Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1915 — Some One Should Re Held Responsible for This. [ARTICLE]

Some One Should Re Held Responsible for This.

It is reported that a score or more of the foreign families who were brought in here this spring and located on the Springer ranch in Walker tp., where they invested all their savings in small tracts of land, are in destitute circumstances; that they were promised work at good wages until they could raise a crop by the agents who brought them here, but that the wages are not forthcoming and as a result they are almost in a starving condition. Michael Jungles, of that vicinity, has been assisting some of them with food stuffs but they will need considerable to tide them over until a crop can be raised. In fact, it is doubtful if they can raise enough this year to support themselves. They are principally Hungarians.

It would seem that the parties who got their money and were instrumental in bringing them there ■should he made to care for them. It is a crime to bring these practically destitute people into our county, and expect them to make a living, for a time at least, on almost barren lands. The golden visions painted by some of these land agents would, if actions were brought in court against them, probably land them in prison.