The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-21
Our Cousins from over the Way,
Philadelphia Times,

Never were the people in the countries
across the water casting such longing eyes on
the broad acres of our land as at the present
time. They have heard that we are wealthy
and they want to come and see if it is true.
If we are ENJOYING prosperity they would
like to be neighborly and share it with u.s..
They come IN droves and by the myriad.
Since New Years day more than hundred
thousand have landed on our shores. More
than 6fty thousand came in the month Of
April, and still they pour in upon US at the
same rate. They are welcome. some OF
them, it is true, have Objectionable habits
and some are not personally all that could
be desired. Yet as q mass we bid them come
in and make themselves ut home We well
come them, not to sit down in the dirt they
may have brought with them and add 1t to
the impurity of our already too dirty great
cities, but we welcome them to our vast
Western and Southwestern country. They
are welcome to all the gold and silver and
precious stones they can dig from the earth.
They are welcome TO our untitled soil, where
we bid them God-speed, with pillow and axe
and pick and spade, in raising harvests for
their profit and ours and for the advantage
of some of the hal-ted people IN other
quarters of the earth. They are welcome to
engage in any sort Of honest labor by which
they can get living. The sooner they get
at work the better tor them and the better for
us. Over-ta1ed and downtrodden many of
them have been at their homes, and we offer
them chance of becoming almost anything
they choose to make themselves.
For the most part this years immigration
have been quite decent aud thrifty people.
A great many of them bring money in their
20 kets, and a majority have wholesome
ambition to settle down VIII re they can do
well for themselves and their families. But
there is one little mite of exception which
must be taken to a few specimens OF our
trans. Atlantic cousins Just arrived. Perhaps
it is hardly the fair thing to value our
guests according to the wealth they bring
with them, or to despise them if they make
their appearance among us with their pocket
books in condition of collapse Yet when
any of these people come in the capacity of
paupers labeled as such, and with no hope
of anything above psuperism, we must re-
spectfully decline to give them so cordial a
reception as to induce the coming of more
like them. There are poorhouses on the
other side of the water. The Old World is
rich in them. We,re new country and
have not vet completed full assortment of
these houses of entertainment, ror do we
want to until we have on hand which are
more TO our liking. Therefore, when the
Government of Bavaria packs off select
lot of her paupers and tells them she will
ever so kindly pay their passage to America
if they will only be 50 good as never to re.
turn. we protest and object Sixteen
II Of this nlnsa have hnpp
dumped from one steamer upon our shores.
In this party there are eighty grown-up peo-
ple who answer to roll-call, and these have
been bles ed or cursed with children so nu-
merous that the Commissioners of lmmigra-
ton have Ms much as they can do 10 count
them. Most of these people are unskllIed
laborers All of them are without funds,
and there is not so much as a dollar IN the
whole party to pay for a meal Ibey
have come as sort of advance guard-a
kind of first fruits Of summer crop, ss Il were,
10 le. us know that Bavaria has more 10
snare, and that she will send is all we can
lind p0orhouse accommodation Tor. ne
matter of the coming of these poverty 'iric6-
en- BavaranS has been referred to the S.ate
Department ut Washington There Is u
possibility that this lot of immigrants may
become involuntary emigrants. and go at the
bidding of the State Department to the land
either fathers. ii Bavaria should then CON
Jude to ship them back to u AMI we in
,urn resolve to reship them, these seasoned
and sailed children Of a foreign shore may
nave t. spead the residue Of their lives on the
bjllowy deep. Probably this would suit
them rs well as anything else, and the club
rates prevalent in the Storage OF emiGrant
a,eamer lines it might cost us little to sup
mort them Mt sea as on dry land Let Baya-
ria keep her paupers to herself and send rs
samples of something OF better quality.