The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-05-12
HOW ARE YOU TO DO TIP

An esteemed morning contemporary
thinks that the importation of the Euro
pean sewage, from which grows the dis
iurbing influences of the present crisis,
should be at once and completely prohibited.
The Anarchists and Nihilists should find no
refuge here. This is all very we'll, and we
say amen to ii. But how are we going to do
it? That is the question, and 1t is question
that does not seem to have occurred to the
attention of our amiable contem porary,
deeply absorbed as it is in the investigation
of Anarchist disturbances. eff to do were
as easy as to know what 'twere good to do,
chapels had been churches, and poor mems
cottages rich mems palaces" says
"Portia' with the wisdom of her
sex and her subsequent judgeship
combined. 1.-THE know how" as the China
man said, sis the biggest part of the cause of
cost in most cases. 1t is easy to stop the i'm
portation of labor by big monopolies, and
that should be done at once. But these
leaders of mischief, the Mosts and Spieses and
Schwabs, are never of the herd of 'dumb
driven cattle" that labor importers bring
here to take the place of intelligent and re-
spectacle citizens. They come with money
in their pockets, and never work. How are
they to be excluded? Suppose Congress
enacts and every sea-boara State co-operates,
that no Anarchists or NIhilists or Socialists
shall be permitted to land here, and that
every ship bringing them shall be fined 81, coo
a head, what good will it all do?' The
Mosts and their kind are not likely to be
foiled in their purpose to come here
to make mischief by an unwary
admission of their character. They are
taken before an examining board at
Castle Garden, we will say, and searched,
after a most rigid examination under oath,
for any papers that maydisclose their charac
ter or purposes. What will it all amount to
with the only men that it is worth while to
keep out of the country? The herd is moth
ing if it is not set wrong and kept wrong by
such fellows as Spies and Parsons. If it does
not become pauperiZed and burthen on
general industry. it is doing as well as could
be expected. If it does, it is doing no worse
than might be expected When it does
worse the editors and orators who fired the
Anarchist mobs in Chicago and Mil
waukee are the injurious agencies. How
will a Castle Garden examination stop them
from coming here? They can easily destroy
all discriminating papers before landing.
| They can easily deceive the agencies of ship
| ping companies before starting. They can
easily lie about their names, business and
condition. An examination will do no more
good than a cold bath toward providing the
means of discriminating between these
scoundrels and decent immigrants. There is
lust one course that can succeed fully in
excluding this class of villains. That
is to prohibit all immigration whatever
build a wall along the Atlantic seaboard
that no man can pass this way. We are not
ready for that. Honest, industrious, self
supporting immigration is lite less desirable
now than ever. What is to be done with
them? we ask again. We don't know. The
case passes our abilities to deal with it. II
our contemporary had not had its respecta'
Bile head so close to the ground, investigat
ing the malignity and mischief of Anarchist
troubles, it would hardly have suggested the
exclusion of that sort of immigration with
out suggesting the way to do it. When i
looks into the matter again, with its heat
end and the other more nearly on level, i
will see things with rather wider view.