Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-06-26

remedy. LIE SHghttSt oDSCi fatAoA
shows that at least ni'aety.ffre PEI
cent. perhaps more) Of the lawless
class, which is stirring up this tur-
MOL, are of foreign BIRTH, great
many Of them not having been here
long enough to gain their citizenship.
1t is made up of the most dangerous
portions of European society, who
came to this country thoroughly inn
pregnated with communism, social
ism and every other sort of ism,
which is the outgrowth of the tyr
annical governments of the old
world. With no understanding Of
American civilization, duty and 10y
atty, but thoroughly imbued with
disloyalty and despotism, they avail
themselves of every opportunity and
flock to this country to carry out
their Infamous doctrines. 1t can be
truly said that the nations of Eu-
rope fling open wide, the doors of
their iails, alms-houses, and peniten-
tiaries, and bid their inmates to
seek American shores. America,
besides possessing the proud dis
tinctlon of being "the land of the
free and the home of the brave
possesses also the Humilsatsag distinc-
ton of being the home for the pau
pers, thieves, and cut-throats of Eu-
rope,-the place into which is dump
ed all of the filth that foreign nations
desire to send over; and our great
American eagle flaps its broad wings
over them and bids them welcome.
Every steamer that arrives in port
brings additional recruits to this
dangerous force already here. Some
one has said that it is harder to be
Just than generous, and this appears
to be true of our country. While it
may be perfectly consistent for our
nation to be charitable, to a certain
extent, yet, the consistency of q
charity does not yet appear visible,
which admits outsiders, to the seri-
Gus detriment of the loyal at home,
since, we are wisely informed that
"charity begins at home
IF there ever was time when a
plea against foreign emigration
seems opportune, it does seem that
the time is now upon us. With bust
ness threatened, with our authorities
held in contempt with Most, Spies,
Fielding, Parsons and other Social
list leaders making threatening
speeches and publishing dangerous
literature, with lives imperiled, and
with a serious outbreak liable to oc-
cur at any time, it does seem that
some measures should be resorted to
to suppress this wholesale emigration
from foreign shores. If some speedy
means are not resorted to suppress
this gigantic evil, Anarchy,-itm may
yet give us more trouble than even
the most far-seeing prophet antici-
pates. True, the police or militia
can suppress each outbreak, but like
a cancerous disease, as fast as it is
healed in one place, it breaks out
afresh in another. While they have
been conquered, they are by no
means fully subdued, and, it would
be no surprise to hear at any time,
of another socialistic outbreak, even
more bloody than that which fell to
the lot of Chicago. The way to de-
stroy an evil is to get at the root,
and since European nations contin-
ue to send over Jail birds and peni-
tertiary convicts, it might be adyisi-
BILE, and the height of wisdom to close
our ports against their entrance I'M
til better class seek our hospitality.
America has sufficient to do in look
ing after her oacn paupers and crimi-
nails, without being burdened and
pestered by pauperism and crime. 1t
may be We ry applicable to talk OF
America being the asylum OF the
down trodden and oppressed of every
nation" and as being "the Mecca" to
which all eyes are turned such
talk does very we'll for poetry and
fourth of-July -orations, but, there is
higher principle speaks to the in
terests of oar oaon citizens before we
become so generous in nursing the
criminals and beggars of other coun-
tries. And when the Importation OF
European outcasts shall be suppress
ed, when the embers of Anarchy, So
cialism, and communism shall have
fully died out when our nation shall
have learned to deal truly with home
interests and for the maintenance O.
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