Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — Assisted Immigrants. [ARTICLE]

Assisted Immigrants.

The fares of the Italian immigrants are very commonly paid by their relatives and friends in this country, who, if they have not the money, can obtain it readily without security from any one of the numerous Italian banks in American cities. There are dozens of these institutions in New York which lend money in this way at 100 or 200 per cent., getting it back ■from the first earnings of the imported immigrant. The banks also do a great business in contract labor, fetching over men by thousands to work on railways, in the mines or elsewhere. Of course, this is against the law, but is extremely difficult of detection.