Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-10-25
TIE TRUE AMERICAN DOCTRINE.


The sacramento Record. Union says:
The San Francisco Report says that as
people we believe IN the Bible
statement that from those that have
not shall be taken away-even the
right to come TO this free country
No one has the fright" 10 come to
this "free country" What our con-
tempory reads as "a right is simply
a privilege. The Report further says;
"The views of the American people
are a little peculiar on the subject cf
pauper Immigration. In theory, this
country is the asylum of The down
trodden and oppressed OF all nations.
those whom the governments OF
Europe have reduced to penury can
come hither and find land of freedom,
where one man Is as good as another.
Such is theory. In reality, we very
much prefer the immigration of those
who are not too much down trodden
and oppressed. We don't want the
poor ones; we don't want those who
have been sunk to the greatest depths.
We want those who have been able TO
save up a little store of coin, which
they can bring with them to increase
the wealth of this glorious Republic"
We are willing to accept the defense,
in the main, of this view of the
"reality" as agains, the theory
Probably the Report agrees with us
that no one is able 10 show by any line
or syllable Of our laws, or by any letter
of our organic Acl, or by the spirit in
which the Republic was founded, that
the United States is the asylum, OF
right, of the down.trodden and
oppressed of all nations. 1t has been
favorile sentimental notion of rostrum
statesmen; platitudinous stream Of
gusD ON the part of red white and
Llue' orators, and all that; but there
Is nothing to justify this hospital
doctrine. This Government, from its
inception, has permitted entry into its
confines on the part of foreigners, but
has never, by act or word, conceded the
fright" 10 exist in anyone to come IN,
In the earlier years of the Republic
because of its need for population, the
people were careless OF the comers-in
but the priceless heritage we possess
should, now that the need is no longer
pressing, make us careful of whom we
invite to sit al our hearthstone. The re
has been no objection raised TO the
entry of the poor man simply because
be is poor in worldly goods, but the
voice OF the nation is rightly being
lifted against the attempt to dump upon
our shores the aged mendlcants. the
pa,lper hacks and broken down anu
valueless men and women of the back
alleys of Europe, TO be supported by
taxation levied upon industrious
Americans. Very true, we prefer thu
men with some means: who will vent
| ure to doubt the wisdom of the prefer
ence, Tue oppressed under monarch
les will indeed ind u refuge here, and
have hearty welcome, but let no ont
| run away with the idea that by 9TH,
oppressed" is meant The rakings o
| European hospitals, refugees and poor
houses. This people have now enough
to do to cure the miseries of HON,
Isappers; to care for the Athlete,
raaa ~. at their doors; to house ant
~. ~. and blind and LAM
upon US. When Americ,". 49, ;.
The Sister. of Mercy business as
ton, it will be time enough to han
bout sign upon the walls of our port,
: free hospital" When, therefore, Mr.
Blaine said the other day to the peopl
OF Michigan that while he was glad t.
welcome the well-todo immlgran
from Europe, he deprecated III
assisted immigration of irans.ailan
tic paupers and criminals, his word,
found an echo in the American heart
There is no Inconsistency, as the Repor
assumes, in the position. On th,
contrary, the Inconsistency, it thinks
il finds between The theory and tn,
practice of our people, Is only possibl,
upon false assumption of The theory
being American doctrine, and The
untenabe position that refuge for the
oppressed means the support by ON
people OF The mIserables of Europe.