Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1916 — TWENTY MILLION MEN [ARTICLE]

TWENTY MILLION MEN

Will Want io Come to United States After War, Says Howe. New York, Feb. 21,—Twenty million men who have been living in the trenches in Europe and have developed the spirit of demoncracy will become restless under old restrictions after the war and wish to come to this country, declared Frederick C. Howe, United States commissioner of Immigration, in an address before the National Democratic club here today. Mr. Howe said it Is Impossible at this time to forecast with any degree of certalnity what the immigration problem will amount to after the war. Bad times abroad, he added, sent people here, and bad times here check the Inflow. The large influx of Immigrants, Mr. iHowe pointed out, may be expected from Russian and the Balkan states, while Great Britain and Austria-Hungary also will have trouble keeping their people. He said we might also expect many from other countries whose business has been ruined by the war. There Is rapidly developing In the United States, according to Mr. Howe, what he termed a ‘‘labor vaoudm,” and we must be prepared for the exodus of many foreigners now here who will return to Europe at the end of the war to learn what had become of their relatives. In a year or so, he predicted, there will be work for everybody and conditions for the laborer will be better than at any time since the Civil war. "4