San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-01
ghe Daily Eight.
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY. I. 1889.
AN IMMIGRATION NOTE.

Immigration committee, the State I'M
migration association, the democratic
politicians of Texas and Others inter-
ested, is cited to the letter of our
special Washington correspondent In
Yesterdays issue of the LIGHT, par
ticularly to the closing paragraph, in
which a western United States sena-
tor expresses himself concerning the
effect of the political outrages at the
south upon the immigration question.
The correspondent says:
"The attention of a western senator
was called to the editorial prediction
of tho LIGHT of the 18th inst. that
"With the advent of the republican
party to power fresh impetus will be
given to southern and particularly
to southwestern immigration" He
said one might as we'll try to change
the current of the gulf stream with a
sieve, as to expect change in the tide
of immigration from the cause given
in the LIGHT. The political outrages
in Washington, Fort Bend and other
Texas counties, he declared, were
checks to immigration that a mere
change of administration cannot re-
move. Northern people have less con-
fidence in southern professions than
they do in southern acts, and the lat
ter, he said, are not inducive to imml-
gration.n
While the LIGHT sees no reason Tor
rewriting it's opinion on the question
of southern immigration, as affected
by the return of the republican party
to power, there is much food for retlec-
ton in the utterance of the western
senator above quoted. There is not
so much difference between the posi-
ton of the LIGHT and that of the sem
ator, as appears upon the surface.
With the advent Of the republican
party will come greater circumspec-
ton on the part of democratic poll
ticians. The outrages which pass UNI
punished under democratic govern
ment and control of the national ad
ministration, will not pass unpunish-
ed with the republican party in pos
session of the government. There
will be a marked change in political
action even In Texas, under repub-
lican administration. The last presi-
Dental campaign brought a new ele-
ment into the field Of politics, pro-
lection wing of the democracy, whose
presence will be felt next campaign
in a thousand ways that were not
possible this campaign just closed.
The defeat of Cleveland was hardly
hoped for, much less expected by
these democrats, who, now that the
change has come, heartily rejoice at
it, and will vote to perpetuate it four
years hence, if the record of the re-
publican party in the tariff question
meets the expectations of relief look
ed for from that quarter. The influx
of northern capital and north
ern ideas into the south is working it's
own change in public sentiment. The
best and most influential journals of
the south, notably the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, has become a warm
advocate of greater justice to the color
ed voter and of fair ballot, looking
to the offset of the negro vote by an
increased white vote, the result OF i'm
migration. There is no doubt that the
Texas outrages in Washington and
Fort Bend counties have prevented
thousands of northern immigrants
from settling in this state, and also
that the republican vote of these coun-
ties was so largely suppressed this
last election as to turn the tide of
victory away from the congressional
nominee for that district, but it is also
true that with republican admins
tration of national affairs there will
be less danger to the republican voter
of these counties, larger fire. edOm
and a greater courage and a more
aggressive political action on the part
of republicans of all classes, and con-
sequently a largerly increased republic
can vote all of which will act as an
inducemont to northern men and
capital to settle and make invest
ments in Texas. No doubt that
this immigration at its best
estate will be greatly restricted
by the unfriendly attitude of the state
towards free ballot and fair count.
and it were we'll for all those who seek
to increase the migration movement
sou Inward to bear this in mind. The
LIGHT is so accustomed to speak for
southwestern Texas, San Antonio be-
ing specifically the metropolis of the
southwestern section, that in speak
ing as it did in the editorial referred to
by its Washington correspondent,
southwest Texas was more particu-
larly meant though not specially de-
signated. The immigration of the
past year into western and southwest
ern Texas has been largely republi-
can, and that immigration will largely