Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-02-16
MIR. INGALLS, ON THE FOREIGN LABOR BILL

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MR. INGALLS, ON THE FOREIGN LABOR BILL.
When the bill to prohibit the importation
| of foreign labor was up in tho q. S. Senate
last Friday, MIR. ingalls,, republican, from
| Kansas, said
eve are confronted by a portentous exi-
gency, and shall shortly be required 10 con-
slider whether the doctrines OF the natural
rights of man as applied to this continent
| have not reached dangerous extremity. We
shall be called upon to decide whether every
| man, woman and child on the face OF this
earth, no matter what may be his physical,
| mental, or moral condition, has the natural
| right to come to this country and do as he
pleases and act as he pleases, TO the detrl-
ment, it may be, of those here already.
"Sr, there are 5000 wage.workers, will
ling to labor, out of employment, at this
particular instant Of time IN the United
States. With their dependent women and
children. not less than 100000 people in
all are to day, amid the extraordinary rigors
of an unusually inclemenU winter, suffering
| for the necessaries Of life. They need shell
ter. They are ia want of the clothing that
might be manufactured from the surplus
production of our factories now stored Ill
| warehouses and waiting for purchaser.
| They are in need ofthe corn that is this alter
noon being burned for fuel on the plains OF
| Nebraska, and the wheat that is being fed 10
hogs in the valleys of Kansas. The gravity
of the situation can not be exaggerated. IL
is an alarming paradox. In the midst OF
| copious abundance there is haggard wretch.
edness and starvation. With all the ele
ments OF prosperity around US there is un-
| precedented depression and adversity.
"We are confronted with the inquiry
| whether, under the doctrine of the natural
rights of man, we are not under obligations
as nation to protect our own cltlzens
against dangerous, detrimental, and prejudi-
cial competition forced upon us either BY
| the laudab!e ambition OF those who desire
to better their condition or by the cupidity
of those great employers who arc indiffer-
ent TO the means they employ to swell their
egregious gains.
"Sir, the condition Of society is serious
and demands comment. The nations Of
the earth, under this doctrine of natural
right-the right of every man on the face
of the planet to come TO the United
States If he wants to-have been for
a generation dumping their paupers,
their dangerous and criminal classes
upon our shores, under one pretext and
| another until am we'll nigh persuaded, in
view of recent demonstrations in New
York, in Cincinnati, in Pttsburg, aud Chi.
cago, that the time has come 10 consider
whether it may not be patriotic aud pru-
dent in some degree to modify existing
views as to the significance Of the DeclaTa
| ton Of American Independence end the uni
versal rights of man. hazard nu:hing Of
veracity in saying that ther" are elements
| in this country at work Eow Which vii! re-
uuire, rs said the other dn: il debate upon
| another subject, th> very a1tiS'. coali.iou oi
| the conservative forces OF u"r system il we
desire 20 prevent organic "!a2ge1 i'll our
| form Of government through destructive as
| sa,,ls upon our institutions. upon ci,r
cumulations upon eur Industries, upon
everything that by the grace Of God under
our civilization hiss made America what we
| arc proud to claim it TO be to day.
| THE recent violent demonstrations i'll
various parts of this country forebode Il
perilous crisis, and unless measures are
| taken to protect the American people, to
protect this great civilization that we have
| builded here by education, by religion, by
| the acknowledgment Of the natural rights of
man, within brief space dangers as great
| as those that have overthrown monarchs
and despots may with ruthless rage assail
the institutions of republican freedom.
1.-THE socalistic and agrarian demonstra-
tions that are nightly made in our great
cities must give us pause. War has been
declared upon property. The declaration
| has been openly announced that property
| is robbery aud the open avowals of that
class of men who have been admitted into
this country under the specious application
of the doctrine of the natural rights of man
to 20 whittier he will irrespective of the
purposes for which he migrates, leave little
| room to doubt that in the event of another
great financial crash or panic in this coun-
try, dangerous outbreaks may be expected
in our great commercial centres. Already
appeals are made to the unemployed, men
who have come here under one pretext or
another to better their condition, to COM
mence their assaults upon what they are
pleased to term the unjust accumulations of
our manufacturers and merchants, to secure
what is called in the language of these
apostles of anarchy the forcible distribution
of property, under the doctrine of the natu.
raj right of one man to have just as much
as any other man has.
"The bill calls the attention of the people
to the most formidable danger that threat
ems us, and that is this ceaseless, endless in
cursion of elements that come not for the
Lurpose of building up, of elevating, but for
the purpose of overthrowing and destroy
ing"
A GREAT DiscovERy.-The greatest dis
coyery of the nineteenth century is Or. Les
lies Special Prescription for sick headache,
which is the discovery of an eminent physl-
clan and used by him for over thirty years
before giving it to the public, and it stands