THE COURIER
How Undesirable Foreigners Get Into Canada
and then are Ran Across the American Bor
der Many of Then in Defiance of the Law
J. R. HAGGARD, M. D..
LINCOLN. NEB.
Office. 1100 O street Rooms 213. 213, 214.
Richards Block; Telephone 536.
Residence. 1310 G street: Telephone K964
SMUGGLING IMMIGRANTS
QUEBEC, November 29. (Special Cor
respondence.) The Immigration question
has become a burning one In Canada, as
well as In the United States. For years
there was 'no restriction placed upon the
entry of Immigrants Into Canada, and
the unscrupulous agents on the other
side of the water did not hesitate for a
moment to send over the scum of Eu
rope, who, nfter getting past the Cana
dian authorities without much trouble,
passed over to the United States by
what Is popularly known as the "under
ground route." Fourteen months ago
the United States government placed a
special commissioner In Montreal, from
which the smuggling of Immigrants was
carried on to a 'great extent. Deputies
were placed at points along the border
from Sault Ste. Marie east to St. John,
N. B.,and In ten months the commis
sioner and his staff have turned back
over two thousand immigrants who have
sought entrance to the United States.
The Canadian government. Impressed
with the number of Immigrants who
were being dumped In Canada after hav
ing been refused admission to the States,
passed a bill at the last session to ex
clude undesirable immigrants. That law,
however. Is practically a dead letter.
The Canadian Immigration authorities
say that, while the law provides for the
deportation of undesirable aliens, there
is no provision for the enforcement of
the law. Meantime the hordes of dis-
eased, dirty, pauperized Syrians, Ital
ians, Russian and Austrian Jews and
Armenians continue to pour into Que
bec. The great bulk of the worst cases
at least two-thirds. If not three-fourths
come by the Beaver Line boats of the
Elder-Dempster Company. The moment
an Elder-Dempster Beaver boat comes
Into the harbor the smell of condensed
dirt spreads through the lower portion
of the city, and the stench is almost
unendurable. So great did the nuisance
from this source become that the Elder
Dempster Company has secured patent
devices for deodorizing and purifying the
holds of their ships on the way over.
Every Beaver Line boat that comes In
brings hundreds of the outpourings of
continental Europe, and the Immigra
tion officers of both countries have a
hard time in disposing of them.
Patrick Doyle, the Canadian Immigra
tion officer at this port. Is regarded as
one of the kindest hearted of men, yet
even he sometimes loses patience with
the crowds that have to be disposed of.
They are generally so dirty after the
voyage that It Is dangerous to go near
them, while their presence Is revealed
at considerable distance by the odor.
This, of course, does not apply to all the
immigrants who come by the Elder
Dempster Line. They have most of the
undesirable ones, however, because, not
being members of the North Atlantic
conference, their rates are lower than
those of the other lines.
Of those Immigrants who are rejected
at the border of the United States prac
tically all come by the Elder-Dempster
boats. Their agents In England, and. In
deed, their representatives in all parts of
Europe, drum up passengers of all kinds.
So long as a passenger can walk, he or
she can secure a passage to the New
World by the Beaver Line. The com
pany has an agreement with the United
States government to deport, at the cost
of the company, any Immigrant who may
not be up to the standard exacted by
the United States government. To
avoid the consequences of the agreement,
the agents of the line take their meas
ures in Liverpool. The United States
government receives a manifest from
the officers of the steamers as they reach
the wharf here. That manifest Is sup
posed to contain the names of all who
are destined for the United States. An
other manifest Is handed to the Cana
dian authorities, giving the names of
those who are Intending to settle In
Canada.
The preparation of these manifests is
a matter of great moment In Liverpool.
The Intending American citizens arc
called together twenty-four hours before
the sailing of the boats. A doctor em
ployed by the agents ofhe Beaver Line
examines every one carefully and reports
to the agents on eath. The manifests are
made up In consequence of this report.
The sane and healthy ones who intend
to enter the United States are put down
on the American list, while the sufferers
from trachoma, favus and other nau
seating and repulsive diseases are put
down on the Canadian manifests. For
this reason it Is that few of those who
come over as through Immigrants are re
jected on examination at the port of
entry, while many are rejected at Mon
treal or the border towns.
Few of the Intending American settlers
remain here any length of time. The
distance of this city from the border
prevents them from so doing. They gen
erally carry through tickets for Ottawa,
Toronto, Welland, Sault Ste. Marie or
Montreal.
From those points, which are referred
to In the parlance of the smugglers and
agents as "border towns," they are rail
roaded one way or another Into the
United States. There is an arrangement
by which the steamship companies pay
the head tax of $1 on any Immigrant
who, after having remained In Canada
less than a year, decides to go into the
United States. The bona fide Immigrants
who come over generally apply at the
office of the Immigration inspector at
Montreal or at some other point near
the residence he has occupied In Canada.
There a certificate may be obtained to
allow the Intending American settler to
go through. From this source there has
been collected for many months more
than $300 every four weeks. That ap
plies only to those who apply to the In
spectors for certificates.
For years, however, these persons
have been obtaining unrestricted admis
sion to the United States. They simply
avoided the entry towns or went across
some quiet river at night and got driven
out of reach of a customs official. Now,
however, things are different. Robert
Watchorn, the special immigrant In
spector at Montreal, has men working
under his direction at Quebec, Sault Ste.
Marie, Montreal, "Windsor, Prescott and
all along the border. The results speak
for themselves. After taking some four
months to organize and get things into
working order, theyjiad six months in
which to work until the end of the fiscal
year. In that time they had stopped
more than two thousand, and in the four
months which have elapsed since that
time they have covered a great deal of
ground, and another year's work of the
kind will open the eyes of the Canadian
government to the peril with which this
country Is threatened In letting these
aliens remain here. The inspectors pre
vent the entrance of diseased and pau
perized immigrants into the United
States. Nine-tenths of their captures
are made In the night. The smugglers
who have undertaken to ship the would
be American citizens across the border
generally bring their victims to some out
of the way spot, where there Is no like
lihood of any officer being present.
Then at night a boat Is secured, and
the Immigrants are rowed across a river
or driven over the border for some dis
tance to reach a railway. Since the be
ginning of the present fiscal year ten
professional smugglers have been prose
cuted. Some have been convicted and
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ding of Miss Elsie Barrow Gordon to Morton Burr Steele. The bride-to-be
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is the daughter of a famous western millionaire horseman. The brlde-groom-elect
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