Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1920 — FIGHT FOR PASSPORTS [ARTICLE]

FIGHT FOR PASSPORTS

15,000,000 People Anxious to Come to United States. All Nationalities and Evary Social and Economic Classification Are Represented. New York.—Fifteen million men, women and children, of all social and economic classifications, representing •very nationality In Europe, are fighting for passage to the United States, according to reports submitted by 17 transatlantic steamship company representatives to Frederick A. Wallis, commissioner of emigration at Ellis island. Every seaport city and town along the western and southern coasts of Europe, they said, is crowded with persons who in their eagerness to leave for this country have sold their hemes and everything they possessed. Passport officers abroad were reported to be besieged with applicants. The steamship representatives also expressed the opinion that 5,000,000 Germans and Austrians are packed up and ready to sail as soon as "the United States makes peace with their governments. Oom mi as loner Wallis, who is going to Washington for a conference with members es the house and senate immigration committee said: “Eighty-seven per cent of immigrants enter the United States through Ellis Island, and there are 2,000 persons tliete now who are shamefully crowded. There is no use denying the fact that we haven’t enough room. And they are still coming. “It would amaze one to know that on one particular day the Polish foreign office had 311,000 applications for passports.” More Immigrants are arriving from Poland than from any other country, he said. Most of these people are Jewish-”