Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1845-02-15


expenses of our Aims House have more
J than doubled during the last ten years
5 The increase has been just in proportion
: 10 immigration. Thus IN 1884, the ex.
penses were $l19,211,78, while in l843
, they were $25l 900 may be asked in
this connection, why it is that vast sums
raised here by foreigner associations, and
} "RepeaIers," and sent to ill the pockets
Of these agltators, etc, are not given to
support their countrymGn, whom our cltI-
, zens are compelled 10 support by public
: charity? Ii has been well said, in view
, Of foreign pauperism in this city, by "a
committee of Common Council: " In fact
our public charities are principally for
The benefit of foreigners. The immense
5 number of persons arriving at this port,
fleeing from the poverty, starvation and
oppression Of Europe, is certainly calcn-
; laled not only 10 excite our sympathy,
! but 10 create welI-iOunded alarm as to
the results Of our municipal prosperity,
as we'll as the character and morality Of
our population. The greater number Of
~ CoS SAii hlto arc dbHDlukGIy DCHHB .
less, and reekng with the accumulated
/, filth which long confinement on ship.
board and an habiuaI want of cleanliness
produce. They almost all Immediately
roam the streets; a band of huuseIesS
mendlcants, or applying to your aims
i houses. Crime succeeds desilulion; your
prisons are filled; your hospitals are
crowded with them, and your public trea
sury is spent upon those who never con
trlbuled to the general weltarer' And fur,
Their: The Aims House is fuIi--contain.
ing at this moment 4,074 Of which about
three loIrths are foregnersm How
many more foreigners live upon private
charities" says another report, d" let the
swarms Of meDdcants who daily and
nightly throng our streets, attest.'
BY report made by Messrs. Miller
and Gale of the present New York Com
mon Council, it appears that the number
of white adults in the Aims House and
Penientiary, is $3.50, and that OF this
number 1881 or mDre than taDo thirds are
foreigners =" and The same proportion"
says they, undoubtedly exists among
the inmates o! our prisons" etc. "FheI
disbursements of the city IN support OF
this stablshmen during the year, a
mounted TO S251 900! without reference
to the interest on the vast sums invested
in the necessary grounds and building"
The city received, during the year, ST.
34l for the support of bonded passengers,
and So ,922 for combinations Of alien
emigrants--total Sl3264--to be credited
TO "dlien paupsriSm." Thus it will be
seen that " the city Of New York is d.
rcctIy taxed" says the report, "to the
amount of $3.50, 600 a year for the sup
port Of alien paupers and uagrants," TheI
committee Justly enquire, in view Of this
onerous tax and imposition upon our citI-
zeus. is this burlhep justly thrown
entirely upon the tax-paying citizens of
New York? Is the evil o! which they
complain altogether beyond the reach oil
remedial Legislation? And they conclude
that il is clearly within the ability and
the duty Of the Federal Government toI
remedy the evil" They also suggest
that this should be brought before Con
.gress without delay, ito equalze this
bufthen, if not 10 arrest the excessive
pauper immigration which induces it,"
{" cannot be denied" continues the
report, that the Aims House establish.
ment has been made subservient TO party
purposes; and that sturdy paupers abund
antly able TO maintain themselves by
hard labor, have been supported there in
idleness at the expense OF the tax paying
citizens, and, as would seem, Tor no other
purpose than that of securing suffrages
for the dominant party! The State cleo
lion is no sooner owe: than crowds OF able
bodied paupers thronG our Aims House,
They are fed clothed and lodged well
during the lncement season Of the year;
and, in the spring, without having contri
bu'ed penny in money or labor for their
winters en!ertainmentsthey are marched $
up to the polls 10 uOte avay The rights and
property Of self supporting labOrers and
indeL endem cttjzenS" In connection with a
these facts, the committee make some ex e
cellent suggestions az the employment
OIL these foreign pauper voters, alas Il
better American" freemen, and " lords It
of the American balIo,-box." Similar o
evils exist in other large cities of our P
countryiand they have become too nu- C
me rous and aggravated for a people ha 4
wing any respect or regard for themselves "
and for our institutions, longer TO be toll "
Grated. The report and bill OF The Con- a
yressional Committee raised on this sub
ect and the Naturalization laws IN 1883; Fl
Hon. Mr.. Russell, of Washington county, al
New York, chairman provided against "
he increase of this foreign paupcrlsm N
among US. 1t is very apparent that The pI
,vi can and should at once arrest the at al
enlion Of our countrymen and members n
If Conuress