Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — URGES PUBLICITY FOR CORPORATIONS [ARTICLE]

URGES PUBLICITY FOR CORPORATIONS

Report ot Secretary ot Con;merce and Labor Nagel. •- • ■ • r " The value of corporation publicity has been proved, says Mr. Nagel, the secretary of commerce and labor, in his annual report. The work of the bureau of corporations has been highly important during the year, hfe says, and probably this month a comprehensive report on its investigation of the lumber industry will he completed. The r bureau now has under way investigations of the International Harvester company, the steel and tobacco industries, concentration of water power ownership and corporate taxation. “There shouud be,” the secretary

says, “an active and permanent system of publicity under the federal government by which all important indus trial corporations engaged in interstate commerce shall report to one federal agency the essential facts of their business.” * Great popular interest attaches tc the immigration and naturalization of aliens, and much of the secretary's report is devoted to that subject. One of the hardships of the present immigration laws. Secretary Nagel believes, is the separation of families. In many instances a father is admitted and his wife and children are barred out after the pioneer has made a home. While the fiscal year 1910 brought a total of 1,198,037 immigrants to the Fnited States, the prediction is made that the coming year will approach the banner year, 1907, when more than 1,285,000 aliens came in. Of all those who came last year more than 274,000 admitted they had been assisted by friends. All the immigrants brought a total of $28,197,745 with them, a per capita of about 127. The bulk of the immigration continues to be drawn from southern and eastern Europe. Two per cent of all who applied for admission were turned bacii. They numbered 24,270 in all, as against 10,411 in 1909. Though no increase in attempts to import contract labor is apparent, > 1,700 aliens were deported as; such during the year. Stricter legislation to govern that class of immigration is recommended.