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| Frank P. Sargent. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, October 30, 1902.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
Disqualified Foreigners Come in Through Canada.
REPORT OF SPECIAL INSPECTOR.
Efficient Work of Immigration Officials at United States Ports Causes Steamship Agents to Recommend Canadian Route—All Routes Should Be Equally Guarded.
Washington, Oct. 30.—Commissioner General Sargent of the immigration bureau has made public a report from Robert Watchorn, special immigrant inspector, dated Paris, France, Aug 22, 1902, on the immigration to the United States by way of Canada.
Mr. Watchorn says that Europeans who obviously are ineligible to enter the United States for several years have been directed by designing agents to Canadian ports with a view to effecting a surreptitious entrance into the United States across the international boundary.
Intending immigrants who by reason of some disqualification are rejected by the lines running to United States ports are turned over to lines running to Canada and with few exceptions they are accepted without question. Thousands every year thus find their way to Canada and thence to the United States.
Mr. Watchorn says: "Every steamship agent alludes to the fact that the United States immigration laws are now being strictly enforced there and in consequence the Canadian route is earnestly recommended as one 'where any one is accepted who is capable of walking off the ship', a statement which is invariably coupled with a gratuitous lesson in North American geography designed to impress on the immigrant's mind the cheering information that Montreal is a 'border city' from which a walk across the border is a very easy matter, unattended by any inconvenience whatever, there being no inspection of immigrants at said border.
"The efficient work of the immigration officials at New York and other ports of the United States not only tends to make a farce of the commendable scrutiny exercised at the Belgian, Holland and German ports, but serves to stimulate the work of the unprincipled and mercenary list of European steamship passenger agents who regularly send to Canada not only those whose admission to a United States port is open to doubt or those whose admission is known to be impossible, but also those who have been actually denied admission at a United States port and who have been duly deported therefrom according to law.
"So important a matter has this shady immigration become in certain Italian and Swiss towns that, scores of agencies exist where a normal traffic would scarcely justify the maintenance of a single agency."
In conclusion the report urges that all roads into the United States be made equally straight and narrow.
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| Theodore Roosevelt. |
DUTIES OF PRESIDENT.
An Unpublished Article by President Roosevelt.
WRITTEN OVER TWO YEARS AGO
While He Was Governor of New York and Before He Was Nominated For Vice President—His High Estimate of the Office—Senatorial and Cabinet Advisers.
Boston, Oct. 20.—In an article written for the Youth's Companion, which will be published next week, Theodore Roosevelt gives his ideas of the duties and responsibilities of the president of the United States.
President Roosevelt wrote the article in 1900 while he was governor of New York and previous to the Republican national convention which nominated him for vice president. In it the president says: "The president of the United States occupies a position of peculiar importance. In the whole world there is no other ruler, certainly no other ruler under free constitutions, whose power compares with his. Of course, there is the enormous personal factor of the incumbent to be considered entirely apart from the power of the office itself. This is merely another way of stating that in any office the personal question is always of vital consequence.
"The senators are the constitutional advisers of the president. The secretaries who form the cabinet advise him on matters of general policy when he so desires it. With the senate the advice and consultation are obligatory under the constitution. The senate has no right to dictate to the president who shall be appointed, but they have an entire right to say who shall not be appointed, for under the constitution this has been made their duty.
"Although many men must share with the president the responsibility there is upon him always a heavy burden of responsibility. It is easy enough to give a bad administration, but to give a good administration demands the most anxious thought, no less than very unusual powers of mind.
"There is every reason why the president should be held to a sharp accountability alike for what he does and what he leaves undone. But we injure ourselves and the nation if we fail to treat with proper respect the man who in the highest office in our land is striving to do his duty. We have had presidents who have acted weakly or unwisely in particular crises. But we have never had one concerning whose personal integrity there was so much as a shadow of suspicion. Appointment and policies which are normally routine and unimportant may suddenly become of absolutely vital consequence. The war department was utterly neglected for over 30 years after the civil war. Neither the regular officer nor the regular soldier takes any part in politics as a rule, so that the demagogue and bread and butter politician have no fear of his vote; and to both of them, and also to the cheap sensational newspaper, the army offers a favorite subject for attack.
"So it often happens that some amiable people really get a little afraid of the army, and have some idea that it may be used some time or other against our liberties.
"The army never has been and I am sure it never will be or can be a menace to [xxx] save America's foes, or augment a source of pride to every good and farsighted American.
"When an emergency like that caused by the Spanish war arises, the secretary of war becomes the most important officer in the cabinet.
"Altogether, there are few harder tasks than that of filling well and ably the office of president of the United States. But if the man at the close of his term is able to feel that he has done his duty well, he has the satisfaction of feeling that he has performed one of the great world tasks and that the mere performance is in itself the greatest of all possible rewards."
COMMISSIONERS AT WORK.
Begun their Tour of Inspection to see how Men Work.
Scranton, Pa., Oct. 30 —The Arbitration commission appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate the conditions in the anthracite region and report a working agreement which will tend to prevent a recurrence of strikes began its work this morning.
The members of the commission arrived here late last night. They came over the Jersey Central R. R. Upon their arrival, here they were taken to the Hotel Jermyn, where their headquarters will be located while in this city. All the members of the board and the two recorders are here.
At 10 o'clock the commission began its tour of the region. The party left the hotel and went to the Delaware & Hudson depot, where a special train of three cars was waiting to take them up the valley as far as Forest City.
The commission will first visit the mines of the Erie company. They will go down into the mines and see just exactly how the men work. They will be accompanied in to the mines by a superintendent or fire boss, as a precaution against accident.
The commissioners will return to this city this evening.
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| Nathan Lewis Miller. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Vote the Straight Ticket.
Next in importance to the fact that every Republican should be on hand early on Tuesday to cast his ballot is the desirability of voting a straight ticket. A single cross with a black lead pencil in the circle under the Republican emblem of the eagle will do the business. There is not a name on the ticket that any Republican need cut or should cut. The state is proud of the record of Governor Odell in the executive chair, and a cross under the Republican emblem will help to continue him in that office. His associates upon the ticket are men eminently well qualified to till the positions for which they have been nominated.
Cortland county, of course, is especially interested in the candidacy of its own representative, Hon. Nathan L. Miller, for the comptrollership, and there is reason to believe that a specially large vote will be rolled up for him and that he will not count his supporters in the election from the ranks of his own party alone, but that many personal friends from other parties will join in the effort to do honor to the county and its representative.
The congressional nominee, Hon. John W. Dwight, has proved himself an active worker in the party in other lines of service and will no doubt guard well the interests of his district if sent to Washington.
Hon. George E. Green has been tried as state senator and proved worthy and efficient, and it is well understood that he will be returned to the position he now occupies by a gratifying plurality.
There is no doubt of the re-election of Judge Walter Lloyd Smith as supreme court justice since he is the only nominee of all the parties. So acceptable has he proved to every one and so removed in this office from politics that all recognizing his high ability as a jurist bade him continue on the bench in the same position for another term of fourteen years.
''SHAY'S REBELLION."
Grave of the Leader Found in Country Burial Ground.
The grave of Daniel Shays, leader of "Shays' Rebellion," has recently been discovered in a country burial ground near Geneseo, this state, and steps will be taken to mark it with a suitable monument. General Shays, who was a native of Massachusetts, and who served in the Revolutionary war, led a rebellion of about 2,000 Massachusetts farmers against the high taxes resulting from war, which amounted to more than $200 a head. Many farmers, unable to pay, were arrested and put in jail. On the trial day Shays' forces surrounded the courthouses in Worcester and Springfield and liberated the debtors. They were subdued by a strong military force, and Shays, who fled to Vermont, was captured and sentenced to death. Two years later he was pardoned, received a pension for his services in the Revolution, was married and moved to Sparta, Livingston county, where he died in 1825.
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| Judge Rowland Davis. |
HELD UNDER SUSPICION
To See if He Can be Identified as One of the Burglars.
Edward Murray was arrested last evening by Chief Barnes on the charge of petit larceny in stealing an overcoat from the Elk hotel last Friday night. He was given a hearing in city court last night and was committed to jail to await an examination before Judge Davis tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. He is suspicioned by the chief of police of being one of the trousers' pocket burglars and an effort is being made today to have him seen by those who have seen the night prowler in their houses and see if he can be identified.
Murray, with William Brown, better known as "Booze" Brown, entered the Elk Friday night by the side door. After they had been in the bar room for a few minutes, one of them proposed that they should go over to The Kremlin [hotel]. They went through the rear door of the barroom into a small room that opens into the alleyway. Murray was seen to pause for a moment in this anteroom, and when he went out the side door W. J. McAuliffe, the clerk, says he saw him carrying away an overcoat that had been left hanging in the room by a guest. He immediately set out after the two and overtook them at the rear of the hotel. Murray then had the coat, McAuliffe says, and he took it from him and returned it to the hotel. Some one then suggested that the fellow should have been captured, and the clerk started in pursuit of the two, but they had escaped.
Saturday afternoon some one telephoned to the Elk stating that a light coat had also been taken and that it would be returned. It is not known positively who telephoned. That evening a small boy returned the coat, which belonged to the bartender, but he got out before he could be questioned in regard to who it was that sent him.
Monday afternoon Brown was arrested on the charge of public intoxication and was sent to jail for ten days. His record will also be looked up.
Brown and Murray have been shadowed by Chief Barnes for some time. They live in the eastern part of the city, and the chief states that he has been able to locate them in that section on other nights excepting those on which the burglaries were committed.,
Last night Murray pleaded not guilty. When arrested he was quick to ask what the charge against him was. When told that it was petit larceny he appeared quite satisfied. He is said by the chief too tally well with the descriptions that have been given him of the trousers' pocket burglar.
Miss Katharine E. Collins and Miss Bond, who had seen the burglar in their rooms, saw Murray today and said that he looked much like the man that was in their rooms, but they did not get a good view of him in the night, so they were not sure that he was the guilty party.
Miss Mary A. Oday, who claimed that she could identify the man should she ever see him, was not feeling well enough today to be shown the prisoner.
One of the Debate Team.
Mr. Charles B. Dowd of Cortland has been selected as one of the three men to represent Cornell university in the intercollegiate debate with the University of Pennsylvania on Dec. 12. The question submitted to Pennsylvania for approval is "Resolved, That present tariff on raw materials and rough products, such as pig iron, rails, steel, ingots, etc., is justified on the ground of protection of American industry from foreign competition." Pennsylvania will have the choice of sides.
Death of Mrs. Southworth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Southworth, wife of William Southworth, 146 Tompkins-st., died yesterday at 3:30 o'clock from catarrh of the stomach. She was 54 years, 11 months and 1 day of age. Prayer will be offered at the house tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock and the remains will then be taken to Camden on the 9:45 Lehigh Valley train. The funeral will be held in Camden on Saturday.
Mrs. Southworth was born in Camden and married Mr. Southworth in 1871. She leaves no children, but is survived by ten brothers and sisters, Gilbert Quance of Camden, Jarvis Quance of Newark, Mrs. Cordelia Rowell of Florence, Mrs. Permelia Birch of Frankfort, Dwight Quance of Batavia, Henry Quance of Camden, Mrs. Sarah Skinner of Camden, Mrs. Polly Lafferty of Fish Creek, William Quance of Camden and Mrs. Mahelia Rowell of Camden.
Mrs. Southworth was an honored member of the Congregational church of this city. She had been ill at intervals for several years, but her last illness was of only four weeks' duration.
FELL BETWEEN THE CARS.
Crossing a Movmg Train to Reach His Own Train.
Ross L. Davis, who lives in the Grand Central block nearly lost his life at the Benton switch at the Lackawanna railroad crossing on Railroad-st., this afternoon. As it was his left thumb was cut off and his right arm was severely cut at the elbow and may have to be amputated.
Davis was going to the station to take the 2:31 southbound train. He was late and as a train was moving slowly on the Benton switch across the street he started to climb upon a car to get to the other side of train. In some way his foot slipped and he fell between the cars and his thumb went between the wheel and rail and his arm was cut. He fell outside the rail. The train was quickly stopped and the injured man was taken to Dr. Ver Nooy's office, but was later moved to the hospital. It has not been decided as yet whether his right arm can be saved or not.
BREVITIES.
—The Fortnightly club will meet this week on Friday evening at 8 o'clock with Mrs. F. L. MacDowell, 78 Tompkins-st.
—The Dryden people have decided to hold a series of school receptions the coming winter to bring parents and teachers together that they may become well acquainted and thereby increase the interest of the former in the school.
—The announcement has just been made public of the gift to Syracuse university of $10,000 by Mrs. Esther Baker Steele of Elmira. Mrs. Steele, it will be remembered, is the lady with whom the late Mrs. O. A. Houghton of Cortland took her six months' trip to Mexico and California.
—A new company with a capital stock of $200,000 is being formed in Binghamton to manufacture the cactus fibre brushes and other articles made by Dr. A, E. Magoris of that city. Dr. A. E. Magoris has become a celebrated specialist. He is a graduate of the Cortland Normal school in the class of 1876..
—A roof upon the residence of Rev. W. E. Griffis in Ithaca was Tuesday being raised up one story. The siding of the house was all off and the roof was about half way up when a sudden gust of wind got under the roof and raised it bodily and deposited it in a dilapidated condition in the back yard. Several carpenters at work on the job had narrow escapes from injury.
—New display advertisements today are—Corner Grocery, Flour, page 8; Scotch Woolen Co., Suits and overcoats, page 8, G. H. Wiltsie Underwear, curtains and carpets, page 6; Opera House, "Faust," page 5; McGraw and Elliott, Horehound drops, page 6; Tyler & Smith, The Model, A perfect suit, page 4.
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