United States consul at BudaPesth. Hungary. in one of his reports to the State Department in 1882. refers to this question in most emphatic terms. Among other things he says: I have information that agents are managing the business a good deal in the manner of the cooly trade. and that these immigrants are shipped to the United States about like so many cattle. The Hungarian consul at New York. Count Esterhazy. also refers to Jrur 19. this system as affecting his own people. and calls upon this Congress to pass a law "to put a stop to such immigration." He says that "great numbers of immigrants are landed on these shores who are owned by capitalists. " I have myself seen these imported laborers working on the Nickel Plate Railroad outside of Cleveland. and my colleague. Mr. PAINE. of the Akron district. who had a contract to build a portion of the Ohio River Railroad. informs me that some of the subcontractors on that road employed large numbers of Italians. secured through New York agencies.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are being treated like cattle and owned by capitalists.