Evening journal., 1890-03-21
lMMIeRATloN AgsrRIcrIoN.
Editor Rosewater Protests Against Ser
ator RitcheII's Riif.

ator MttcheIIfs Riii.
WASHINGTON, March 81 The senate and
house committees on immigration met IN
joint session and heard protests against the
passage of any laws restricting foreign i'm.
migration Edward Rosewater, editor and
proprietor Of The Omaha Bee, made the
first address He stated that he represented
a number of German societies and societies
OF other nationalities in the west AT the
present time, he said, the ratio Of immigra'
tion was on the decrease Since ls2' lthirty.
three years ngol O639. .635 immigrants had
landed at the port OF New York. Inc time
had not yet come, he believed, when imlni-
grafton should be restricted This beiiet IN
pride Of national birth, he believed to be a
survival Of barharatic fanaticism The
panper laborers transplanted on TINS side OF
the ocean were generally supposed to inJure
the interests Of our laboring people. This,
be contended was not 50. When the pauper
laborers came 10 this country their condition
became better Their wants We're greater
and they consequently became greater con-
sumers
The native Americans had given up the
heavier kinds Of labor, and these immi-
grants were needed to take their places
The Americans who worked on the streets
few. There had been a great deal said
about the Italians In this country. Mr.
Rosewater said that he for one had a tender
feeling for Italy Christopher Columbus,
the discoverer Of America, was an italian
and the Italians were skilled In the arts and
sciences hundreds Of years before America
had been thought Of Under Senator Mitch
ellis immigration bill, persons differing
from the popular democratic idea would be
prohibited coming to this country. Persons
who believed that there was something
wrong with the machinery of governments
were classed as Socialists Senator Mitch
ellis bill would prohibit their immigration
TO America. Yet Edward Bellamy and
Henry George, who were rank Socialists,
were allowed TO live here and distribute
their books about the country He believed
that the present laws were adequate for the
exclusion OF undesirable immigrants.
Richard Bartholdi, editor Of The 81 Louis
| Tribune, read to the committee protest to
congress from conference Of German
American societies. The protest cited that
the societies respectfully, but most earn
estly, object to and demonstrate against the
passage of any aud all Of the measures now
before your honorable body designed to
materially change the present national laws
/ of immigration and naturalization
| Mr.. Celso Cmsar Moreno, an Italian by
birth, but prominent citizen Of Washing
| ton, said that tho Italian immigrants would
be an excellent acquisition for America II
| they could come free from the cruel padrone
system that brings them TO this country
| through false representations with, as he
asserted, the completely Of the Italian min
listers and consnls ia the United States who
divide the spoils that grow out Of the traffic.
| The Italians, be said, who come here are in
telligent. hard working and lawabiding cit
liens but as slaves they are not what they
ought 70 be, and the sooner this slave trade
ID stopped the better, because 1t is burning
shame for the United States and Italy and
an insult 10 this age Of progress and liberty.
| The Italian consulate in New York city, he
said, was the headquarters OF the nefarioui
traffic ia human flesh.