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concerns. But on the quarrel ATTEMPTED to be fas
| tened on this country about refugees the British
people are entitled boldly to express an opinion and
to make their opinion both heard and felt 4 mo-
UNJUST unreasonable, and, indeed. grossly imnprti
nent outcry has never been raised than res6unds
equally, 1t seems, in Paris and Vienna against This
country about the harboring of refugees Is if
| any advantage to us to have thousands of homeless
ana outawed foreigners let loose upon these islands
is not this visitation positive burden and inurv to
our own people? And to whom are we indebted for
H! why, to those very Governments who now
with consummate efronterv. turn round and rnalIe
the presence of these political refugees AMONG ms
ground OF complaint, and, it will not be their fault
II II not also ground of quarrel. The French and
Italian refugees in this country do not come here Of
their own accord. They would much rather rorooin
IN their own land Exile even being their doom,
the French would very generally prefer BoIgi,r,,
TO Britain, and the Italians sent beyond the AIns
would rather stay in France than cross the Channel
But they are not permitted England is in bundrods
OF cases named as the place to which they must go
NOW, just fancy the impudence for we can cali if
nothlhg else) OF continental Governments shoveInn
Inese Wfetched men upon US, and then flying into a
rage because we keep them, because we do NOT i'm
prison, say, burn, hunt them like wild baasts,,
Tor their satisfaction and security! What right
nave they to send them here, or anywhere bev9nd
lilGr own territories at all? If the men are crimi
nal, why do they not punish them? If innocent
why do they not let them abide in their own land
II SIMPLY dangerous, why do they not keen thnm
themselves The whole system is gross ATTEMPT
~ 'N P"i' vi CeIldlh European IOWerS to make |
Great Britain do duty for them-frst of cbarit,.
tnen % OF police and espionage, and lastly of punish
lnent' TO their profit and TO own hurt If it |
were IN orr power to make all toreipn rafurans |
thoroughly comfortable, moral, and happy, we
might probably do something eflectual for the pro
lection OF the crowned heads of Europe and so GOOD
a WORK would be its own reward. But the GREAT
majority OF these poor exes are miserable and
must be miserable. We cannot help it, And being
miserable, they grow desperate. What a history
va was that, Tor example, Of De la Sylvia the De Ru
dlo arrested in Paris which appeared in our col
umns yesterday! Without means of livelihood he
tries to earn his bread by translating for French
on her earnings, has child born to him. and is toss
ed ABOUT at last from one town to another an object
Oh charlty. Such man naturally becomes ripe in
course OF time for any plot, however wild or diaboli
ca ana II the crime of assassination is to be stopped
SoFercignS must begin to stop the system bv which
assasslns are made. At all events as an independent
nation, we can and must have no patience with the
orgettulness and petulance of people on the Cont
nent, who would make responsible for the conduct
of persons Who fustice had been done to us should
never have been cast upon shores.