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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1906)
TIIE OMAITA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 21, 190(1. 9RS fratn Ksptxs Antoila Fortunt Lodl, with hr Are children ranging In age from 14 to I years. The y were pom I ng to Join the hus band and father, who chose to deny tha parentage of th younrest child and thereby prerlpttAted a sorrowful muddl. a tha Immigration authorities were com pelled to deport this child, aa likely to be come a public charge, and alao the mothar with tha babjr aa Ita guardian. Tha Italian law, aa well aa the flrrt Instincts of na ture, would keep her In Italy ;and si thlaj mother waa torn from her four other chil dren and tha family waa parted forever. 61a happy young Scotch girls were ar rested In the Hartford Carpet corporation early last May aa bring In the country tn violation of the law which forbids the Im portation of contract labor. They had been working In their homo country In a mill which closed down. Soma on. It proved later to be an employment agent, sent thn to Connecticut. They were under an "Implied" contract, aa the law im's It. All their savings were consumed by the tickets, and when, after a p?doa of detention, they ware deported, the atate In which they reached Scotland was sad Indeed. A Madi son, Wis., firm Inserted an advertisement In a foreign paper early this last year offering $i,M per day for labor, and nearly 1.8W Innocent Immigrants sent by employ ment agent to answer the advertisement were trapped by the Ellis IMand and Long Wharf authorities and deported by tbe ahlpload. Many other contract !ab?rere were sent back at tha same time, and on one voyage the Neapolitan Prince carried 1000 men, women and children back to tvelr native land In sorrow. Other shir took parties of 800, 500 and 100. I was mixing In tha crowd of my fellow Immigrants about the Capltsnlna In Nap'ea one day Jupt before the ahlp railed, when I met a man who was running a branch of the underground system frr smuggling Im migrants Into th-9 United States. Through him I made the acquaintance of Mrs. Vln cenio Tortora of Mulberry street. New York, but then living In one of the village baok of Naples. She had been In New Tork for some time with her husband and had gone home to visit her parent, taking a child which had been born before she fin went to the United Htnte". During tha visit homa the child contracted In I'a worst form trachoma. th dreadfd contacl ous eye dlseace. and when the poor womin reached New Tork to rejoin her hrsbind the and her child were excluded and nt back. Again she tried to enter and failed, and when I met her she tvn arranging to pay HBO to be smuggled Into the cnu"try . by the gangs that do' that sort of thing. Six unneremnry voyage across the ocean with a sick child, all because of a faulty administrative system! The case cf Mrs. Ciarne FelserstMn and her 8-year-o'd twins, deported from Chi cago July 30 because they were found to be Illegally In tha country, and with all the federal Judges away on vacation, so thit the matter could not be tried out In the courts: the death of Mrs. Chrlrtlna S'.rfcsl while detained before deportation at DalM mpre, her husband and two children having been sent on to Texas: the story of Domen 4eo Gateotalansa apd Pomenlco Larrone, two trachomatous Neapolitans, who, a'tr disposing of all their property In Naples and riving un thflr employment, caT to the United State only to be debarred, and twice again to fall of entry, the last time coming aa pauper and stowaway, thMr troubles having completely wrecked them; the misfortunes of Samuel Kaplan, who with a wife and family of eight left Lodl for Rochester, N. T., after selling cut a mall buslre, but on arrival was debarred with the entire family because the rnothr and en child had spinal trouble the are a few alts of the great whole. Some of the Irenes that occur In tha "Inside" part of Ellis Island (which Is the name given all that portion of the aystem that Is for the detained or excluded) wou'd wring the heart of the hardest of men. There one can see son and daughter and Europe and the Atlantic ocean to spend their lsat .days with their own flesh and blood, only to find that they are so old and so poor that they are likely to become pub lic charge and must go back, at least to the community where they once had a home. Ferhap the case will be that of a ' lover and wweetheart who have been ?p rated for years while he waa In this coun try bulldlng-ap a home for her. Now that It Is ready, the girl follows him, only to be detained, torn from his arms and sent back across the seas because of jme physical fault, or some misrepresentation she haa made, thinking to get into the country the easier. Again, half of seme small village, coming on aome ticket agent' false rep resentations, will be found to be contract laborers, and will be returned, rjlnej. Such a crowd usually present a scene on sailing day that would defy reproduction In word. Latterly, the poor victim of our ytem often fall to reach their homea at all, es pecially If they come from some territory which Is being newly exploited by the Im migrant agents. One Immigrant wl I sent back to his native town can frighten loo neighbor away from the steamship ticket offices. Knowing this by bitter ex perience, the big agent who speculate In Immigrant traffic try to Induce the returned Immigrant to go elsewhere In the world rather than face the shame of failure at home. If th Immigrant ha money h usually goes to Australia, South Africa, South America or Mexico. If he and hi family, have been particularly unfortunate, and their case is likely to be talked abou through a large district, the agents will practically for the family Into embarka tion for Brazil or South Africa on tickets furnished by th agenta The latest case of note ha all those prin ciple of blunder In It that I have (ought to point out In this article. It Is that of the Terra family, the father of whloh llvrg In the residence .section 'of Coney IsJsn J. He came here twenty years ago, became an Ice dealer, prospered greatly and hai bei a naturalised eltlxen for om time. Ills habit waa to return frequently to Italy to visit his family, but on May 29 he brought them over on the German!, hav ing fitted up a beautiful home for them. The wife and four children arrived safely, but two of th daughter were found to have trachoma and have been ordered de ported, under a dtxlslon by Justlo La combe that the children of a naturalised . parent born out cf the Jurisdiction of the United State before the naturalization of the parent are aliens. After what I have related above In bare skeleton fact, without picturing th phy sical and mental horrors of the long voy ages In the eteerage, the life In the deten tion pen and the miserable state of affair after the deportations, I do not believe that I have failed of carrying conviction a to the character and enormity of th wrongs done the deported Immigrant. To consider a remedy, the situation must analysed. The basic principle Is that. If the alien had known that they were going to be debarred they would not have left home. The great mass learn It for the first time at the port of departure, and In n'ne teen cares out of twenty their (urprtpe amounts to bewilderment. Every agency that promote immigration conspires to keep them In the dark or to lead them to believe that they can evade the American laws. When they once leave home the die Is cast: they are committed. The conclusion I plain: Inform the alien of his admissibility or his Inadmissibility where the knowledge will do him the least harm that la. In hi home town. The only way correctly to Inform him lJ to examine and pas him there. Fnrtunatelv. thl 1 the system which must eventually super sede the old one for the protection of th United States without rerd to the treat ment of the Immigrant. The gigantic an nual crime of ruining ten of thousands happy families ntand to our everlatln discredit, and should . form th prendre' reason for urartnc th . speedy Installation VV SS VV KSHil i F tea I nan T is difficult, if not impossible to explain all nbout our extensive Prwiir nlnn in n newsnnner announcement. 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Our Manager is ready to talk with you now tomorrow. to Explain Our A frr 2x TO) Credit ersoo S2 I I w 5C Let Hartman'feather your nest, j ' 2 New Sreclsl txtnlon) Tab'e Eaactly aa shown. Made of olld oak, ha five heavy carved les;s. securely bolted .o top, elegantly finiKlied end extra well made In every particular His Uartman" new eay running slides. Bargain special at Hari man'a. . Everything Guaranteed No Mailer Bow Low the Price. randchlldrn clustered ahout an o'd pilr f ,n dequate ytem of foreign Inspec who have traveled across the contlmnt of tlon. Gossip About Noted People IS President Roosevelt. N hi Impressions of America Rev. Charles Warner, author of "Th Simple Life," has this to say of rtarJ President Roosevelt: "My lm- rT-v.yj presslon of Mr. Roosevelt was th same first and last, whether I looked upon him with my own eye or felt his In fluence abroad tn his country. The peopl love their president. There Is not a royal house, even amonf the oldest and those most worthy of the affection of their sub jects which receives so deep and general sympathy as do the youns president of th Vnlted States and his family. He is re spected by all ages and all classes; you might think that he waa tbe chief friend of every household. HI word ha aa un precedented authority throughout the coun try, nor I this the effect of a showy and superficial popularity, but of a calm and legitimate ascendency. In the last presi dential campaign every effort made against him turned to the hurt of his enemies, and since his triumphant election the justice of hi judgment and his freedom from all political rancor have won even his oppo nents. Everybody know that he stands for th best of America, that he has some thing better than a political policy, that h has an Ideal and that Ills Ideal conform to th noblest traditions of tha republic aa well as to Its most weighty future Inter est. ' Th country's destinies are In good bands." primary school In Oswego. For two weeks ha trudged to school ha If-an hour before time, and th report of his progress wero glowing. But his parents noted that h grew discontented. One day he knocked at the door of his father's study, marched straight to th desk and spread out before hi astonished father a aheet of paper, on whloh was written In a childish hand: "Charles E. Hughes' plan of study." Dr. Hughes looked from the paper to the ' child In wonder. j "What does It mean, my boyT" h as';ed. ' "Papa," explained th 4-year-old author of a system. "I don't Ilk It at school. Teacher goes over the same thing aga'n and again and I get tired. -1 could study at horn and get my lesson all done In th morning." The father looked back at the paper. There were neatly written the dayj of the week; opposite them the subjecti and hours of Ptudy. He accepted th prop osition, and for th next six years the boy . studied at home. vi"'"! 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Aa th train drew Into New Haven, wher th rtatlcn was, aa usual, bustling with busy men go ing to and from th trains pursuing their customary avocations, he smiled and In a reflective sort of way said; "Now look t thon men out there. They are th pre vailing American type. Study them Indi vidually and you will notice how generally alike they are and all apparently of about th earn standard of physical strenff'h and, a far as we can Judge by their coun tenance, of Intellectuality. Now, you know, a senator Is regard as In a way a man apart and above th ordinary run of elttiens, but I honestly bellev that, tak ing us a a body, w would not rank Metier than th average of those fellow cltisen of our out there. These mn ar looking out for their own private bulres Interests and we for th Interests cf th public. 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The senator saw an animal fall heavily and called: "We've got him this time. Bill." "We!" sntered th guide. "There's no 'we' about It. I killed htm plain enough." Quickly making their way to wher their quarry lay, they found a fin specimen of Jersey calf. "We'n killed somebody calf." yelled the guide. Sen ator Spooner gv him a withering luu and said: "William, you should be more particular in your choice of pronouns, 'Ws' Isn't adapted to this particular In stance." Th Kaiser aad th PJba. The emperor of Gernieny Is a great uaer of the 'phone. A peculiar etiquette must be observed tn 'Germany In talking to hint over the wire. In the first place, th em peror never Five bis name) After calling a man up he begin with the imperial phrase, "I command that," etc., which, as all the official know, mean the kaiser la talking. When the emperor la through with hi conversation be doesn't say "loud by," or 'That all." He hang up ' Saw " celver and stalks away. Th result oi ;at custom la that th official at the other end of th wire, no matter how lofty he may be, lias to stand with tha receiver to hla ear for five or six minutes longer, not sure whether the emperor has finished or whether he la thinking up something fur ther to aay. cablegrams In their hands, to Inqulr this day It keeps turning up. now and Into my condition. There wa nothing th then. In the newspapers when peopl hava matter with me, and each In his turn was occasion to discount exaggerations. The next man waa alao an Irishman. WtM't Wank Maeh Alive. Nine year ago, whan w wtr living In Tedworth quar. London, relate Mark Taaln In hla autobiography, a report was cabled to the American Journals that I waa dying. I waa not the one. It was another Clemens, a cousin of mine D.. J. Koss Clemen, now of Bt. Louis. Th London representatives of the American paper ban to flock In, .with American astonished, and disappointed, t find me reading and smoking in my study nd worth next to nothing as a text for trana Atlantie news. On of these men was a gentle and kindly and grave and sympa thetic Irishman, who hid hla sorrow th beat h could and tried to look glad, and told m that hi paper, th Evening Sun, had cabled him that It wa reported In New York that ! was dead. What should he cable In reply? I said: "Say ths report la groas'.y exaggerated." He never smiled, but went solemnly away and sent th cable in those words. Th remark hit th world pleasantly, and ta He had his New York cablegram In hi hand from tbe Nlew York World-and h was so vldmtly trying to get around that table, with Invented softnet and pal liations that my curiosity wa aroused and I wanted to see what It did really say. Bo when occasion offered I slipped It out of hi band. It said; "If Mark Twain dying send 600 words. If dead send 1.0CO." flow that old letter of mine sold recently for $U. When I am da4 It wUl b wort ' '