, 1874-06-14
PAUPER AND CONVICT IMMIGRATION.

The Secretary OF State has laid before Con
gress mass OF papers which prove commend
! able energy in the State Department. It has
repeatedly intcrfered of late years in order to
prevent this country from being made the alms-
house and penal colony of Europe. In March, 1869,
it notified the Hon. George Bancroft TINT some
German Jews were said to be sending their pau
rushed upon the Israelites, but found that the
persons they exported were provided with money
and were willing to work. In August, 1871, tho
! Hon. Horace Rublee, Minister to Switzerland, dis
covered that the Canton OF 4rgovic was stocking
| this country With its helpless citizens. lie "in-
terfered with such effect that an incurable idiot
Was prevented from coming to tho
United 6tates." What We could have dopo
with one moro than the multitude already
on hand, nobody can tell. It WAS hard
on the idiot, though. BE will never
amount to anything in Switzerland, and
he might have gone to Congress- if he had
come here. All honor to Mr.. Rublee. A Minis
ter to Switzerland has not much to do and we
*AA4c" VI AAo o1AlGA "1t 4oI ILL ~ hfU1u e747H&
than to skirnish along the frontiers and inter-
cept incurab1e idiots bound to this happy land.
In November, 1871, Gen. Schenck charged upon
tho Liverpool Select Vestry and nipped in tho
bud, with the assistance of Her Majesty's Minis
try, scheme for exporting pauper children
Soon efter lie discovered, OF thinks he discover
ed, that the Ministry was sending pauper and
convict adults here. He has not been able to
get satisfactory answer upon tho subject
perhaps because he has been so busy exploiting
the Emma Mine. In May, 1872, Admiral Polo
was called upon to state why the Cuban nuthori-
tics had sent four helpless old ladies' to Key
West. He replied that they we're Bisters Of an
insurgent. There tho matter rested. though
our obligation to support paupers because
they are sisters OF man who is waging
war against nation with whom NO
are at peace does not seem conclusive Then
the State Department ran down nine Creeks,
but they turned out not to be criminals who had |
come here at their country's expense. By con-
centrating all available forces in Florida, a
threatened descent Of seventy old Cuban |
women and children upon our shores was hap
PLY prevented. In October, 1872 the Grand
Duke Of Hesso was fairly caught in the net OF |
shipping one Johann Staufr, sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life for robbery. arson, and mur-
der, to America. It was delicate compliment
to the land Of our pride. What was worse, the
Grand Duke, true to the traditions Of bis house,
said he meant to do so in the future sharp
finally obtained the promise that
The Grand Ducal Government "had adopted tho
resolution in case Of pardon to abstain hereafter
rom making the emigration OF the criminal
o America condition" This is kind, very
zind, and must certainly tend to bind the
americans and the Hcseians very cloeely to-
;ether. If the practice continues, however, no
must retaliste. When the Government begins
0 ship bad characters to Hesae Chicago will
heerfully spare Mike Mcdonald, Tim Fuller,
nd ". F. Storey as her quota of the first batch.
leanwhile it is sweet to think that the eve Of !
le American eagle is upon the 1ascals who
trive to como here and pollute us. Let Rublee.
ollaring his incurnbe idiot, be warning to all
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