Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

Foreigan Paupers and Criminals.
Inter Ocean.
America is Europe transplanted.
The differences are those Of surround
ings and combinations. However
mixed the strain, none but European
blood flows in American veins. Our
people welcome with sincere good fell
iowship the multitude who, impelled
by the spirit of enterprise, come to
our shores every year, however poor or
illitcrate. Their labor can be utilized
and their children educated. But we
do not want and must not tolerate the
expectation to this country o. criminals
or paupers sent hither to get rid Of
them. Such imposition and outrage is
practiccd to much larger extent than
is generally supposed. An article in
the local columns of n Swiss paper of a
recent date, the Zolingcr Tagblatt,
affords Il glimpse Of what is going on in
this regard. A translation of it is
given in The Inter Ocean to-day.
1t might bt said that every vagabond
in every canton of Switzerland might
be dumped down upon our shores with
out adding pcrccptibly to either the
criminal or pauper class of America.
Indeed, the entire Swiss population
could cmigratc from the land of gla-
cicrs and crags to this broad and fertile
country without disturbing the equi-
poiSc of American life but there is no
reason to suppose that the communal
authorities of Switzerland are herein
sinners above the rest of Europe. The
temptation to get rid OF paurcrs
and villains by sending them to
this country must be general, and IFS
actual practice large, taken in the az
gregatc. The statistics of crime and
indigcncc throughout this country, but
more especially in the large cities, seem
to indicate that the immigrants are
much lOwCrin the industrial and moral
scale than the native population. But
this is not true of immigration, in dis
tinction from deportation. Those who
come here because they are sent here
constitute largely the foreign born
criminals and beggars of our land. The
man who has the desire TO earn IN hon
est living and better himself by his in
dustry, which undcrlies immigration,
rarely dcgcnerates into public nui-
sancc of any kind,
The remedy for this evil is not to be
found in the laws Of other countries.
The United States must take care of it.
self, and that, too, not by protest and
diplomacy, but by the cooperation of
its foreign consuls with the authorities
at American ports. Between the CON
suls, looking after emigrants, and the
agents of the government at our ports
OF entry. looking after immigrants, all
in tclcgraphic conjunction, the needed
protection could be afforded.
The secretary Of the treasury, in his
annual report, calls attention to the de
fccts in the new act under which he is
to have supervision of immi-
grafton. but which supervision must be
exercised exclusively through state
commissioners. That concession to
the supreme political hcrcsy of this
country mas ndu llttlttl " NH'lll W. !
feat the law at some ports (therc being
no state commissioners there,) and
even when such officers are found the |
OF the department is mere
ly nominal. Mr.. Folgcr urges Tie pas
sage of supplemental bill creating 4
national bureau of immigration He !
urges it upon the ground of useful |
ness to the immigrants in afford
ing them protection against
Such bureau could also |
render the country important SER
vice in the way of protection
from the evil in question, and this
feature of the case should not be over
looked in framing the new measure
by the secretary of the
treasury. 1t is entirely feasible to so
far reduce the deportation to our
shores of human nuisanccs as very |
perceptibly to lesson the average of
crime and pauperism in this country,