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Show COUNTRY AS MINE OF WEALTH. Paid Agent Misrepresent Condition to Secure Immigration. "Misrepresentation on the part of paid agents Is the chief reason for so much of tho undesirable immigration to this country," said George F. Wagner Wag-ner of Chicago, who has recently returned re-turned from a trip to Germany and Austria. "The agents go among the peasant classes and tell them of the money that can bo made by coming to America. Tho standard of wages Is so much lower there and the money itself divided Into smaller denominations de-nominations thnt these promises are alluring. The agent, however, falls to tell them that living expenses are proportionately higher In this country. So tho peasant sells what property he has, and with his family takes passage pas-sage for America, the land of quick fortunes. Arriving here they soon discover that while the scale of wages Is all that they have been promised and that work Is plentiful, they can make no mora and probably not as much In this strange country. Their Idea of America Is about the same as that of two Irishmen who camo over not long ago. They had been told that In America gold was found lying around on the streets and all a man had to do was to go out and pick up as much as he wanted. As luck would have It they had no more set foot on shore than one. of them did find a $10 gold piece. Passing on they met one of the professional blind beggars. beg-gars. 'Here,' said tho Irishman. 'You take this $10 piece, I nm not blind nnd I can look for more.'" |