The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-06-30

The difficulty with regard to the
importation of paupers from Great
Britain has been fully and carefully
considered by President Arthur, who
has not, in fact, been found to have
been lacking in foresight as to any
official emergency. The Presidents
reply to those who wanted him to take
action in regard to pauper immigration
showed that in this case, as in others,
he had anticipated all suggestions. As
to this subject he said:
Correspondence in regard to it has
been had with our diplomatic and con-
sular representatives, and an investiga-
ton into the facts is now being made
by them. 1t is, of course, proper that
this government should ascertain
whether any nation with which it holds
amicable relations is violating any obi
cations of International friendship be-
fore calling attention to any such mat
ter. In the meantime, the law now
provides that the officers of the Trea-
sury shall examine into the condition
of the passengers arriving as immigrants
at any port in the United States, and if
there should be found any convict, lu-
matte, idiot or any person unable to
take care of himself without becoming
a public charge, they shall report the
same in writing to the collector of such
port, and such persons will not be per-
mitted to land. The investigation will
be thorough and exhaustive on this side
of the Atlantic and on the other, and
in the meantime the law will be strictly
enforced.
And by enforcing the law President
Arthur means all that any good citizen
could ask, however Jealous.
THAT fearless Democratic Newspaper,
the New York Sun, has been string up
its less courageous Democratic contem-
poraries by it's avowal, that the great and
dominant issue of the next Presidential
Campaign will be an entire change of
Federal Office holders.
The particular language which is oc-
casioning so much distress to some of the
Suns contemporaries is. the following.
Mr.. Eaton, Mr.. Pendleton, Mr.. Raum
and the machine politicians who have put
on the cloak of reform, want this venal
crew kept in Office, on the ground that
they have had experience and are famil-
lar with the conduct of public affairs. On
the other hand, We want them turned
out neck and heels, as the first indiSpen-
sable step toward the publication of the
public services.
OF this startling avowal it may be said,
at any rate, that there is one evidence as
to its being the expression of the senti-
ments actually entertained by most of
the Democratic journals, viz; their re-
markable unanimity in dropping Mr..
Pendleton out of sight as Presidential
candidate, ever since it became certain
that his Civil SerI ice Reform bill-draf-
ted by Mr.. Eaton-would be something
more than a snowy sort of bid for the
support of Republicans who were not
satisfied with actual Republican Civil
Service Reform, and were ready to make
it their main issue in 1884.
No candidate in all the motley crowd
was dropped with greater alacrity or ami
mostly by his own party organs than
Mr.. Pendleton was as soon as 1t was as
certained that his bill was going to
become law. Indeed, the leading
Democratic paper in Mr.. Pendleton's
own State. the Cincinnati Inquirer, has
persistently insisted that ha is entitled to
the condemnation of his party for being
engaged in any scheme to cheat that
party out of the expected spoils of 1885.