The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-04
NOT WANTED.

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a sentiment. We say that we oper
O III arms to the poor and oppressed
of all the world, and welcome then
to this land of the free and home Of
the brave--but we don't. The
Cinnamon are poor and oppressed
but they are not welcomed. The
communists are poor and oppressed
yet who wants them to come here
The truth is, America doesn't vel.
come anybody, and doesn't want
anybody to come to her shores, who
will not become good citizen, and
earn his own living. The United
States is not poor-house for the
world, nor is it an asylum for the
cranks aud criminals of other ma
tiOns; that is to say, it should not
be poor-house or an asylum, what
ever may be asserted to the con-
trary by sentimentalists and too
generous patriots.
England is just now taking us at
our word, and sending hosts of pau
pers to this country. The British
government pays their passage
across the] water, and IS glad to
get rid of them, the cost being less
to her than taking care of them at
home. Some of these assisted
immigrants" are Well-disposed, and
will go to work in earnest to better
their condition and make a success
of life, which has always been a
failure at home; while others are
criminal in their instincts and dan
gerous to the communities where
they may locate, if not to the coun-
try at large. England is we'll rid
Of them and the United States would
make money if it could only
keep them moving on, paying their
passage to the North Pole, where
their laziness would mean starva- |
ton and their plotting against
governments and laws would have |
little effect upon icebergs and polar
bears. There is room in America
or millions Of immigrants, but the
country is not large enough for the
loafing, discontinued mobs
hat England is sending over here
o continue their lives of sloth-
illness and penury. The
hrifty, ambitious immigrant
Who is ready and willing to
i'd to the material wealth of the
while he increases his own
prosperity, is welcome; but the
lrones and psupers are not.
The British government, in send
ng it's paupers to this country, is
My doing what other natl ons have
lone fol many years, although Eng
and, has not heretofore been guilty
If the ungenerons, if not disreputa-
lie course. Some of her subjects,
lowever, have not been above i'm
posing upon America in this man
Ter. Some years ago the Marquis
If Landsdowne found his Irish es
;ates crowded with paupers for
whom he was bound to provide
n some way. He had an agent, W.
Stewart French, who undertook to
get rid of che incumbrance and thus
Increase the profits from the estate.
French gives the following account
If his operations:
The remedy proposed vas ~ fol-
oWs:-ThRt the marquis should forth.
With offer free emigration to every man,
woman and child in the poorhousa or re-
,eiving relief. and chargeable to his
estate. That had been in communities
ion with an emigration agent, who had
offered to contract to taks them to what
,yer part Of America each pleased at d
reasonable rate per head. That even
they ell accepted this offer, the
otal, together with ANAL sum per
head for outfit and few shillings on
landing, would not exceed from ga 900
10 Gl5, 600, sum less than il would cost
10 support them in the workhouse Tor a
single year. That in the one case he
would not only free his estate ofthis mass
Of pauperism, which his late agent had
allowed to accumulate upon t,blt would |
put the people themselves in far better
way OF earning their breSd hereafter;
whereas by feeding and retaining them |
where they were, they must remain as a |
milestone around the neck of his estate, /
and prevent its rise for many years to |
come; and plainly proved that it would |
be chesper to him, and far better for |
them, to pay for their emigration ut |
once, than to continue TO support them |
at home, shall not readily forget the |
scenes that occurred in Kenmare when I |
returned and announced that / was
. epared ct Lord Landowner ex-
pense, TO Eend to America every one
now in the poorhouse who was charge
able to his lordship's estate, and who
desired to 60, leaving to each to select
what port in America he pleased, whether
Boston, New York, New Orleans or
Quebec. The mode adopted was as fol-
lews:-Two hundred each week were SEE
lected Of those apparently most suited
for emisration; and having arranged
their slender outfit, steady man on
whom / could depend, Mr.. Jeremiah
O'Shea, was employed to take charge of