I've carried
enough for the present. Try -.
He needs the money more than / do
"The Chink probably thinks me un-
grateful" he chuckled to the writer,
because he helped put me on my feet
financially. I came here broke, with
a motor boat and. hell of a gall. /
began carrying Chinese to the west
coast of Florida for $500 head. Two
trips and I had enough to start the
booze game. I'm sticking to booze.
Carrying Chinese and Italians and
Jews is getting to be dangerous
How about opium?" the reporter
asked.
Say" roared the big sailor, what
do you mean opium? Do you think
I'm one of those rats? What the hell?
I'm a bootlegger, yes, and / used to
smuggle Chinks, and the rest, but I'm
no dope runner. I'm an American yet,
despite the Eighteenth Amendment"
Before going into the personal rem
iniscences of this and other avowed
dummy runners it Is of interest TO
observe tie main facts as gathered
from their combined statements-a
consensus report, so to speak.
First of all, Chinese pay best. The
Chinese (and this does not mean the
Coolie by any means) is so anxious
to get into America that he will pay
from slO0 to $500 to be carried to any
one of the Gulf ports. He comes to
the West Indies by way of the Panama
Canal. There are half a dozen infiuen-
tial and prosperous Chinese merchants
in Havana who will help him connect
with the persons who will smuggle
him INTO America.
Chinese Labor Popular In Cuba.
He may have been a merchant in
China and may be well equipped to
enter the mercantile field in America.
but he is willing to work as a laborer
while in Cuba marking time. Cuba
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