The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-02-08
IMMIGRATION.
Dangers from Capitalization.

Not very long ago q convention was
called Mt indianapolis for the purpose
of devising measures for the protection
of immigrants. The call appeared to
have been made under the authority
of various Western State Governors
The convention was attended in good
faith by many men of standing and
reputation, and by delegations but,
on its assembly, it was soon discover
ed TO be mere trick engineered in
the interests, materially, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad people; one of whose
ticket agents was intended to have
been Chairman or President of the
conven!ion-and politically, for the
purpose 50 to act upon Congress rs to
place entire immi grafton business un-
der the management of the General
Government, with a perfect army OF
inspectors, superintendent, clerks and
so forth, unrivaled in numbers even by
the present locust swarm of revenue
ollicials-and all these men were to be
under the control of the Secretary of
the Treasury, adding 10 his already
immense patronage and danger Gus
powers.
The terrible expense which could
thus be added to the National 'out-
GO was, of course, kept very much
in the background-but it is easily
understood and surely this is 10 time
to saddle new burdens on the people,
who are now weighed down with the
interest on the public debt and the ex-
travagant expenditures of Govern
ment, which in these expenditures
does not even encourage commerce.
If we consider that the National
expense for the past year, leaving out
those of the Army and Navy and the
interests due on the public debt, were
s., 400, ,0J0 more than the similar (not
Crown expenses of Great Britain
while in the English expenses is in
cluded 4 sum Of seqeral millions of
dollars paid for the support of steam
ship iine.-we can see that our simple
Republican Government spends very
much and has very little to show for
it, after all not even assisting the
people to earn the sums of money it
takes from them.
A recent notice in daily newspa-
per has again called attention to the
immigration subject. The notice is
as follows: "Henry ID. Cooke (of Jay
Cooke & Coz, with several Western
members of Congress, called upon
Secretary Boutwell,, this afternoon, to
get his views on the bill introduced
into Congress in accordance wits the
memorial of the National lnmi gra-
ton Convention, asking that custom
officials shall be made the agents oc
the Government in all matters rela-
ting to immigration. =; = AZ
ter hearing the explanation offered by
Mr.. Cooke that it would take the
matter out of the hands Of the State
authorities, and make the Government
tie protector Of immigrants until they
cached their destination, Secretary
Boutwell, said he would think the mat
ter over, and desired the committee to
;all again"
Now we desire, rs 4 very pertinent
matter, in this case, to call the atten-
ion to the continued assaults, in the |
worst interests of. ''centralizatiOn,"
made at the National capital by the
members of this firm of Jay Cooke 6-
Co., and if Horace Greeley would
rive as frank and fair statement
If his opinions of their actions as he
lid recently of the COB" of the West
an Union Telegraph Company, he
would edo the State some service"
Jay Cooke tS Co. are Il new firm
hat is to say, one that was brought
nto existence by the war. Their
money was made and their banking
ouse established by their employment
$ brokers for the sales of the Gov
rnment debt. Out of these sales