Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-07-13
AN ALIEN INUNDATION.

The Chicago Evening journal once in
n while gets tired out, exhausted As it
were, by the intensity of its hatred of the
democrats, and stops to catch its breath
aud take II rcst. When it does SO it is n
noticeable fact that the cooling off of its
editorial brain invariably results i'll the
appearance in its columns of some article
chuck full of good Thought valuable i'll
formation, and excellent advice. The
subioined editorial from its Monday
issue, ON "An Alien Inundation," is of the
character last described, and should be
read and reflected on 10y every man in the
country. 1t says
Thoughtful mcr who take note of the
so2ial industrial and political conditions
nnd tendencies of the times can not but
entertain grave npprehansIons of the
effect i'll this county, sooner or later, OF
the excessive immigration which, like
constantly swelling flood, ia inundating
the United States with ignorant, depend
ent and undesirable aliens. They come
by hundreds and by thousands weekly.
great shiploRds of them being dumped
upon our shores, like cargoes of mer-
chandise, almost daily, many OF them
moneyless, and nearly all of them depeu-
dent and filled with false ideas and tx-
pectatious as 10 the Haud of promise"
to which they are docking.
The recent announcement that during
the first SIX months of the current year
10000 wretched Italian immigrants alone,
To say nothing of the thousands of other
nationalities, have been landed at New
York is startling, and the supplementary
announcement that thousands of these
miserable people are now wandering
about the city in enforced idleuess and
in 4 condition bordering on starvation is
not Mt all surprising. IL the increase of
ignorant and pRuper Immigration con
tinues in the future IT has during the
past few years, New York will not be the
only city that will be thronged and bur
dened and menaced by this invasion of
the human scum of Europe; the eutiro
country will be numbered by it rs by a
devouring, life sucking oestilence. The
interests of labor will suffer from II and
public and private charity be taxed be
yond endurance. Already the public
charitable institutions of the country are
being burdened with RliSu paupers, and
the jails and prisons are over crowded
by them. Shall we continue to permit
our land to be made the poor-house of
Europe's pauperism, and the looting
ground and prison house of Europe's
criminals? Oar citizens of foreign birth
as we'll as the native born ought to ap-
preciate the urgent necessity of at once
answering this vital question in the mega
tive, all citizens being equally and indi-
vidually interested in at least diminish
ing, rather than increasing, that which
threatens TO become q curse of the most
demoraiizing and runiohs proportions.
This monstrous evil is growing month
by month, year after year, at a dreadful
rate, and yet our public authorities at
Washington are afraid to say or do any
thing toward checking or stopping 1t.
They are afraid of the effect any pro
posed interference might have on "the
party" The politicians of both parties
IN congress are too demsgogical and
oowardly to propose any measure of prac-
ticel legislation to stem the tide While
they cannot but see the formidable danger
that threatens the country's and society's
great interests, and that common patriot.
ism suggests restriction, if not an abso.
lutte suspension, of alien Immigration nj
once, vet, for fear of the foreign vote
they prefer Ito let the country "go tC
the dogs rather than interpose to save
it from .the dogs" 1t is an illustration
of the cowardice of politics and the
timidity of that kind of craftsmanship
whi,h lacks the essential element of pat
riotism.