The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1882-06-09


Deep ID The heart this moral lesson hide,
Which speaks with hollow voice, IS from
the dead,
or beauty faded and glory fed
8. Dezeado esf Carthage.
Next we come to the Italian republics,
Florence. Venus, Genoa and Milan Gui-
cot, in speaking Of them says: We find
the course of events instead Of aiding the
progress 81 liberty, insteadIof enIarging
the circle Of institutions tending to repress
it, tending to concentrate power into the
hands Of 4 small number Of individuals.
Ina word We find in these republics. 9TH
Eerwise - energetic, 50 brilliant and 50
rich, tsc tiings wanting. security Of life
the irst requisite ID the social states and
liz 80 sfinstitutions. They exist
only i history and as We SET an these an
eient republics rise, flourish and decline,
dos II not seen1to ring the death Inell Of
Az existing republics7
Let Us transport ourselves to New
ENGLAND - = ws sislild 81 sIlG biIloWy
cost d fks AtIantiic. Re ses lonely
lans threading Is ~ through the Az
most painless waves that threaten tol
fenguH her but she gains the harbor and
the little band disembark, and from them
and led on by them a nation has arisen,
through many perils and yicissitudes, un-
til she has attained the finest civilization
the world has ever known. We have The
gay bloom and the golden fruit or the
tropics, the glittering glaciers Of the
Rocky Mountain heights, the short-lived
vegetation Of Lake Champlain and the
perennial verdure Of the Gulf states. In
short whateverof beauty attracts the eye
or feasts the soul beneath the glowing
sun of an Italian sky or Alpine heights.
can be found in our own land in profusion.
But notwithstanding our resources, our
.expanse Of country and our civilization,
there are cankers in the nation that are
slowly but surely gnawing at her vitals,
and unless there lis retrenchment and re-
form, Columbia tottering with age ere she
has matured will fall with her. autobiogra-
ply unwritten on the hill Of progress.
One of the most pernicious things to our
republican institutions is monopoly.
Capital is rapidly concentrating itself into
the hands Of the few, and labor is pitted
against.it in every State and there is moth:
ing now that holds out any improvement.
It's astonishing even in our small towns
how rich capitalists eanabsorbthe smallerl
a.ss. md how they able % crush ott
opposition. How ii these larger estab
iishments The perfect control to which.
tllcikhanas ~ 81 eetsd they depending
"a diem fheir dsilt hres xlasa not iin
sIetlioH uAaes disobey them, and rather
than lose their places vote IS they dictate
Still popular orators speak Of America as
the one land where one may vote his own
sentiments without the fear of molestation,
That is true to a certain extent, but when
they are opposed to the views of their en-
ployer and his party, they do it with dis
rnissal staring them in the face, and the
cries for bread from their children ringing;
in their ears. Another bane to our coun-
try is our immigration, and the types Of
people>who compose il. Ship load after
ship loadof the lowest caste Of European
society are landed on our coast, They
come from every kind of European op-
preston and from the slums of poverty.
They receive more remuneration for
their labor here than there, but still they
are dissatisfied, and three-fourths of our
tramps are Of foreign birth. Are the laws
that governed US one hundred years ago,
when our population was thin and SCAT
tered, best for the United States when
she has increased from Ave to fifty mil
lions Of people9 Most certainly not. Is
one part Of our country to be cursed by a
tide Of immigration, bearing in upon them
a race Of people who are content to live in
pig-pens and novels; who have nothing
in common with America, who only come
to remain a short time to bear away wealth
from the land and bring nothing into it,
simply because our fathers said SO at the
foundation of the governments The cries
Of the people along the Pacific coast have
at last found a response in this congress,
who have endeared, themselves in the
hearts Of these people, by keeping from our