St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-20

their recent acts of violence. These
disorderly persons do not come here to
uphold and maintain our form of gov
eminent. Their object and purpose is
to destroy and tear it to pieces. They
hold any law in contempt which does
not meet with their individual appro-
baton, and believe disobedience to it is
perfectly juStifiable. This class of per-
sons, in the Judgment of the committee,
ought to be rigidly excluded from enter
ing this country. Generally speaking,
the class of immigrants who have lately
been imported and employed IN
the coal regions of this country
are not such, in the opinion OF the
committee, as would make desirable
inhabitants of the United States. They
are of very low order of intelligence.
They do not come here with the in
tention of becoming citizens, their whole
purpose being to accumulate by par
SimOniOus, rigid and unhealthy economy
a sum of money, and then return to
their native land. They live in misera-
BILE sheds like beasts; the food they
eat is so meager, scant, unWhUleSome
and revolving that it would nauseate
and
DISGUST AN AMERICAN WORKMAN.
and he would find it difficult to sustain
life upon it. Their habits are vicious,
their customs are disgusting, and the
effect of their presence here upon our
social condition is to be deplored. They
have not the Influences as we under
stand them, of home; they do not
know what the word means; and, in the
opinion OF the committee, no amount of
effort would improve their morals or
"AmericaniZe" this class of immigrants.
They have been brought here in such
numbers and have been employed at
such low wages, that it has resulted in
their replacing the American citizen
who formerly performed this class of
labor, until now there are comparatively
few Americans engaged in mining coal
in Pennsylvania. The agents of steam
ship companies in portions of Europe
have been active in inducing. encourag-
ing and stimulating immigration to this
country through false representations.
The report condemns the practice
which has prevailed among certain for
eigners resident in this country of i'm
porting men for the purpose of con-
tracing them on railroad work and
keeping them in state of almost alb
ject slavery. Reference is also made to
laborers, it being shown that
about 800 Canadian carpenters
daily labor in Detroit, while
the same number of Americans lie idle
for lack of employment. In conclusion
the committee says: "Certainly the
effect of the present unrestricted sys-
TEN of Immigration. as applicable to the
conditions under consideration upon the
industrial situation of this country, has
been very bad, and the committee be-
lieve that the time has come when the
immigration tax should be more eff
fectively regulated; that persons who
immigrate to the United States should
at least be composed of those who in
good faith desire to become it's citizens
and
ARE WORTHY To BE SUCH"
Mr.. Spinola does not agree with the
majority of the committee in regard to
either the report submitted Or the bill
presented. In minority report he
states that he is opposed to a head tax
of more than 81 for each immigrant. be-
lieviDg this sum to be sufficient to meet
all the required expenses necessary to
conduct the department of immigration.
MIR. Spinola says the minority is pre-
pared to go to any length in advocacy of
proper measure in order to shut out
paupers, lunatics, idiots, cripples,
and thieves as we'll as all evil-doers,
who come here to practice their wicked
ness and fill our poor houses and
prisons, but declares unqualified
opposition to the passage of any
law that will in any way check or stop
the influx of honest immigration, be-
lieving that our happy and prosperous
country will in the future, as in the
past, continue to receive with open
arms every industrious, honest man
who may seek a home among US for the
purpose of improving and benefting
his condition of life, whether such
conner may have 81 or S1,00O,O00. $50