The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-06-17

next assure themselves that the organization
Is led and Inspired by German agitators, and
If they are tk6e to their trusts they will pro-
coed to . general revision of the immigration
laws. a Thousand Cinnamon cannot bring to
our shores the mischief that is brought by one
apostle Of Lasalle. The time has come when
America should cease to be the sdunp-
in~g-ground." of Europe. Horde-like immi-
grafton, with its collateral consequences, if Il
ever was a blessing to the United States. has
ceased to be So now. 1t has become the curse
Of IN answered prayer. Not only has it re-
duced to one-half the population of pure and
genuine descendants of the choicest race that,
in modern times, has dwelt upon the earth
but it has peopled our soil with the worst re-
fuse of other lands. 1t would indeed seem
high time that the legal limitations be at once
imposed upon indiscriminate immigration.
"No one can blame Prince Bismarck for the
sagacity with which he secretly encouraged
the emigration Of German Socialists to the
United States. The application to this pur-
pose of the enormous sums supplied by the
secret service fund, and of the revenhes de-
rived from the confisicated estates Of the
Crown of Hanover, is a fact well known to
many statesmen Of Europe, though ignored
by our own. Our daily papers are constantly
announcing the fresh arrivals Of Socialist
leaders, driven from their own country by the
recent oppressive measures. 1t is not to the
German Chancellor that we must look for
protection against these importations. 1t is to
our own government, which is highly censur-
able for not taking notice of such arrivals, as
was lone by Secretary Fish, though, u%nfortu-
nately, but on one similar occasion. In Ger
many, the Imperial Government, supported by
the Church Of Rome, is straining every effort
to drive the Socialist from his native soil.
The iron will and hand Of the police alone
have jurisdiction over millions of German cit
liens, and the steps by which suppression is
enforced are of a character SO drastic and az
bitrary that exile becomes a boon compared
with the suffering to be endured under the
ban of the new law. And america alone Of
fers to these outcasts the hope of unmolested
combination. With these facts before them,
will the people of the United States persist in
their usual course Of apathy so long as their
apparently immediate interest is not affected ?
Then let them consider that not only the best
interests of society, but the best interests of
property are at stake. On the eve of great
events our people are ever more sanguine than
those of other countries. 1t was so before the
great war of secession; it was so before Black
Friday; it was so before the strikes of 1877.
No sooner did the danger become visible than
all marveled how it could have come so sud
denly upon the country. Yet, in the case of
the strikes, we had had our warning on the
day succeeding the Christmas of 1916.
The plant which has found root in our soil
must be killed before it bursts upon us full
blown. The powerful and growing organiza-
ton which now honeycombs the country must
be laid low before we have forgotten the
smouldering fires of Pittsburg, and the insur-
rection which extended through fourteen
States of the Union-an instruction which
destroyed millions of property and hundreds
Of lives, in many, eases successfully denied the
local authorities, and for the first time in
American history revealed its power to an Or
ganized mob. No thoughtful man can dwell
upon our defenceless future without fear and
apprehension, although the great mass of our
people close their eyes to danger past and
coming. With that same tranquility and in
ward satisfaction with which honest Lucretius
gazed from the land upon the wrecking ship,
does the average American mind view the
mighty struggle now waging in the German
Empire"
Socialism in America is no longer a myth,
it is a fact; it was the spirit which showed
itself in the recent election of the Kearney
Constitution.
Americans have always admired a righteous
and honorable resistance of a poverty-stricken
people to despotism, but they have no sylnpa-
thy with the disorder, terrorism, and tyranny
Of the new creed proclaimed by modern So
cialists in Germany, and against it they will
rise as q people but ere it becomes too strong
to be crushed without b~loodshed, let it b.
welded from the land. Some can not under
stand how the pernicious doctrines of Social
ism can take root and thrive in the free air of
our republic, and are disposed to laugh at our
fears but let them beware, for, perhaps, they
laughing away the liberties of their co,n-
try.-A,gonaut.
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