St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

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| The mills idle are the Standard Excelsior.
Union and Zenith, with capacity of 3,40O.
The south side of the Washburn A, whic h
has been idle all spring, started up yesterday,
which adds ], 400 barrels to the output of the
null, that has lately been making about 1910
| barrels daily.
Automatic sprinklers are now being placed
| in the Columbia mill
The Head Millers' association meets to-day
Considerable bark is reported in the can al.
POWDERLX ON EEIMHGRATzON.
The Zig Corporations Bring to
America FOreign-BOru W Dirk men.
The dynamite bombs which exploded in
| Chicago few weeks ago. writes T. V.
Powderly to the New York World, was
heard throughout the United States.
Mingling with its echoes we hear muir
muir of complaint against the foreign-born
workman. The man who, through no fore
sight of his own, happened to be born in
the United States, is congratulating himself
on the fact that his parents, or ancestors,
emigrated in time to prevent him from
being born foreigner. He is being
patted on the back for being an American.
and is told that he is a far ''better man
than his father before him." 1t is evident
that the intention on the part of some is
to align the native and foreign work.
men against each other Jay Gould
in his interview of April so,
1886, said that the workingmen of
this country were under the leader
| ship, for the most part. of \ men
who left their native countries for their
native countries good" Further on in his
interview he said: 1.-The spirit that filed
the streets Of Paris with blood and that
developed outrage and murder to Russian
science, has been Haunting itself freely
along our lines in Missouri, in Kansas, and
| in Illinois. But
| AMERICA IS NOT FRANCE,
and the commune has failed. America is
not Russia, and nihiliSm has not deposed
| those in authority, nor been able to ruin the
| property of those who presumed to disobey.
Barbarity is weed that does not thrive
we'll, transplanted from across the ocean
here. 1t is not to the American taste to
tear down, cripple and destroy. Ameri-
canism leads to development and build
ing up. And Americanism in the end.
depend upon it, is bound to vindicate and
assert ITSELF" The people of foreign birth
who live in the states named are not so de-
sirable as they were at not very remote
period in our country's history. Not a
great while ago we were inviting people
from every land and cline to come to the
United States and stay. We assured them
that there was room for all creation, and
Uncle Sam was rich enough to give us all a
farm" 1t is true that Uncle Sam gave
away great many farms, but he gave them
away in the lump. He did not give them
to the emigrant nor to the native agri-
culturist as literally as
TO THE RAILROADS
and spectators; great many Of the people
who accepted the invitation to come to this
country discovered that the only land they
had access to was that which oozed up be-
tween the cobble-stones on the streets of
our great cities. Some Of the imported
population would not go on the land; others,
not having the means, could not 60. They
| remained in our large trade centers. From
''Moody'S Land and Labor I quote this
paragraph:
In New York city five continuous square
miles of territory may be found upon which
| are crammed not less than 100000 human be-
| ings, sweltering and rotting in their misery,
| and spouting the germs of anarchy and de-
struction. New York is by no means the only
city thus afflicted. 1t is simply pre-eminent.
| The poor foreigners who find themselves
so situated are not to blame for their sur
roundings. Nor are they worse off than
| their American neighbOrs, How do
we manage to import so many who SprOut
| the
GERMS OF ANARCHY
in our large cities, and who flaunt the blood
! spiliing spirit along the railways Of Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Illinois? Let me repeat
the language of one of the Chicago bomb
throwers as l find it in the Chicago News:
1.-THE man said he could not understand why
| it is that men could not do as they think best.
He had come to this country because the
| agent who had told him to emigrate had PROM
| ised him he would come to a free country. He
had come here with the idea that the country
| was free one, in which man could do what
| he pleased
The question which naturally suggests it,
| self to the mind OF the reader is: Who sent
the agent over to Europe to induce this
''blood-spilling spirit to come to the
| United States? Let me answer him by quot
| ing some extracts from Jay Gould's testi-
committee Dec. IA, 1882, and reported in
the New York Tribune of the following
| day:
| Q.-You stated that speculation promoted
| immigration. How does it do this?
Gould-It induces the construction of rail-
\ roads into new territory, and that induces the
roads to send abroad to get Immigrants to
| settle the lands.
| Q. To what extent have you Influenced
| immigration.
Gould-Thats impossible to tell. We are
| advertising In all the lands abroad. The i'm
| migrants come and may go on our lands or
elsewhere. When I was in Europe you
| couldn't go anywhere but you saw agents of
| American land grant companies.
| Mr.. Gould then explained the methods
| practiced by the companies and their agents
| to induce emigration from Europe. Among
the roads mentioned by him as having
agents in Europe were the Missouri. Kan
sas & Texas and the st. Louis & Iron
| Mountain railways.
The presence of so many ''blood-spilline''
| spirits from Europe along the lines of the
| Gould system, and in Chicago, which is
elsewhere" is now accounted for. IT is
evident that great deal of deception Is
practised on the alien workman in order to
| induce him to come to America. The sys-
tenn which tolerates ''the agent" will not
counsel him to adhere strictly to the truth
| when he is portraying to the. Imagination of
/ the European the beauties of our American
institutions. If it suits his purpose to ex-
plain how easily things can be revolutionized
| in America rest assured he will not AL
low the still, small voice of conscience to
| influence him. The foreign-born workman
is a good fellow, and there is a welcome
for him in the land of the free so long as
he is content to work for less money than
his American brother. just as soon. how
ever. as he learns the way of the country it
is discovered by such men as send agents
abroad that he is not such desirable ac-
QUESTION to our population after all. If
such men would but cast aside the thin
veil of hypocrisy and speak with candor
| they would acknowledge the above to be
true.
TwO-FACED AMERICANS.
1t is no credit to us as people to have
among us a class that pirates so much about
love of country, '.Americanisms. and
''American-born cltizen,'' etc., and at the
same time be engaged in the nefarious busi-
ness of inducing people by lying and decep-