Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Nev. County, Ark.) 1885-1???, 1891-04-16
WHAT TO DO WITH THEMp

While immigration of reputable
foreigners is most desirable, the time
| has arrived to draw the line at the
scum of the earth, of which the Ital
ian Malta and the anarchists are com
posed.
The experience of the past few
years with these two classes has
brought the question before the coun-
try as presenting one of the gravest
! problems with which legislation must
deal. Unless some decisive meas
ures shall be taken to keep these dan
gerous classes out, the time is not
far distant when the course of the
outraged citizens in New Orleans
will become the approved rule in
dealing with wretches who seek an
asylum in this country the better to
defy and overthrow lawful govern
ment and substitute the dagger and
the pistol of the assassin.
Citizens cannot be made of this
material. In our midst these ele-
ments are constant menace to the
public peace and to republican insti-
tlons. We can control the present
number; but its increase is steady
and alarming, and every year will but
add to the difficulties Of confronting
the peril which any one capable of
reasoning from cause to effect can
now foresec.
What shall we do with these class
e8, aliens by birth, hostile to law
and order, and determined that the
lawlessncss that forced them To leave
Europe shall become part of sys-
ten, and be recognized as a political
and social power in America? IL
New Orleans and in Chicago the
snake was not killed. 1t was only
''scotched;" :" and unless deprived of
the strong food furnished by immi-
grafton to its species will within a
few years prove 4 danger and an
evil only the most summary meas
ures can overcome.
We repeat: What shall we do
with these classes: We may be able
to bear the evils we have, but no one
familiar with the temper of the
American people need be in doubt as
to the disposition that will be made
of them should the law prove impo-
tent to keep them in subsection. The
fate Of the eleven Sicilians in New
Orleans will be that of thousands
of tens Of thousands, if wholesale
slaughter be necessary TO rid our civ
llization of these human hyenas,
wolves and rattlcsnakes.
Such an outcome is horrible to CON
template; but to this it must come if
the llood-gates through which this
dark stream is being constantly
poured on our soil, to poison both
the earth and the air, be not closed
by the strong arm of the law.
1t were folly almost akin to crime
for our legislators to overlook the
peril involved in the unchecked i'm
migration of the most Infamous ele-
ments in Europe, whose mission here
is to establish the lawlessness of the
Anarchist and the oath bound, mur-
derous cOnspiracies of the Sicilan
brigand, as social and political forces.
1t is within the power of Congress
to decide who shall and who shall
not find homes in our country, the
United States. The present immi-
grafton laws are insufficient, They
do not confer that power necessary
to discriminate between the law-abid-
ing and law-defying classes who seek
our shores, And having the power,
it is the supreme duty of Congress to
so change and strengthen the laws
regulating immigration as to effectu-
ally prevent an increase of the miscr-
able elements that contribute to our
population the Malta and the an
archist.
The dread alternative is the en-
thronement of the mob, and slaugh-
ter at wholesale.-[ Arkansas Ga
zettc.
We commend to all young men the
. following very sensible words of the