Evening journal., 1889-04-17
AMERICA FoR AMERICANS.
Carrie Lane Chapman Paints a True Pic
ture Showing the Effects of Unrestricted
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AilNalEratton.
Carrie Lane Chapman lectured at the
Builders Exchange last evening on
America for Americans. The lecture
was under the auspices of Eureka Coun-
Gil, Junior Order United American Me
chanics. Musical selections were rem
dered by Miss May Whann.
Miss Chapman sof Charles City, Iowa.
She was formerly writer on San Fran
cisco paper, where she gained great
deal Of experience She has full, mus
ical voice and good presence, carrying
the attention of the audience through all
her remarks.
She gave a brief history Of the growth
of this country and its characteristics
when the government was founded. "Ihe
American people combined the sturdiness
of the English, the plodding determination
of the German, the quick wit of the Irish
and the politeness of the French. The
achievements of the American race have
been the wonder of all countries. After
the war in which she gained her freedom
her characteristics became more marked.
Year after year has shown how carefully
she was organized Immigration set in.
America gave a solution to all questions
of humanitarian.
yet instead of taking Europes good
citizens the United States became an
asylum for the poor and corrupt They
came and are poisoning her purity and
life. Other countries became free of
hardened criminals, America received
them. There are of course immigrants
whom we gladly welcome, but of the
500, 900 persons who annually come to
this country very few come with am
bition to succeed honestly. America is
to day supporting a larger number Of
these non productive persons than any
other country But, come who will, the
gates are open wide and the flood of
foreigners sweeps over the country
When they come to this country they
form unions for the protection Of labor
against capital. Trades unions are very
good in their way, but they are nearly
always made up Of foreigners There is
little show for the American boy or
the American girl. What, though we
boast Of our American liberty, our great
resources, for the American boy is pushed
to the wall and the American girls forced
to lives of shame because they cannot
earn an honest living
"Why is it? Because capital cannot
put into use the great amount of labor,
because we are flooded with foreigners.
These aliens are allowed to vote almost
as soon as they land They are taken up
by the ward politician and their votes
bought. Schemes are continually being
Matched to catch the vote Of the foreigner
but never to catch the vote of the Ameri-
can. What we need are honest politicians
who love America. Now we have in our
midst all classes of foreigners who in
their old countries were criminals. These
problems come 20 us, what can we do
with them2
1T would be hard to stop immigration
We can at least deny them the preroga-
tives of citizenship. We as Americans
are interested in revision of the
naturalization laws which are used so
basely Even foreigners say we should
restrict immigration for they know the
causes that bring SO many persons here
America stands to-day chief of all the
nations of the world; let us keep out
poor and corrupt foreigners that size may
be for Americans. and for them oulym