Show I LAST IMil BAnS IMMIGRATION report of The rite annual report of Ute the Immigration commission slon for tor the last decal year eu shows a n total of ot Immigrants of ot which M III lliO lose lets than tho the total of ot the preceding year One feature of this title In Is the falling oft ort of ot the tha emigration from eastern rn and southern soul hem Europe and n nd the Increase tram from rein Ireland and Among the excluded last bet year wore wor wore i S paupers 1604 1600 diseased convicts and 1501 1601 contract laborers Among the admitted were no lees 1 than Illiterate II The Tho great number of QC contract labor laborera ors era caught and returned suggests that an nn Immense e Illegal traffic must be bo cur clod on In this thin line The Immigration claims to have havo Information to the effect that American laws uro are care roro carefully carefully fully full studied abroad and devices d adopt adopted ed to evade and thwart them Immigrants grants It H la sold said who have been beon or surely would be bo refused admission to our son eon ports are arc systematically Intro Introduced introduced through Canada ant and Mexico The governments of Hungary and Italy and ando possibly o of ot other European countries are arc said eald to openly or 01 covertly cooper cooperate cooperate ate with steamship companies In de doe deporting a porting masses of their poorest and most Ignorant people p And Anti finally thousands thousand of Europeans come nomo to this country lawfully remain Just long enough to citizenship and then remove to other countries where they employ their American citizenship as asa a asa a II moans means of oC protection Such and other abuses call for correction Concerning the tho contract contrad labor Importations Commissioner Sargent recommends that tho the law be he o made mude to roach rench the employer and find that he be punished rather than the Im Int Immigrant migrant who Is quite likely to be ht a 1 victim Instead of ot a 11 coconspirator co This Is ii do good suggestion but It does doo not po go to the root of oC the evil The feel fact Is that American girls even eon those In n humble circumstances refuse o places as n III domestics and prefer any other kind of employment Hut housework must bo ho done In the same canto way American boys boy II do not nol care caro to or are arc not permitted permit permitted ted td to learn trades The result Is a continued domestic dom ail skilled labor famine and n a standing temptation to supply the Iho market from rom abroad The remedy for this Is le In domestic reform rather r than legislation |