Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — No Room for British. [ARTICLE]

No Room for British.

The annual report filed at Washington of William Wyndham, the British consul at Chicago, is a document of unusual variety of character and is curious in that it branches entirely from the point of view that the United States are a good place for emigration, showing that Englishmen are unwise to come to America unless they have a trade and are skilled in that trade. Consul Wyndham portrays the life of the average clerk in an office or a store and states in many cases he only receives a bare living, while in agricultural or manual labors a Briton would have to give way to the great number of foreign emigrants who are thoroughly inured to this sort of work