| Show THE troublesome HUNS their unsightly and unruly colonies in pennsylvania mining towns that arc like the slums of oar great Cities Lawlessness and on sunday and any A recent number of the american of civics contains an interesting article on the pennsylvania huns by W F gibbons these troublesome residents of alic keystone state are not genuine magyari magyars Magy ars not strictly speaking of the hungarian race but slavs like russians and poles their first introduction in pennsylvania was the work of employing corporations which imported them to cheapen labor alie law soon interposed a barrier against this importation but the immigration of was not interrupted the wages aliey get in pennsylvania although too small for americans to live on arc greater than they receive at home so they continue to arrive coal miners meet them in new york and offer work in pennsylvania mr gibbons cites the census tables showing that at the latest enumeration pennsylvania contained and the united states but alie pennsylvania ore mostly collected in the comparatively small anthracite coal regions of the wyoming and schuylkill valleys A single county lucerne contained in 1890 as many as the entire state of ohio since 1890 despite hard times and the return of many immigrants to their own country the number of has largely increased alie mining towns where these people live are like the slums of our great cities the streets are filled with garbage and riot soften resulting in homicides are expected on the sunday after every pay day of course most of alie original inhabitants have left they did not stand upon the order of their with dispatch in some towns only a few voters remain alie murder of a diun by one of his own race creates no demand for justice in the minds of his surviving countrymen if the survivors be approached says mr gibbons and urged to call in the law alicy will grunt expressively and remark with more or less distinctness dead no good indeed an ordinary murder passes almost without comment aliese people are not incapable of learning some lessons in the school of experience they have been cheated and blackmailed outrageously by dishonest officials at alie mines and by english speaking miners but they have gotten their eyes open at last and are extremely alert they have learned alie art of saloon keeping and they are getting into politics mr gibbons saya eliat already in some communities there is alie shadow of the coming hungarian political boss in every list of honorary vice presidents at the great political meetings prominent places arc given ane men deanna suan names as arsenius or kubo auns ibave been made postmasters in some places and have begun to elect their own justices of the peace it is noted as a hopeful indication that they have begun to leave the company houses and alie boarding kiouses and to establish themselves in homes of their own some of them have grown rich that is rich for the second generation is not in kiy gibbons opinion an improvement on the first he states that the immigrants with few exceptions could read their own language but that their children are taken from school and put to work before they have made much progress in rudimentary education few of them go to the public schools and there is a slim attendance at alie parochial schools these are the inevitable results of the great reduction of wages in the coal and coke regions almost every evil is productive of some good the huns are better off in pennsylvania than they were in their own country but it will strike the general reader that pennsylvania haa paid is paying and will long continue to pay a heavy price for the betterment of the huns condition washington post |
