Show i ONE N MILLION N NEW COUSINS 0 ALL ABOUT ADOPTING THE INTO IMMIGRANTS OUR NATIONAL WHICH FAMILY UNCLE SAM IS I T I 0 Ille r Nt Neros us by j G t Car t I Jr on and do de of at the Goths Gotha W V the Roman empire the tho hord hordos slot ot of st ill the e Imo I destroy our re rc sJ Ignorant Is beginning 10 public Our minds n lade ot of our lIr Ih Is hy by imm the beginnIng ot of our tOv Iea X pram From Just about no naw come Conte Inlo this country have baO ere creel Is about yens Tre 11 t the past palt 1 months the 1 than 1 OM O numbered a awit rIt 20 pcr cent more than wo was 1145 wit h haver have before beton We VC Mr year led Iud In any ln ha MW In rowed numbers r people r II x wo 10 added 1 ono one u 1 I r ya 3 every tery SO casts r to us to know who these It II nr nth where th they come tram rom and ando rc o Inure than an any other olho l 11 Its 1 up 31 per cent or almost I ouo third lit It last lasto earlI o came next with 1111 and niter that Illinois ln lt and New Jet Jersey 4 The needs to develop Its arming got Itol t nothing and the r a we west l little A large put part or of Pennsyl Ii went Walt into Inlo the tho coot ani Ohio had nl u a 11 largo large number ot of th dress e J X X r X X f it its r Y rv ri r r r r y y y y i X f y b bv bA v A Y y t J a 1 y J s s s tot I II s ei w t tL tI I i it f L t E r I t Y t I 1 t t f t I I N nt sue they are To rind find out tied on Mr Frank p t the Iho general ot of lion uA ked many ll In 11 reply 1 out and nod It chants the time shoved tie photo 1 recently mode mado ot at sotto uno or of our cur curiT ur iT u S IS urn lUG RITE I faked ked Mr Ir Sargent Dont you t k k Sam II h biting ott moro more than lI ln chew A million In the row raw le Is a af kg f Can In the country al and d It II Yu Tea replied the commissioner gen genet Immigration et of The Tho tooth or of our are strong and Its en ca It If the immigrants are of at the I t mud they can enn bin be right we shall have hae no whatever The difficulty thaI man many of at them are ignorant and they elf thaw a to congest our b 1 titles cities They are not like the Im ot of the drat nr l three quarters of or 11 cedar who echo crone with the tho Uen 10 te be farm tarm owners settled n fl cur nur home tends and other cheap nand l and scattered out over oer the I t States Such need and ancl were Into Inlo T Their children learned our Hinge ure I nil nil n ere erp quickly I the bor t Thos tie from r m north rrt In Europe and ei ea rny tro thc They formed the bull bulk ot of our until well ell lip up Into Inlo the rb es The rant t ot of our Immigrants 1111 from n Ita Italy I and Ruela and they are day rather than tarn tarm Hellion A MILLION NEW All AmeriCAn n citizens lire are tho Iho nephews and nieces ot of Sum thun fell mo me about title this new lleW roil mil Ilon of at raw who hat n nour our cousins In Most Ot ot of taro 1110 not bud and they will sake gaud 1101 members of at our national family replied the of at Still there are rare birds among them coil some omo are so eo ball bad that wr Wl have or eo lack back to the coun whence they came the Italians Thoro were wre mote mOle ot of them than lh there ro arc people III ht t the 11 city o of Genoa OpMa anti ot of lb them come from Italy wern sern s about 00 d Ifs Iule I airs anti n large number ot of other and Hun WIS We 1 admitted over oer SOMO and something like 1111 and nOlI h b AI Aa to 10 OUr r II t TWO HOLLAND HUSKIES FRO FROM SOUTHERN EUROPE i X people from southeastern I Europe we brought In Slovaks dug yore and and and 1000 Ore Greks k HUNDREDS OF 01 THOUSANDS CANT WRITE How do these compare I w Ith ot of the tho net III ae to Illiteracy I asked They contain can lain many more who ho can cannot not read or write The Immigration from northern from 1880 to 1896 1836 woe extraordinarily well educated J ot Of I those thoc tram from D Norway and Swe don den wo rarely found ono one who could not read and write only about I 3 J per c cent nt of at the Scotch Irl Irish h and h were ro illiterates and only 8 per Iler percent I cent ot bt th the Germane In contrast take lako our nur from 1901 1900 to 10 l OG Ot Of I the Rde Tans and l one Om man In every tour or five was 1110 elate I I te and lit of the H 18 per por cent could not read or write During Durin that time oe over 1000 lauded here nod more than lhnn ot of them were to totally lall tally uneducated Our Scandinavian are uro on the whole tha best educated u e C TIlEY GO Where arc these 0 now going oln Mr Sargent I n asked ked The majority reek Feck the 1 large cilles and the various factory nil and In Th rhoy Y are fie lIS I have hae already nil largely laborer who I f have hae comp como here to get on an asler job mod better betler wages New ew York elate gets gels v II A Million a Year and aud Mostly Front From Southern Who Cannot Write or Read Thc Paupers and the Diseased and How l They Arc Kept Kt Out Contract Labor The Immigrants Should be bc the tte Tout For About Our Incoming Russians and Cheap LaborA Talk With the Commissioner General of Immigration r tion as ae to the thc Situation T But BUI you rou must not think that nil all of at thesa theco Immigrants are Mr lr Sargent went on There are many engage In other businesses The vs for tor often otten go Into merchandising The are small email and also and members of at the clothing The northern Italians are usually better oft orr those thosA from about Naples und and many or of them therm become farmers The Tho and 1 BrItish go Into Inlo nil all sorts sarIs ut of and ond enterprises I suppose moat mils I of at these immigrants were lr poor Yes the majority had hod little or noth nothIng nothing Ing Nevertheless Iho total ann brought In by them In 1905 1903 amou d to 10 mono than thun I 1 the mo most l ot of that tha t um sum came from the English o and Germans Germane did It not 1 Yes proportionately so o There Were Iere English and the they brought about whereas nearlY us as many Mag Magyars brought le less s than The Tho Irl Irish h had almost n a million and a ahalt halt while the snore marc than double as minty Jews had only about more The Germans brought In and more than ns as mUll many southern Italians hn had 1 nut not ne as much Altogether there less than who ha had 1 8 0 or more each and about aboul who n hu had har less than that amount The balance were children oho ho had none nt at all What Is the cause or of this great cat In Increase crease In our Immigration Mr rr Corn General It Is largely due to 10 the era of at pros pally this country la h tow 1101 bw In tog 1111 Ind the Iho riot IJ tr for arising It 1 you look I a th tl rl t sa n u d fait ot of Ion slice our beg g gas nil as nn an Independent you ou HII s e hunt hat t we have n 11 big lit r t for nets lIell as t s are s tut hit t the lloa slops Ili y become hud bat is III one of the lito best Qt of thermometers to 10 test teRI our II n 1 I condition rood iota IIi e beg lip up to oo oo o o oo 1556 the tho rise comparatively ly steady teah Then Thon came me the panic ot of 1857 1557 and the tho civil war and tho number of grants fell tram from over to 10 le less s than per war closed the tho rose rosc and ond gradually ap when the panic of at 1873 sent It down It rose rosc to 10 almost In 1853 and then because ot of nn an other hard hurd II S season again 1 11 In dropped to tall fall till her down attar The Tho pre present enl In 1 begun with 1 99 when It nas In lithe ov over r The grants 0 admitted In 1905 were wert 1026 It If wo should 1 hn have vo n a ee season lSon of at II fi troubles I have no doubt our immigration would lit at once tall oft orr and that we 0 should lo lose e many ot of the men who are coming now CO CONTRACT LABOR LADOn Are not nol many man of at our immigrants brought In ht b by the thc owners of at mines aunt and factories Are Ato they not nol furnished 1 with mone money and imported ht violation ot of OUr h laws s ns as to contract labor It seems natural to think so O said Baht the commIssIoner general ot of but bUl It is III to provo prove It Take for tor In Instance such luch II a case cao a as tre fru occurs In which men more or less Jells each cach u with Ith the tho same amount ot of money l at tho same time limo tram from ono small community In 1 Europe for tor the slime same port ot of the United Slates nod OIHI upon landing all make their to 10 ono one locality where the they go to In work orl for tor one tudor factory or you not nol think that thoRe men were Im Imported ported under contract We do but bUl we vve It almost Impossible to prevent It II Indeed I 1 have hae little doubt but bUl that touch labor Is Imported that way This may be thu ca ease e with the who largely cly worked hero here hereby b by contract they land with pil pa padrones drones In charge RI III SCAT SCAr n Would it II not nol be 0 far better bolter for thu tho country II Sargent It time th o people could bo Ii scattered red throughout the tho Unit ell Stales 8 I III jH 7 Very much so and I am doing ell I Iun Iran ran un that end ud Indeed I thInk It pay the national government and the to 10 Institute measures 1 the he 1 Induced to tn go where they will nu the Ino most t good fur tor themselves and I the hi country This work should begin inthe In till the from which ihn grunts come III C As 11 It Is now the gla tx l why who congest our nur big III cities have havo goon hero thero their friends who lUll ate boring In have written them They HU gu where then friends lire are III and It I do nut nol knew that Ihal hero arc better hero They expect to 10 toil Onel good Jobs and big blK ply lay n for lh their m I the he moment they thoy land In New Nel York often full into Inlo the hands hanl handsor or t nl fit and urn uto led The Tho national government might pre snot Bont the tho offered by differ out ent sections or of the tho Untied States to Immigrants abroad and nl iiI o n havn or of Information at our chief perta to show how them herB to 10 go 0 upon landing The states which h so t tI I need immigrants should 1 send en 1 agents to 10 foreign to drum up the best classes of at settlers and they I their In the th language of at the countries from where I the come orne I Each ach such Buch stale SIal should have It a representative III at New Nell York to el as they land landat at J Ellis Inland and he could It ho would take them to see sto nn an exhibition ot of the Iho products or of his hili state all mt show how nearby Such coca as were cle desirable es settlers night be helped on their WilY Today the south is 18 suffering tram a labor labat famine continued Mr rr Sargent Nevertheless or of the million who como came In In last l year ear only H per cent Went south of Mason and Dixons line Mary land Wesl VirgInIa and each received only about aboul and Louisiana Texas could use me hundreds ot of thousands or of settlers but sho tot got only 1000 out or of that million till 1111 not get Kal SOO and Kentucky Kentuck null less lass What should he done Is to divert the tho streams or of Immigration It If po possible to tn different ports Why should no not I Loul l anti and Texas have Immigrants land Ing at al New Orleans and In stead lit of New York I 1 suppose one of at the great at cau causing emigration from Europe Is thu tho steamships Yes NI They rhey make from O to 10 30 out ot of ouch man limn lh they y brIng th the A At 1 and some single carry a 3 thousand or more ul at II a time Tints This means receiving from 30 COO to from that for or a single voyage Every o en steamship company hall tras its lis agents scattered throughout J Ill up such Buch custom School and toai zany re recelo celo r e small per Ier enl cent 1 of the Iho passage money for tor ouch person they Induce tl to togo go and there are also allo runners In rn and southern Europe who Ro 0 from city to city and front from village to village for this purpose o They rhey tell airy tales the th rity ot of the man irony Immigrants now In America and of at lh the opportunities we offer to aliens IlIen It 11 Is by such uc means that paupers and I e ad p Me are induced to make makl the tho journey only to 10 fin find 1 that they are shipped back upon landing landings As s to the Importation of un characters the general that ts is largely prevented now by our h law l We make each steam or er pay fine for tor every person brought t to 10 or shores who does no not I corr correspond pond with the tho regulations of at Rd ad and at the tho same time lime WI we force torce the tho companies to carry persons hack free frell of at charge The result is 18 IL a steam steamship ship will sometimes refuse to 10 take an ImmIgrant without he deposits with It to 10 cover the danger of lr this fine OUR oua 1 IMMIGRANTS IM Rut Dut do we not nol a admit many paupers Into the country Wo We try In to prevent It said Mr Sar Sargent gent jent And net we IVo do send man many such back Ark to Furone Lost year car just about were wera rotu refused leI admission and moro mare than 2000 were kept out because they had contagious diseases As It Is now nolY nowa a 11 large larRe proportion of at the tho inmates of at atour our penal and nud charitable institutions are IVe 0 have mOrA mare than I In such places and ot of theca shout are over 21 years old The ot of then carne camo In through h Now York although they are scattered 1 all 1111 j t over till the country As It Is III now morn mono than man 28 S per c cent nt ot of all 1111 the members I of such institutions are pt pf foreign n birth anti and more 11 per cent have never h been en on naturalized nU SI NR CO COMING IINO TO AMERICA Are the tho Russian troubles our Yes Yell We have had n a big increase from that ot of lh the world and It If the troubles wo we will have more morl WI We got 1101 tram from Russia nn and Finland In IDO 1001 end about Ians year nn an increase ot of just about The Increase In our number of at Is largely duo to the troubles I In Russia Wo We got gal of at thorn last year tar CHINESE m AP LA LABOR On about the Chinese Mr tr Sar Sargent ar argent gent Are ro not thc they unjustly kept out cut 7 1 think not nOl The They are nc ac according cording to 10 haw 1111 and the tho laws are fairly enforced Both Rath our government that or of the tho empire or of Chita to keep these out lut of at the 1 States Nm the tho 1 am Rr such that It I Is difficult to do so po Jt It costs us to 10 guard Isla hiA class 0 of Improper thor that almost an another other Tim Tho Chinese who wishes to 10 como hero Is usually ahlo to 0 I the best legal advice to help hIm ho he eon secure witnesses to testify to 10 nay r thing and ran can tempt smugglers by the payment ot of urge sums or of money flu Is backed backal by organizations which are arc zy t tready ready rendy to 10 help him to almost any extent I and it II Is III to 10 k keep I him 1110 out I It not nol true that the haven 11 Insulted by our Immigration officers an and 1 It is 18 not true that we trout trout 1 unfairly In any 13 way We merely ear car earry i ry out the tho lam How many Chinese ame In last year 1 than 2004 1000 and wr WI SPit sent l hack back under the Chinese exclusion ln net What kind of Chinese can an aim m into th United States The Tho treaty ft or the 1 r sinn ot of teachers students travelers and the hao ma yo vo that tits end and ot of ner mer chants may Ulan alln he bp We haul more than hll o who incited ad 1111 admission mission an fI merchants Ills 1 year and about admitted I 0 Tm t |