Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-09-03
DISTRESS IN ENGLAND.

and even in our day, when the easy commun
ication between the two hemspheres, by
steam and electricity, wonld prove our great
est curse. His idea was that cheap and auicl
transit would set on our shores, hordes O.
impoverished and ignorant people who would
in . short time outnumber the native popu
la.ion, cheaper labor, SOW seeds of immor
Atty and discord, and finally sap the founda-
ton of society and materially effect our Re-
publican form of Government, as well rs
food the land with the product of cheap labor
thus destroying our industries, and causing
financial ruin. The Judge was right, except
that he got his entries on the wrong side of the
ledger, for while it has not brought ruin to us,
it has come very near to it on the other side.
II is true that an immense immigration has
flowed this way, but it is equally true that
they have fallen very quietly and naturally
into our habits and become Americanized in
q short space of time. How quietly this has
been accomplished, let the interest attached to
the soil by the absolute ownership of real
tate, and our grand public school system, tell.
That we have not been swamped by the pro-
duct of cheap labor; the pluck which has es-
tablished competitive works, even in the lines
which were considered in England almost
monopoly; and the brains which have perfected
the finest labor saving machines the world
ever saw, tells the story and the land which
produces the raw material which they are
Ii -, a.. L,,ka hat oh ata
ial we're better worked at home by importing
their skilled labor, than send it abroad and
have our mills and factories idle, and millions
unemployed. And it has come to pass that
we are to-day able to successfully compete in
the markets of the world, in manufactures,
and every year increases our working force
from immigration and these immigrants are
consuming the products of the soil and adding
ranks of healthy population. Every year
this influx of settlers assumes more healthy
aspect. They, some years ago, were made
up chiefly of poor, uneducated and hopeless
laborers, and too often of the lowest grades of
tramps and paupers who were shipped out of
their country :" for their countrys good ;"
they are now, unually mechanics or farmers,
who come to colonize the great States of the |
Northwest, and who buy land and settle down
to lives Of industry and independence.
This is the curse that quick and cheap ocean
transit has brought about, and is what will
revolutiopize England, where the eyes of
the good man are ever turned to the only
point where he can see ray of hope; the
broad plains, rich and beautiful, of the far
off West Steam communication, notwith-
standing all its great advantages, has really
been a curse to large number of the popula-
ton of the United States. The myriads who
flock eastward every year, crowding every
the throng of extravagant idle
Americans who swarm at watering places,
md crowd the hotels, or crawl up steep noun
aims in broadcoth and kid gloves, and COM
nit the ten thousand follies, which a young
American let loose is sure to commit; the
Dose habits and irreligious views, contracted,
md the general taste for idleness and Bo-
,emianism acquired, has proved to be very
ormluaDle curse, DuC IL Is one IhaI Is proving .
ess noxious every year, and this European
our has become too common to be fashion
BILE, and the piles of wealth spread abroad
ach year, is being spent more generally at
ome. But the ocean steamer with its quick ,
sssage, has brought US the blessing and left
he curse on the other side, and we are not
kelly to be outsold in market, Overstocked
nth foreign element, or eaten out of food ,
Mrs SPRAGUE, it is said, under the advice t