 | Prescott Farnsworth Hall - 1906 - 426 Seiten
...inducing him to sell or mortgage all his belongings for the purpose of raising the necessary travelling expenses, which latter transaction is also turned to profit by such agent." That there is a vast amount of " coaching " of immigrants by steamship agents and officers is not to... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Immigration - 1897 - 488 Seiten
...sell or mortgage all his belongings for the punióse of raising t he necessary traveling ex penses, which latter transaction is also turned to profit...denied by him. "If all this emigration is brought alx'Mit by natural causes," said J, "and the business would come to you anyway, why do you have so... | |
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... expenses, which latter transaction is also turned to profit by such agent. The steamship companies of course do not concede the existence of such unnatural emigration, as I learned in the course of an interview which I had with a high official of... 