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FORTUNES IN
BRONX DIRT
LIKE FAMOUS KANSAS BOOMS.
1 THAT SOW OX IX UPPER NEW
’OKK CITY.
opcnine of the Subway Ha* Sent
property Sky High In tlie Boron* Ii
of Bronx —Policeman Qnlt Hi*
Heat nn<l Took a Flier Tlia.t Land
ed Him |2n.00O —Honaea and Flnta
(Image Hands So Often That Ten
ant* Can’t Keep Track of Their
Landlord* —Great Valre of Wall
■street Property.
New York, Dec. 17. —One of the most
remarkable of the many remarkable
developments in metropolitan life since
the opening of the Subway has been
the phenomenal boom in real estate in
that section, of the city known to all
New Yorkers as the Borough of the
Bronx.
It can justly be compared with noth
ing less than the wildest days in the
history of the famous boom towns of
Kansas a decade or so ago.
While real estate values in this vast
and largely unimproved portion of the
greater city had steadily increased
from the announcement of the begin
ning of work on the great ditch that
has finally linked this outlying dis
trict with the heart of the city and
given it easy and quick access there
to, the last four weeks have seen them
Jump skyward beyond the fondest
dreams of the most optimistic specu
lators.
It is no rash statement to say that
hundreds of persons have either made
or laid the foundation for comfortable
fortunes within this period, either by
exercising keen judgment or in blind
ingly following the crowd. Each day
has its several stories—true at that—
of this or that man who was poor, or
only well-to-do in the morning, find
ing himself a moneyed man 'at night
fall.
A Policeman’* Flier.
I,ess than three weeks since a cer
tain policeman, who has pounded the
Bronx pavements for half a dozen
years, decided to take a flier in real
estate and, drawing all his savings
from the bank —$I,ooo —lnvested It in
a piece of property within a short walk
ing distance of one of the Subway
stations. Two days later he was ap
proached by the representative of a
syndicate of prominent capitalists and
offered $3,0Q0 more than he had paid
for the plot. He took it and imme
diately put his $4,000 down as part pay
ment on another lot which he had had
his eye on for some time, and which
the owner of a day was glad to sell at
a profit of a few thousands to him
self.
The purchase stood in the name of
the blue coat speculator scarcely long
enough for the deed to be made out
and filed. Within a few hours his
broker had a sale for it which would
double his client’s capital. He hunted
up the blue coat on his beat ‘and told
him the facts.
“Bring the papers here when they’re
ready, and I’ll sign,” was the reply.
“Then take the money and buy me
this property,” handing the broker a
memorandum.
The policeman kept up an active
speculation until a day or so ago;
then he announced that he would leave
the field open to others.
“I’m not greedy,” he said. "Twenty
five thousand clear cash from SI,OOO
as a starter will keep me nicely,
thank you, for a year or two, in
connection with my wages as po
liceman.”
This man has had plenty of com
pany while making his fortune. In
the mad scramble both improved and
unimproved properties have chang
ed hands so rapidly that real es
tate dealers and the municipal of
ficials whose duty It is to record
sales have been well nigh beside
themselves in keeping posted on the
owners.
Can’t Keep Track of Oxvnera.
Not only this. Dwellers in houses
and flats, which are becoming numer
ous in this hitherto flatless section, are
frequently in a predicament as to
whom to pay their rents. Only the
other day a complaint came from a
half dozen big flats to the effect that
each had changed hands so many
times within the week that the gas
company could not be certain of the
owner, and so had turned off the sup
ply and left the tenants in utter dark
ness and without means to cook meals.
Millions of dollars’ worth of prop
erty has been shuttled about in this
fashion, and millions have undoubted
ly been made out of it. How much
longer the speculative frenzy will con
tinue is problematical, but at present
writing it seems to ,be on the increase
instead of waning. This is probably
due to the fact that real estate experts
generally hold that the full values of
Bronx property have not yet been
reached, in spite of the phenomenal
jumps within the last month. And
when the frenzy is over they confi
dently express the opinion that values
will not drop, because of the presence
A Big Lot
of Little Ones
Are to be made happy—because
The Wheels
Are Selected
—and—
Put Aside for
Santa Claus.
We have more
Yales and
Columbias
for Children. Misses and Youths,
and they are all bright and at
tractive. all this year’s make —
every one of them.
W'e make n special feature of
providing for
The Children at Christmas
They ull want wheels
From Bryson,
Beennee It's where
The Big Folks
Buy Things on Wheels.
I Hint lie fooled—
-1905 Yales
and Columbias
are only at Bryson's. Ollier
beds are not so good and the
Mills ones don't wain ilic other
kind anyway. Be good to the
■ hitilien. Buy tliem litcieles at
BRYSON'S
S| HIM, NI BI IT.
Bedridden 10 Months
with Kidney Disease
. . Mr. C. B. Rigliter. of Wilmington,
Del., 70 Years of Age. Given l'p to
I)le of Kidney Trouble, Says lie
Was Completely Cured by
WARNER’S SAFE CURE.
“I am now 70 years old and in per
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owe to your grand medicine, and I
want to tell you about my case.
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of kidney disease. He treated me seven
months but I kept getting worse until
I took to my bed. I was bedridden for
about ten months, and was reduced to
a mere skeleton. I was advised to
prepare for death at any minute.
"Friends told me Safe Cure had
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I stopped the doctor's medicines and
took nothing but Safe Cure. I began
to improve within a few days, and
nine bottles restored me to perfect
health and strength, and I have not
had a touch of kidney trouble since.”
Chas. B. Righter.
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of the wonder-working: Subway in
what, until its completion, was a more
or less inaccessible portion of the
northernmost borough of the greater
city.
Growth of Property Value*.
Property values on the island of
Manhattan are also showing an as
tonishing though normal tendency to
increase with every passing day. This
is true even of the most highly im
proved sections of the city. Take the
Wall street, or financial district, for
example. One block there is valued
at nearly $14,000,000 on the city’s
books of last year; and New York
taxes are levied on full property
valuations. To-day the block could
not be bought for five millions more
than the taxable value. An adjacent
block is assessed at practically the
market value of the one already re
ferred to; it could not be purchased
for twenty-seven millions, in round
figures.
It is to be doubted whether foot for
foot there is any more costly real es
tate in the world than in that cramped
section of the city out over which the
bellows of the •’bulls” and the an
swering grunts of the “bears” float
daily from the "animals’ ” white mar
ble palace on Broad street, just be
low Wall.
All is this 1s on the authority of one
of the leading dealers In real estate in
lower New York—a man who carries
on the big majority of transactions in
this section. Naturally, whenever he
does business he talks in millions. It
could scarcely he otherwise when the
commodity which in the neighborhood
of twenty millions In good yellow gold
an acre. Duane.
SENATOR WHOTRIED TO
DODGE CUSTOMS DUTY.
One Inspector Passed Him But
Another Opened His Trunk.
New York, Dec. 17.—Many years of
observation at the piers of the great
trans-Atlintic lines have convinced me
Chat, though there are no doubt many
thousand Americans patriotic enough to
spill their blood for their country, there
is one thing at which all patriots balk,
and balk hard; that thing is the pay
ment of customs duties on articles they
have bought abroad.
A big German liner arrived recently
with one of our more famous United
States senators aboard. When digni
taries like him arrive, It is customary
to take their word in regard to duti
able baggage, instead of examining It.
The senator, in reply to the question,
said that he had nothing at all that
was dutiable, having brought in only
the slop worth of purely personal pur
chases to which all incoming passen
gers are entitled.
“All right, sir,” said the customs
officer in charge of the pier. “We will
pass your baggage right through, and
you need not wait a minute.” So the
senator drove away to a hotel.
Alas'. By mistake another revenue
officer opened his baggage for the
regular examination after he had gone
—and when the examination was com
pleted it was found that the duties
which he owed to his Uncle Sam
amounted to nearlv SSOO. A special
messenger was dispatched to his hotel
with an apologetic message and he
sent back SSOO and never said a word.
The otlher day a well known woman
and her two daughters arrived on a
British liner. They declared goods on
which the duty amounted to S3OO, and
the customs officers treated them with
the respect due to unexpected veracity.
When- they started to open the bag
gage, however, the lady dowager of
the family nearly burst with sudden
emotion, and the two daughters wept,
because of the “Impertinent prying
into a lady's wardrobe.” The lady's
wardrobe turned out to be so many
French dresses and so much lace and
jewelry that the three arrivals had to
leave the baggage in “hock” with
Uncle Sam till they could reach their
father and husband, because they
didn’t have money enough to pay t>he
duties. As they explained Ingenuously,
they had had only *40(1 left and they
knew that they would want SIOO for
expenses, so they had done the gen
erous thing from their point of view
by declaring enough dutiable goods to
make S3OO duty. Later In the day
an Indignant husband and father had
the sad pleasure of calling at the
Custom House with a nice bundle
containing $1,500. which was the
amount of the additional duty.
Duane.
—At Newport.—Harry Fehr; I have
an Idea, donetierknow! Let us give a
dtnnah at which all the guests appear
as nbliphls. You, Miss Van Kox, must
m< *m a bird of paradise, and you, De
.quelle, Hi a lion, you know.
Ml m Van Bog; Fine. Harry! And
you and Cholly Haplelgh would not
need to mask.
Harry K*hr Aw-ei-whv - '
Miss Van Hos Why, <*hMy could
appear aa a monkey, ond you could
make an aas of youi self, as usual !—
Cleveland I a- ad or
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER IS. 1904.
COMING SOUTH
TO FIND HOMES
EXCURSIONS ON RAILWAYS.
FARMERS FROM THE MIDDLE
, WEST SEEK XEW COUNTRY.
Two Tneaday* of Each Month Until
April Paaaengrr Men Will Conduct
I arae Pnrtle* of Home-aeekera to
Southeaat—Tired of Bleak Prairie*
Many Are lnveMiKntlnar Till* Ue-
Rion for Better Condition*—-lainii-
Rration Will Be Heavy This Year.
By William M. Crockett.
Home-seeking in the Southeast is
not anew suggestion, but it has never
received the serious consideration it
merits from the farmers of the Middle
West. Now, however, railway pas
senger officials assert, the subject is
coming into popularity.
Though a very early settled portion
of the Union the Southeast, by that
meaning the states of Georgia, South
Carolina, Alabama and Florida, partic
ularly, is still virgin territory for the
farmer who tills the soil intensively,
rather than extensively.
The fact that a profit exists In small
areas intelligently planted and har
vested has but recently dawned upon
the agriculturists of the great Middle
West. Heretofore, they could only see
a reward for their labors in vast
tracts hastily tilled a few months of
the year. Migration of the farming
class has been altogether toward the
great Northwest, with its vast stretches
of prairie sod and its inhospitable cli
mate.
Pleasure* of (l*e Soutli.
The pleasures of farming three
months of the year and hibernating
the remaining nine in some dug-out
underneath great banks of snow, have,
however, lost their charm to many.
There are reading up on the Southeast
as a home and are awakening to the
fact that people down here live twelve
months in the year and enjoy every
minute of the time.
Passenger men say the home-seek
ing migration follows the tide of
Christmas travel. It is their opinion
the migration will attain greater mag
nitude this year than last.
Special rates have been arranged this
year similar to those which prevailed
for past seasons. One first-class fare,
plus $2, is the rate, with a few ex
ceptions which covered a limited terri
tory. This rate is for points south of
the Potomac and Ohio rivers, east of
the Mississippi river and gateways be
yond. The rate prevails for the months
from December to April, inclusive.
Two d'ays in each month, the first and
third Tuesdays, are the dates the ex
cursions run. The time limit of the
tickets is twenty-one days from date of
sale.
Will Come After Christmas.
The excursion rates have been in ef
fect only a short while flow, and little
idea can be gained of the probable ex
tent of the number taking advantage
of the rate this season. It is after
Christmas that the travel of this char
acter is expected to assume its great
est proportions. This class of travel
is distinct from the winter tourist class,
the time limit precluding those who
desire to spend the winter South from
taking advantage of it. Twenty-one
days is, however, sufficient time for
one to gain a good idea of the coun
try, its state of development, probable
chance of profitable Investment and of
any particular community in view.
The Chamber of Commerce has many
requests from Northern farmers de
siring farms of various sizes South.
These requests come in and are not
chronicled like the inquiries of manu
facturing enterprises, but they, too,
have their degree of importance. The
country-side has its part to play in
the permanent growth of any city.
Many of the requests received are for
small tracts. Gardening spots near
large cities in the South command good
prices and return a good per cent, on
capital and labor necessary for their
production. As Savannah grows mar
ket products will continue in good de
mand. But there is also much land
adjacent to Savannah and in the
Southeast that awaits the coming of
the intensive farmer. About Savannah
especially are many splendid oppor
tunities for the Middle West farmer
who seeks to better his condition. A
good market awaits the products many
could produce.
Pn**riißer Official* Active.
The passenger officials are alive to
the interest of their roads and know
that the encouragement being offered
settlers is not falling on barren ground.
Their persistent campaign in the ad
vertisement of the advantages of this
fertile section of the nation will pro
duce results of.a character warranting
their efforts. Once the country’s agri
cultural resources are being worked to
their fullest, the railways will be the
beneficiaries in abundant measure.
Savannah will receive her full quota
of the home-seekers from the North.
Georgia, too, will benefit.
These visitors will find many things
about the South they never knew be
fore. They will find Georgia raising
more corn than in the past, thus keep
ing at home wealth otherwise diverted
to the North. They will find cities
Ihrilled with the spirit of progress.
They wilt find as much prosperity
South as they left in the North. And
last but not least, they find the South
so much to their liking they will re
main, or return here at their earliest
opportunity.
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THE DANGER TO THE SOUTH
FROM NEGRO DOMINATION
Conditions in the British West Indies a Warning
to Be Heeded.
By MAJ. JAMES W. COOPER.
Editor Morning News: The let
ter of Senator Bacon and the com
ments thereto by the editor of the
Morning News are well directed notes
of warning to the South of the proml
nen*e and danger of the Issue of negro
domination. I desire to add certain ev
idence which I obtained In traveling
through the West Indies, evidence
which I think has been hid by design
ing British and American, political,
self-styled philanthropists, from the
outside world.
Passing through the British pos
sessions of islands of the An
tilles and Bahamas, searching for
certain gums, negro ethnology loomed
before me in a more decided phase
than I had viewed it before. These
negroes have been freed seventy-three
years. They had all the educational
advantages that could be given them.
Yet they are passing back to the con
dition of savages. Of the children born
in the island where I could have access
to the census 60 or 65 per cent, were
illegitimate; four black men were
hanged in the city of Port of Spain,
Island of Trinidad, iri the six months
of 1903 I remained there, an average
of eight per year, being, according to
citizens there, a normal average.
The Prevalence of Crime.
This city is one-half the size
of Savannah, and Trinidad Is
land is about the size of
Chatham county. Cries of men and
women fighting were constantly heard
when I was there and that of mur
dqr was very frequent of nights. All
other crimes were proportionately
numerous. The usual one. the black
est of all, was so frequent against
white and creole women that one coal
black negro often had many concu
bines of these. Where so many of
these white and creole women came
from, without their men, was
a mystery I could not fully
selve, but suppose they came
from South America. Voodoolsm,
gnomes, obi and demons are much
believed In and spoken of.
The wild Christmas orgies of the peo
ple are most disgusting. Yells of negro
wenches In shops Sunday morning,
struggling to be waited on first, could
be heard a block away. The indus
trious Hast India coolie chiefly work
ed the soil. Great poverty reigned, a'-
though they only had to plant .cry
crudely and an abundant harvest re
sulted. The poor and middle English
class and other poor white men have
disappeared. The offsprings of the dis
gusting alliances named above become
black negroes In two or three genera
tions. There are a number of white
merchants, mostly wealthy, with their
famtiiea, excellent people, pure white,
very, very exclualve, they being ale,at
l-200ths of the population.
Wiling of |be liners.
The Island of HI. Vincent was
similar to Trinidad, except the
negro men had u supply of
(Creole,) t'arlb women I saw one, a
very pretty, very while, I'reoie girt,
with a negro baby In her arms Hhe
told me that her father Had been killad
at the eruption of Huff isle volcano,
from which she tied si the age of II
yeafa, slid took refuge In Kingston,
among negroes, there being no other
25 Bro*(fctoa Street. W.
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place provided, with the deplorable re
sult. 1 saw two other Creole women,
with families of negro children, all
concubines of black negroes. As
the female children of these co
habitations are seized mostly by black
negroes for concubines, the population
of all the British Islands are rapidly
becoming black.
Cat Island, formerly San Sal
vador, where the first white man
landed In the yew World, and
once contained a large population of
white Spanlurds, I found only six white
men, one officer, two priests, one sup
erintendent of an estate, and two
stranded seamen. There were about
6,000 negroes, crowded 100 to the square
mile, the Island being sixty miles long
by an average of one mile wide. Other
Islands of the Bahamas were about the
same. A great archipelago, lying at
our doors, transformed In so short a
time into a negro barbarism, as dark
as In the interior of Africa! This crime
against nature and civilization Is not
going to be, nor will be done, but has
been done, barring the few whites and
a few exceptional negroes, and ac
complished by the British government
by the sfame methods as are being
used by our government here, by the
appointment of negro postmasters, let
ter carriers, custom house officers, po
licemen and soldiers; continuous pres
sure in forcing negro political and so
cial equality on the whites.
Kmlarntliig to This Country.
These overcrowded Islands are
now pouring their black hordes
into Porto Rico, Santa Domin
go, the isthmus and into our
Southern states. Several lines of
schooners ply between Nassau and Key
West, and with the aid of negro cus
tom house officers, dump them there.
All I met were persistent In demand
ing equality and other privileges.
Shall the white man of the South,
having destroyed the Indian, with the
excuse that the end Justified the means,
to erect the greatest civilization known
to man, calmly sit down and allow the
lowest of the human race to overthrow
the mighty progress? To avert this
dire calamity, the South must stand
united, solid, as in the past. Hhe
must become aggressive. Send the
worst negroes North, replace them with
white laborers and Immigrants. Dur
ing great, strikes in the North, ex
change them for strikers. Get the laws
for petty stealing of small articles, an
imals, fowls, etc., be very rigorous,
then mitigate by allowing the crimi
nals their freedom, provided they cross
to the North s‘de of the Ohio river.
Use the moneys paid out for negro
schools to bring In white immigrants.
It is and has been Impossible to vio
lently violate the laws of nature, with
out the Inevitable retribution.
The malign design of certain men in
the North, to force social arid political
equality, or rule of th* black man
upon the white man of the Mouth, has
undoubtedly been attempted before,
moved by the same feeling of nation
against nation, In Northern Africa and
adjacent countries. Hut the negro,
now being pressed hack Into the jun
gle#. without g remaining trace of him
left In these countries, points to the
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inevitable result. He was exterminat
ed. The driving of negroes from towns
of the North and rumblings over the
entire country, should demonstrate to
the North the volcano upon which
they stand and to where they lead the
negro.
Differs With Mr. Fleming.
Just as I was closing this article I
read the Interview of ex-Congressinan
W. H. Fleming. As we are at issue on
many points, I make this addendum
to meet his hypothetical controver
sion. Apropos to the eplgrammatlcal
dictum that there are but "three pos
sible solutions of our race problem,
deportation, annihilation and assimila
tion,” the above evidence produced in
this article shows that either the ne
gro annihilates the white man or the
white man annihilates the negro. As
for the physical facts, backed by our
religion, our civilization, ourselves, for
bid annihilation. Can or do these bar
the way of greed, lust, passion and
malignancy, agencies now at work
on this problem?
Another epigram was formulat
ed by a great Northern gen
eral of this very age: "A good In
dian Is a deed Indian,” and all In
dians of the Northwest, Arizona, New
Mexico and other parts of the West
have been annihilated for greed and to
extend our civilization. Greed, malice
and lust have about destroyed the
white race In British West Indies. An
unthinking North feeds fuel to the In
solent passions of the negro and pas
sions born of fear of the whites of
the South. Mr. Fleming, making use
of the word "demagogues,” Is traduc
ing the largest part of the Southern
people. Their united stand for their
civilization for more than forty years
has been the South's salvation, and Is
the most glorious, for the most glori
ous cause, recorded in history.
Driving the uru Xorth .
Mr. Fleming's argument that the negro
population is not increasing In propor
tion to the whites Is due to this united
action, driving the negro North. This
hag accomplished another purpose,
that of driving deep home a bolt of
quivering fear throughout the North
of negro equality there. And if wo
still remain united and vigorously
press this vantage as outlined above
and by other methods, it will only be a
matter of a short time when the (bet
ter people of the North will demand
the repeal of those obnoxious, malig
nant amendments and the great cause
of the South and civilization will tri
umph. Then a humane and dispassion
ate disposition of the negro for his
welfare and safety can be made.
He Is not, nor will be safe until
Ihls Is done. Those amendments are
his worst foes. The solid South with
her beckoning hund of warning, Is
the negro's best friend. We are not
negro haters; we wish him well, but,
we must protect our splendid race In'
Its great progress. Nature hus made
the negro black, and Inferior In In
telligence. The fanatics of the North
have taken advantage of this to In
jure us. Although weaker, we must
strike back. The uplifted talons of
the crippled eagle Is more potent, more
dreaded and respected than the croak
ing raven In the tree. Place the ne
gro as a neighbor of the Northern
man, where he can steal his fowls
and pigs, and demand equality of him,
It will teach him a lesson In the
Golden Rule.
—Mr, Trueklove—“You have a beau- !
tlful voice. Miss Piper; I wish I could
hear you sing every day.” Mias Piper—
“ Well—really-—you’ll have to speak In
mama—er- this is so sudden."—Wash
ington Idle.
Ijullcs- Black, Bert. Blur, PIP.
and Brown ~..51.00
Pure Wool, Fur Trimmed, Blnek
..Red, Brown or Gray $1.50
wKm 1 x
Wool, Felt, Fur Trimmed. Black
or ltd ,1.00
Best. Blnek Felt $1.25
Black Felt SI.OO
GEORGIA COINS
OF GREAT VALUE
$5 GOLD PIECES WORTH 5375.
FOUR ARK WOW RKI.IEVKD TO 810
Iff KXISTF.XCE.
Were Coined By the State of
Georgia In IHSO—For Yearo It Hns
Bern Believed There Were Only
Three of Them left But a Brook
lyn Coin Collector Has Found
Whst He Believes to no the
Fourth—The Discovery Through a
Salt Brought Against a London
Coin Dealer.
New York, Dec. 17.—Collectors of
rare coins will be interested In a suit
that Is about to be brought in this
country by a London coin dealer
against a New York dealer over one
of the rare gold $5 places that were
coined by the state of Georgia in 1830.
For years It has been the belief of col
lectors that there were only three of
the coins in existence.
One of them sold for $375 In New
York a few years ago. During the
present year another was bought In
London by an American collector. This
coin was shipped to New York, but
when the package reached Its destina
tion there was no coin in it. Complaint
was made to Collector of the Port
Stranahan.
In the meantime a Brooklyn col
lector came Into possession of one of
the coins. Happening to be In the
company of the New York man whose
coin was missing, he told of Its pos
session. The New York man Induced
him to let him examine it. It was
compared with a rubbing of the Lon
don coin and was apparently identi
fied. The Brooklyn man at once took
the coin back to the man from whom
ho had purchased it.
Collector Stranahan had an Investi
gation made and the Rrookly collector
declared that it was his belief that
there was a fourth coin In existence,
which he owns. This Is the decisityi
of the customs officials, who will take
no further cognizance of the matter.
SHOULD HAVE HIS LIFE
HISTORY WITH HIM.
Xny Commissioner Nurgent of For
eign Immigrant*.
Washington, Dec. 17.—“ Every Immi
grant should be compelled to bring
with him his life history officially cer
tified by the authorities of the place*
in which he has lived," said Frank
Sargent, commissioner general of Im
migration. “Our prisons, almshouses
and Insane asylums are now crowded
with foreigners who would have been
barred out had wo proper immigra
tion laws.
"A member of Congress who came
in to see me the other day told me
that our Immigration laws are jokes. I
am forced to agree with him.
“If an American goes abroad to re
side and even to vlelt he la compelled
to carry a paaaport that tells his Ufa
story. As our law is at present all
we requlro of an immigrant la his
oath to certain questions.
“If he has served time In a prison,
been ail Inmate of an almshouse, has
Insanity In his family or Is otherwise
object ions b|e to bur laws, do you think
he is going to led the truth? He will
It* a thousand limes to get In, and
when ones in It's pretty bard to get
him ssl.'
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