Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-06
INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN EKIGR4-
TION.

INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN EHIGR4-
TION.
The tide of foreign emigration that is
rolling in upon our shores is being aug
mented every year. Emigration is not
only welcomed, but solicited. Emigra-
ton agents are busy at various points in
the Old World, unfolding the advantages
of life in the New World" and placing
before the people the attractions of our
vast prairies and the cheapness of our
lands.
We are amazed at the large and con-
slant arrival of emigrants, not
realizing that the great move
ment is not an entirely vol
untary one, but is, to large extent, the
product of direct invitation and earnest
rope realize their helpless and hopeless
condition. Doomed to an unaccumula-
tive life of drudgery, themselves, they see
no hope of improvement or advancement
for their families. They are therefore, the
more ready to listen to inducements to
leave countries where they and their chill
dren after them must be doomed to hope
less toiling and poverty.
While many emigrants come prepared
with material means sufficient to establish
themselves in comfortable homes
here with the prospect of further ad-
vancement, it is yet true that
the great majority of emigrants and
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fore them, with everything to accomplish
and to achieve. Yet the American people
cordially welcome all such, and generously
put them on the line of elf-help and thrift
ty accomplishment.
But in all this it is too much overlooked.
or the fact forgotten that these emigrants
coming from the different nation
alities of the Old World, bring with them
influences, modes and habits of thought
and action entirely at variance with our
own institutions, our own modes and
habits of thought and action, moral educa-
tional and religious. While many of a
more enlightened and educated class come
In, it must be acknowledged that an i'm
mense mass of ignorance is being thrown
in upon US.
And thus thousands, and tens of
thousands, without regard to mental
enlightenment, are rapidly admitted to all
the franchises of our free government. and
are clothed with full citizenship, without
any due or proper preliminary prepara-
ton, or knowledge of the genius of our in
situations. Thus these masses often be-
come, unwittingly, the prey of corrupt
demagogues, to their own hurt and the
decentralization Of society. 1t is impera-
tive that an educational safeguard be erect
ed, to protect our political franchises from
the sway of demagogues and corruption
lists.
inducements more or less peremptory,
should be established to encourage or re-
quire the English spoken language to take
the place of the numerous foreign dialects.
that come booming and clashing inconven-
iently among US.
The foreign emigrant, educated. or reared
IN different schools, under different influ-
ences, and in different habits, STYLES and
modes of thought and action. brings all
his predjudices of education or
non-education with him and
seeks to perpetuate them, and
too often, rejects any and all attempts at
assimilation with the institutions of the
country of his adoption, and defes their
predominant prevalence, and seeks to set
up his own preferences. The emigrant
should feel, as he is, in duty and honor
bound. to respect ard honor the institutions
of the country of his adoption, and should
strive to become assimilated to them, and
to maintain and perpetuate them, rather
than to set them aside, to be re-
| placed by the strange and uncongenial
modes of his own native nationality.
Something is due to the preferences of a
country that welcomes the emigrant to all
| its advantages.
As a single sample, the observance OF
the Sabbath as day of rest and absti-
hence from labor and noisy recreation, is
universal American custom established
in the earliest days of the formation of the
republic. And, yet, how many
emigrants. reared in the Old World, who
have no reverence for Sabbath observance
such as is cherished preference of our
American people.
Emigration to the amount of nearly OF
quite million year Is thrown upon