The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-05-31

Gus inquiry, as to whether the South really
wants immigration.
We are led to nterpose some brief rehec-
tons on the subject There is not the
slightest doubt that the enterprise, or what
ever called, which leads to frantic desire to
have the country fully occupied within the
briefest possible time. to have all its resources
worked, its wealth realized so that within as
few generations as possible we shall be as
thickly peoped as the old world, and as near
ly as possible in the condition of the old
world, is not Southern enterprise. 1t is
thought to be originally Anglo-Norman, and
that stern energy of the ancestral English is
doubtless the staple of the thing, improved by
the American sense of having inherited all
the go-ahead, push ong-keep-moving ele-
ment that has been vouchsafed by an all-wise
creator to mankind. We think the South has
not been endowed with much of it,
and the editor is undoubtedly cor
rect in saying that it probably arises
from no hostility to immigration,
but from indifference, from a failure to think
seriously upon the subject at all. For our
selves we are totally free from anything that
resembles the Yankee incentive for hurrying
up things in the fashion we have described,
that is TO say in order that results may be
realized in wealth, in multiplied and greater
Cities in circles OF millionaires, in splendid
land Of greater affluence, population and
power than any other, losing as we do under
its influence more and more all sight of moral
and spiritual progress, and we would put
away such incentive and give its place to one
grounded in human progress, the exaltstion
Of the great human family. Such incentive
is only to be preferred to the other extreme
to-wit the native American principle of ex-
GLIDING the foreigner from all political
fellowship with Americans, and denying
him every stake in the grand inheritance
of a great people. The rational and proper
motive, as we see it in the light of these re-
Elections, for extending every possible facility,
all practicable encouragement, and the fullest
enjoyment of the national rights and franchises
to foreigners, is to mitigate the hardship
and alleviate the miseries of the children OF
iron fortune, the uncared for sons of toll,
struggling against the political despotism
and the social disabilities consequent on their
condition in their native lands. We would
people our States and Territories with tho Sc
who are denied the comforts and pleasures Of
existences in their own countries, and because
they are denied them. But this we view as
incidental. The great work of America is to
dethrone power in the political and wealth in
the social world, and not build for
them anew, to force the universal
recognition of the sovereignty of man, to so
perfect social science as to widen more and
more its benefcent and humane rule, and
cause it as fast as possible to supersede poll
teal science, to make the sovereign citizen
the monarch of the future all the world over,
and public justice only selfiustice made uni
versal.
In the meantime we take pleasure in urging
'North and South" upon the public atten-
ton. The publisher proposes to furnish it
for 90 cents until January, 1885.