The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-12-01


Evade the Prohsbitfve Tarin on
psupcrA
Down la Castle Garden. this week.
they wore telling me how the Euro
pcan governments evado the prohibltive
tariff on paupcrs aud continue to
smuggie in that sort OF fungi which
eats into our body polite aud saps its
strength. says writer In the Brooklyn
Eogle They used to just sweep them
up give them ticket and dump them
upon our shores as though We were
some old sand beach fitted rs an
emptying place for refuse; and here
they were left to breed more paupcrs.
not to speak Of criminals and lunatics-
Happily. we woke at last TO the danger
OF being inoculated with such deadly
virus and declared no moro paupers
should come In. For q space the
Europeans were nonplused. They
continued to send few rs an expert
ment and discovered that they had
their labor for their pains when these
helpless wretches came back on their
hands II took them a good while 10
get over the difficulty. but they seem
TO have conquered IL at last and this is
their little game: Some continental
statesman took day of in the dull
season 10 work the problem out and
this was his course of reasoning; A
panpcr costs about 81. 900 to keep him
during his probable life. That's a
fair average, though low ono. Now
1t only costs some 800 to send him and
his family to America II he goes
there empty handed. he'll be sent back
TO us, but, II he carries money in his
pocket he can contest tho claim
that no Is pauper and get
through. II we give him $3.50
to carry with him, that is clear
saving Of $3.50 on every pauper. which
tots up something over 50. 500. 600 on
every 5000 we get out OF the country,
to say nothing of their descendants aud
tho room they leave behind for our own
ovcrcrowdcd populations" It's the
the neatest sort Of scheme. this II
does the European statesmen credit
The result Is that there are pouring in
to Castle Garden every week thou
sands OF immigrants q who bring such
small sums W til them. ranging from
500 to $500 This puts them outside
OF the paupcr class, because It furnish
es them ostensible means of support
until they can lind work. But the
leopard can change his spots good
deal easier than pauper can change
his nature. 1t Is in the blood OF most
OF them. an Inheritance of generations
OF insufficient food. OF oppression aud
Encouragement Some few. 1t Is true.
arc only unfortunates. caught in some
hard chance Of the cruel conditions OF
an overcrowded state, and these. with
the breath OF the free air OF America
and the encouragement OF bit OF
money TO mako a fresh start. develop
into self supporting, prosperous and
respectable citizens. But the most OF
them simply spend their small capital
in wild indulgence. and In a month OF
two come down upon US for public sup
port There does not seem just now
any way of preventing 1t, though OF
course there never was scheme de-
viscd by the ingenuity OF man
which tho ingenuity OF man could
not upset For the present however.
the little pauper game goes
on daily. and. indeed. the European
governments have learned to make q
still greater saving by putting them in
TO families of four or five aud giving
only the apparent head Of the family
the 5000 or $500 which will carry them
through. thus saving on family OF
five another $1,000. Meanwhile. the
papers report that tho influx Of Ger.
mans. Italians and Hungarians has in.
creased this year over last by some
per cent 1t seems the English gov
eminent has not yet caught on TO the
little game aud their increase Is not sc
marked. But this explains why the
big roshipmcnts we made last year OF
Continental paupers have not been re-
pealcd this year. and why 1t Is that
apparently better class is coming tc
us Master Workman Powderly |.
justified In his bitter protest against
this business OF unrestricted immigra
ton. and il Is natural enough that tho
American workingman should resent
the apparent Indifference Of our owr
statesmen to the naughty littlo trick,