The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-06-25
THE NATIVE AMERICAN
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atlanta Consultation.
New YORK, June 13.-When at the
end of the twentieth century the educated
FIJI islander, the Hottentot from civilized
Africa, aud the travelled Bushman from
Australia, shall climb to the top of the
ruined tower Of the Brooklyn bridge, and
look about them in search of American
antiquities, there will be one they cannot
find on Manhattan island. That will be
native American. The work of eztinc.
ton has already act in, and long before
the end of the next century the race will
have followed in the footsteps of the In
dians to the far west, and without home
or country they can call their own, they
may dream of the happy hunting grounds
to which their fathers journeyed in the
long ago.
Slowly but surely the native American
is being crowded out of New York, and
when the city will no longer hold the
millions that are coming from all the
countries of Europe and Asia, they will
spread out over the adjacent territory,
driving everything before them. While
Congress has been passing laws to protect
Americans from the product Of the pau
per labor Of Europe, no laws have been
passed to protect this country from the
pauper iaborer. While the immense i'm
migration to this country during the past
FIVE years has been the subject Of consid.
erable serious discussion, the unprece-
dented influx Of foreigners during the
first six months of the year is alarming.
The situation is made especially serious
by the recent discovery that it is the GUS
tom of German, Italian aud English
Courts to suspend sentence in the case Of
convicted criminals who will agree to go
to America on the first steamer. Under
the new immigration laws many of these
criminals have already been debarred
from landing and sent back, but it is i'm
possible to discover all of them.
There are now 100000 Italians in and
around New York, and thousands more
are coming every week. Four-ffths Of
those who land at this port, it is estima-
ted, remain in New York or the suburban
towns or cities. The Hebrews now num-
ber 250,OOO, and every steamer from
Hamburg brings hundreds or thousands
more from Russia. Nine-tenths of those
who land here remain in the city, and
they are rapidly crowding the east-side
teuements to sufocation.
There are 100000 Germans and as
many Irishmen, while the natives of 9th.
er foreign countries will foot up at least
100000. As the foreigners come in the
Americans cross over to Brooklyn or 60
to the country.
The native born-working people are
the ones who suffer from this food of i'm.
migration. They are being driven out of
the trades, and will soon be forced to
leave New York or starve. To live like
the average foreign laborer would be lit
tie better than starvation for the Ameri-
can workingman, so it is out Of the ques-
tion to compete with him in prices. The
Italians have a complete monopoly of the
work done by common day laborers. Of
the hundreds of gangs Of laborers to be
seen on the streets every day 80 per cent.
of them are Italians, known only by num-
bers, because they cannot speak or under.
stand English. The typical New York
bootblack lives only in song, drama and
story, because he has been driven out Of
business by Italian competitors.
But the Italians are not all common
laborers. They are crowding into the
trades and arts. Two banks and two daily
newspapers are supported by the italian
population. They are rapidly driving the
French and the Germans out of the
barber-shop business, and their numerous
restaurants and saloon keepers are all we'll
patronized. In everything they under
bid all competition. Their barber shops,
the best of them at least, are the equal of
any in the city in every way, yet shave
only costs 10 cents.
Four thousand trainers, as the best
class of carpenters are called here, have
been on strike since the LIST of May,
greatly delaying all building work. One
would expect to find few Americans
among so many carpenters, but they are
all Germans. at their meetings, where
much socialistic talk is INDUCED in, all
the proceedings are in German, and even
the new contracts they want the Ameri-
ican contractors to sign are printed in
German.
The retail fruit trade here and in most
southern cities is monopolized by the
Italians and Greeks. The Thousands OF
street peddlers who exc out miserable
existence selling all sorts of trinkets, are
all foreigners, and represent almost every
nationality under the sun.
The cooks and walters in all the hotels
and restaurants are all foreign-born, as
we'll as the servants of the rich. None
but English coachmen and footmen are
employed.
Americans are still allowed to vote, but
the city officers and the policemen are
Irishmen, and when there is a vacancy OF
new Office is to be created, another EN-.
igrant sails from Cork. But with their
fondness for Office, the Irish are by all
odds the most desirable class
of immigrants. They make good and
patriotic citizens.
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