Workmen's advocate., 1890-06-07
IMMIGRATION.
THE CONGRESSIONAL CON-
 MlTTEE IN CHICAGO.

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 Would Do if they Had their Way.
 A Foreign. Born Agent of M onopoly
 Proposes that American Born
 Socialists be EXiled.
 At a meeting of the Congressional Committee on Immigration in Chicago last week, Hermann Raster, editor of the SddtS Zeitl0ig, was quite emphatic and suggestive in the expression of his views, which acquire additional import ance from the fact that they are unques- tionably those of the Chicago plutocracy, and, we might say, of the plutocracy Throughout the country.
 After stating that of the population of Chicago 70 per cent was either foreign born or the children of foreign born parents; that nine tenths of the immi- grants were people who worked for living and did not speculate; that the Germans were particularly thrifty; in brief, that they were splendid material for the enrichment of those who specu. lated, wasted and did nothing useful from the beginning to the end of their lives, he said that he had detected deterioration in the class of imm- grants during the last five years. Not only there were coming too many Polish, Russian and Roumanian Jews, but the mass was not so tractacle and sub missive.
 When asked what he would recom- mend by way of amending the immigra- tion laws he said:
 Congress should enact law embod- ing in it affirmatively the sovereign right of this Nation to expel from its borders, within five years of their land iag, all persons who make instances of themselves. All the nations of the world, except England and the United States, do this. If the Anarchists had been so kept out there never would have been d Haymarket riot. If keep open house to my friends that does not prevent me from asserting my right to throw any fellow out who comes in drunk and makes a disturbance, The country ought to be able to put out an alien who advo- cates anal chist or socialist doctrines. In cities like thls they are an especial hui. sance."
 "Defne the difference between an An archist and Socialist?' requested MT. Stump.
 ''The Anarchists and Socialists, while apparently in favor of opposite methods, really lap over. Both want to destroy the Government
 But are not the Russian Nihilists striving to obtain republican form of government and are not many of them refined and educated persons?' asked Chairman Owen.
 "Prince Krapotkin is an Anarchist and so is Mr. Shevitch of New York, who is or was one of the nobility, but a Rus slan Anarchist is no better than any other kind. He thinks this Government is as bad as any. He wants to destroy them all. He would destroy for destruc- tion's sake"
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 "He wouldn't be happy till he destroy ed it," finished Mr. Raster.
 'How are you .going to prove that man is an Anarchist" inquired Mir. Lehlbach, who didn't seem to be enthusi- astically in favor of the new alien and sedition bull which MT. Adams intro duced and which Mir. Raster urged.
 That would be little difficult, but in five years they would develop it. Still there are those who were Socialists and wild shriekers years ago who have come over here and, having acquired property, look back on the errors of their youth with kind of smile.
 "The expulsion of these Anarchists would be like an extradition. Habeas corpus would not avail against it, and it would not be by process of law. A United States Commissioner could hear ex parte statements as to So and So hay ing expressed revolutionary sentiments or having committed overt acts and then out would go So and So."
 'Supposing American-born citizens developed revolutionary sentiments, what thenF' asked Chairman Owen.
 "Expel them, too Bismarck drove the Anarchists out when they became troublesome"
 If they are troublesome to us have we a right to throw them on other nationsT' asked Mir. Stump.
 "Why should we be so generous !? They are not so to us. If you pick mp the Vienna papers you will see that such and such persons were ordered to leave the empire. Sometimes there are thirty or forty a month thus exiled. Their names are printed and they have to get out of the empire"
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