The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-22

focking to America in such hordes as |
to cause the native ciiiz ms to dc Some
earnest thinking. Mayor He%zst's
knowledge of the subject entities his
views 10 more weight than is attached
to the words of the ordinary individual.
Hewitt says:
Ny experience in this Office has brought
me to the conclusion that the time has come
when greater restrictions will have to be
imposed upon foreign immigration. They
have been coming here from 60O, 600 to 7OO.-
600 year during the last three years, largely
OF persons who we're unkno .7n in the earlier
immigration of this country. They come
here practically under contract of service
to certain contractors. who bring them out
and undertake 20 sell their labor in the Uni
ted States in competition with the free labor
of the country. This is new and very great
danger. 1t threatens not merely the live
lihocd of American citizens, but it threat
ems the perpetuity of free institutions. AS
the labor of the people is sold in block, SO
tleir votes can be sold They are delivered
at the polls, and where public sentiment Is
greatpaTtles of this country, small contln-
antc can determine which shall possess the
goVernMentof this country.
The menaces which Mr.. Hewitt points
o1t are not mere scarecrows to brighten
| the timid. but are real threats to the
political and industrial well-being of
| the republic. 1t is not an idle allega-
ton to say that the votes Of these peo-
pie can be contracted for and sold as is
doae with their labor. 1t is the case to-
day. 1t has been the case for years.
The manufacturer marches his hun
dreds of employees to the polls and has
them vote as he votes. The contractor
! takes his force from the work and casts
its vote, the same as he directs its
labor. The men in the first place are
4 ignorant of our institutions and devoid
of opinions; and in the second place, II
they are not ignorant and without
opinions, their principles are less to
them than their material welfare.
The class to which Hewitt refers are
not the sturdy, law-abiding, industrious
men from Germany, from England,
from Ireland and from Scandinavia.
These are the men who come here to
live, to create homes for themselves
and their posterity and to become
Amepicanized as soon as possible. The
mayor refers to the creatures who are
brought here from the pauper
cities of continental Europe,
whose passage money is paid
for them and who come virtually
under contract to work for more wages
than they can get at home and less than
are paid here. They are the men with
whom the millionaire mine and mill
owners of the land fight the free and
il telligent laboring men of the country,
forcing the latter to accept low wages Or
lie idle. They are the ignorant Hunea-
rians and filthy Italians who swarm
into the mining AID manufacturing
sections of the country, and by working
for sixty cents a day drive out men who
are earning scarcely eaough to feed
and clothe their families.
The political party which will make
its watchword 1.-The pauper immie ratio1
must cease will be the popular organ
ization, for people will recognize it as
the party beat On the preservation OF
the republic and the protection OF the
American laborer.