The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-10-17
CITIZENS VS.. ALIENS.

the honest, industrious foreigners who have
migrated to this country because of their
genuine love of its institutions and desire
to share in its grand destiny. The Nation
has no better citizens than most of these
have become. They are intelligent, law
abiding, enterprising, and sincerely devoted
to the best interests of the country. No
native-born citizens excel them in these
respects. Nor did any men fight more gal
lantly for the preservation Of the Govern
ment than they. Better soldiers never
rallied under any banner than the Germans,
Irish, English, Scandinavians French and
Canadians who were found in every Union
regiment.
But different element has been fiocking
into the country of late years. Before the
war voyage TO America was a serious I'M
dertaking-more so than one to Australia or
New Zealand now is. As a rule, the men
and women who came here were above the
average of their class. They were sincere
lovers of freedom, longing TO escape from
tyranny at home; they were energetic, en-
terprising people, DESTROYS of the broader
field of effort and the social elevation
afforded by our country. The revolutions
of 164S sent TO us some Of the very best
blood of Germany in the men and women
who were defeated in their heroic effort for
freedom and popular government All OF
these crossed the sea with the intention of
putting their own land behind them for
ever, and becoming American citizens in the
fullest sense of the word. The broad fields
which they have reduced TO cultivation, the
busy factories which have arisen under their
skilled hands, their numberless graves on
every battlefield where loyalty met treason,
abundantly testify how well they carried
out that intention.
Bat now passage between Europe and
America has become as common and easy as
intercourse between the different States was
before the war. 1t costs even less to cross
the ocean than it does to 90 from New York
to Chicago.
The natural result is that this country
has become the feeding ground Of the adj
venturers of Europe. Our prosperity and
our riches-so dearly purchased by the
blood of our noblest sons, native and natur-
alized-are a temptation 10 the cunning
greedy and INSCRIPTIONS of every land
under the sun. They come here, not to be-
come part of us and share with rs the re-
sponsibilities and duties as well as the bene-
| fits of citizenship, but to feed on the fat0est
Of the land, and leave us the offal. They
want to CLEAN TO the last grain the harvest
which we sowed in sweat Of anguish and
tears Of blood. Having stript our fields IL
the last ear, they win take their fight Il
some other land, leaving us to plant and
tend and guard anew for ourselves and oul
children.
A large portion of these are aliens, Of th,
type which has made their race odioul
wherever civilized men dwell. They ar
the species whose soulless, grinding greco
has inspired the fierce war now being mad,
on them in Germany, Austria and Russia
where they have grasped large portion o
the leading interests, and are using them T.
gorge their own pockets by remorseless ex
tortion and oppression Of the people. As il
those countries, they have gotten hold her
Of large portion Of the press, the bank
and the machinery Of commerce, and ar
using these with relentless vigor for thei
own selfish ends, and TO the great detrimen
of the country. Every great interest in th
land is feeling their malignant inauenc
and complaining bitterly Of il. Every promi
nent business man tells the same story
the injury being done his particular branc
T of industry or trade by the alien Jews an
their alien Gentle coparceners of the sam
INSCRIPTIONS type. They are the heart an
soul of every intrigue to depress the priC
, Of produce, and 10 cramp the money marke
, One business man viii point out how the
, have formed blighting trust TO contr
r some article Of essential importance to b
g business and the country. Another wi
: show that they have syndicate which d.
!. moralizes prices, and robs producers.
q third viii demonstrate that they are ruiz
: ing business in his line, by establishment
d filled with imported operatives employed
r starvation prices. Smuggling, false inyoicin
4 violations Of the contract-labor law, illeg
a combinations against legitimate businei
q disreputable schemes TO manipulate d
. markets are their daily history, aud the
V subsidized papers in the great commercI
!. centers aid and abet their wickedness.
II II is this element-which is even me
p detested in Europe than here-which Ii
p made an unholy alliance with the Copp,
" heads and ex-rebels, for venomons warts
against the soldiers in the direct interest