Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-05-15
TOO MANY PEOPLE.

There is much trouble at the present
time between labor and capital, and
throughout the entire country riots, in
cendiarism and other lawless acts are
being committed almost daily. Many
people will not stop to consider what is
actually the cause of all this trouble,
but will at once attribute it to low
wages and the desire on the part of cap.
italists to grind the laboring people
down to abject slavery. This is the
way it looks at the first glance, and the
way it really is to a certain extent, but
what is the prime causea Simply this.
There are now in this country one hum
bred men for every job, and still more
are arriving daily from foreign shores.
1t is not the American laboring class Of
people that is the cause of all the
strikes that have lately occurred, but it
is the class that comes from abroad and
tries to push our own laborers out of
the field. This class comes from where
labor is cheap and living expensive,
and seeks 10 bring about the same
state of affairs in this country. They
travel about this country in search OF
work, and being unable to obtain it Of
fer to take some mans place for less
wages than the company is paying him.
They are taken in, and in a short time
along come other foreigners, more re-
cent arrivals, who offer to perform the
same labor for still lower price. They
are taken in, and SO it goes. When
wages get SO low that men cannot live
on their earnings, then a strike is order
ed. The capitalists are in measure
to blame, in that they do not adopt a
fair standard of wages and not allow
this standard to be lowered or raised.
BY fair standard we mean fair days
wages for fair days labor. But, to
come to the true cause. The country is
already over. crowded with these people
from Poland, England, Ireland, Russia
and Asia. Every man who lands on
our shores with the intention Of seeking
employment, lessons the chances Of
those who are already here, for getting
work Just SO much more. With this
state of affairs, and an increasing i'm
migration, it will be but short time
before our beloved country will be no
longer the land of the free and the
home of the brave. Already there is a
large socialistic element here and they
are teaching the discontinued the use of
dynamite, internal machines and the
torch and asSassin's knife. 1t is our
belief, however, that Americans will
soon begin to understand the situation
and rise in their might and demand the
right to govern their own country. If
they do not do it continual strife and
turmoil will be the result. There is
but one way to accomplish the desired
result-by the bollot box. If the Peo-
pie do not take the matter in hand soon
the foreigners will outrank us in our
own country and then there will be no
possible way to keep them from ruling
the roost. We are aware that the un-
dertaking is great one, that it will
necessitate the amending of the Consti-
tuition and other important measures,
but patriotic hearts should at once step
to the front. The change could hardly
take place in our time, but the benefit
would fall on the generations to come.
Many arguments in favor OF the stop
page of foreign immigration can be set
forth, Of which the most striking at the
present time is the labor troubles that
for the past two months have been &C.
curing all over the country.