The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-20

Shiploads Of people from Ireland are
landing in this country, sent over at the
expense Of the British Government This
is not properly immigration but deporta'
ton. Those who come are sent here b.
cause they are not desirable class to keep
at home. England is glad to get rid oil
them, not because they are primarily
vicious but because they are poor, be-
cause there is no hope under British rule
Of lettering their condition at home,
and in the eye Of the British Govern.
ment poverty OF this kind in Ireland leads
10 the vice OF rebellion against British
authority. These Irish people are, therefore,
being sentenced to exile while they are
merely poor as a sort Of punishment for
what they might be II allowed to remain at
home until they become desperate. And
30 this free land is converted into kind oil
British penal colony, cheap Botonay
Bay for poor Irishmen suspected Of the
crime OF wanting to live.
The passage OF the deported Irishmen Is
paid, and there is au osteutatious show OF
giving them money to start life with in the
new country, but they do not bring
enough with them to establish themselves
in farming or to insure three meals day
and shelter until they can get settled at
work. The British Government Is prac.
Using on the charitable disposition Of the
American people, assuming that we will
not let the exiles starve. And 1t is not
ungenerous to suspect that this assisted
emigration" TO the United States was
happily hit upon as measure
Of punishment to the people OF
this country for the sympathy and
substantial hid we have given to Ireland in
every time Of distress Whether by reason OF
short crops or Scant English justice. 1t
can not be said that we are lacking in
charity or hospitality. No country throws
open it's doors SO wide or takes better care
Of the unfortunate stranger that is within
its gatel But it is an act in the highest
degree uniriendly for England to send US
by the wholesale people who will fall on
somebody's charity before they are able to
stand alone.
1t is not long since the picturesque little
Republic OF Switzerland was shipping US
large assorted lots OF bummers and profess
sional criminals. This called out from Mr..
Secretary Blaine a protest which applies
with equal force to the present situation,
for It matters not what may be the DISPOSE
ton Of the deported 80 long as they are
likely to become charge upon US. Said
the Secretary OF State: "While under the
Constitution and the laws this country Is
open TO the honest and industrious i'm.
migrant, it has no room outside OF It's
prisons OF almhouses for depraved and in
corrigible criminals or hopelessly depend
ent paupers who may have become pest
or a burden or both 10 their own country,
and the sending OF such persons to our
shores by the public authorities OF Swiizer.
land, either local or supreme, cannot be
looked upon by this Government otherwise
than as violation Of our national hospi.
tally and a disregard Of the spirit of
comfy and good neighborhooh, which it
is so desirable to foster and cherish be.
tween two nations bound 80 closely by the
ties Of long and unbroken friendship and
kindred institutions as are the United
States and the Swiss Republics"
Other countries at other times have prac.
ticed the same shrOwdness upon US. II we
have no law to put stop to this, and the
State Department regards the I'm migration
Act as powerless, then 1t Is time we had
one. Ii Is not fair that our people shall be
taxed to pay for British missrule or the
cruel policy al any country.