The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-21
We Have Enough.

nunists nihilists and other de-
structionists were OIL one side; law
and order were on the other, Hap
PLY, the local authorities had the
courage and the ability to deal
with the outbreak as 1T deserved,
though IN so doing many noble
lives were sacrificed.
1t will be noted that the tele-
graphic accounts of the riot agree
in stating that the foreign element,
bohenliaas. Poles, Magyarsnx xGers.
mans a1dbther peope ffoAk -
yond the Atlantic were the leaders,
and that the rank and file were
argely recruited fro mthe same
source. An InSpe ton of the
names of parties crested 90 to
sustain this view. This, then,
was IN American riot by non-A-
merl II. s. To call them non-A-
merican workmen Is to insult the
manhood of the American work
man.
We cannot lay the blame for
this outcome of affairs at the door
of European nations. For so loug
have we practiced a let alone pol
icy as to immigration that to-day
the nihllists and communist of ev-
cry elIme looks to America as q
haven of refuge when his native
land will tolerate his lawlessnes-
no longer. A motley crowd of
RS tless, unscrupulous spirits from
Europe land upon our shores each
year, out of sympathy with their
own government, and seeking in
republican America freedom from
all restraint. This they do not
find, and forthwith they antago-
nlze us as they have antagonlzed
their "oppressors" across the At
lantic.
We have even invited this law
less foreign element to America.
rhe arch dynamiter of the age,
who boosted freely In the streets
of New York of the use he was
making of his damnable stuff, was
not disturbed, and in some quar-
ters he was even cneered on In hls
hellish work. Consplring and
plotting agalpat the peace and safe
" CT other nations we have tolek-
ated him; now that his pupils are
beginning to conspire and plot
against the peace and safety of our
own country we rise In surprise
and alarm at the very existence of
so destructivea an element In our
population
Escaping from PRISON In the Old
World, they come to America to
plot again. We have winked ut
this lawlessness when directed
against others; now that it touch
es us we are ready to crush it out.
The s'laissez faire" policy has
brought the natural result: An
enaangering of our very form Of
government.
We have now to contend with
the difficulties which have troubled
thecontinental nations successively
III the hundred years. Germany
is to day wrestling with the prob
lem of socialism, nihilism and
communism with their attendant
evils. America has been meas
urably free to this time; but now
we are entering upon the trouble-
Gus era. We have notlreached the
beginning of the end; Il is farely
the beginning of the beginning.
We need a strong arm in the
government that will say, and say
cmphaticllly, that we have enough
of this restless, unscrupulous for
eign element in our population,
and the contiental NATIONS must
keep their nihilsts and agitat0rs 1t
ho..e, or ship them to other shores
than our own. America seeks
foreign immigration, but it must
not be the foreign destruction5gts
America IL a haven of refnRe ~
the oppressed of all nations, but
not tor the oppressors OF 0ther
nations. We want no communlsts
no dlsorganizer, no wild, shIftless
goddess element, dissatisfied with
/ all government and with all crear
| ton. We desire foreign, immigra-
! tion but 1T must be conservative apd
respectable. The labor demands Of
this country, It's vast undeveloped
resources, afford scope for the em-
ployment of many additional mil
lions of people, but there Is nc
room for the indolent vagahond t.
whom striking is the occupation
and working the upiptorestiDg M
terval. Ftn
1t Is happy fact THAT Amer
lcans are not blind to these dan
! gers, and are deluded by no ylz
, lonary hopes that they may be 4
verted by moral suasion or pleas