The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30


L. That immigration to this nation
shall be regulated. 1 do not believe In
the spirit of Know Nothingism. Amer
loa is the home of the free, the asylum
OF the oppressed. Our doors should
swing wide open to the hberty-loving
of the world. Instead of swinging
open the doors, however, we have
knocked the end of the house out.
We have opened the floodgates, and
the sewers of Europe have poured in
upon us the pestilence-breeding refuse
of the old world. There is a limit to
the possibilities of national endurance
at this point. Our salvation depends
upon our ability to assimilate the
foreign element which enters our
national life. Hitherto we have done
this. OF late, the enormous numbers
pouring in upon us have made it i'm
possible to assimilate the material as
rapidly as it has come, with our pres
ent methods.
These methodsmust be changed. We
must draw the line at the port of New
York and every American port more
strictly than ever before. Paupers
and criminals and elements that r
destructive of the life of society and
irr~econcilable to honesty, integrity,
truth and freedom must be eliminated.
If we do not take this matter in hand,
and that vigorously, New Orleans will
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that will be waged, sooner or later, in
every centre of American life. Shall
we regulate this unruly element in the
hold of the emigrant ship, or shall we
regulate it with muskets and HOtch-
kiss guns in the streets of our cities?
The time is now come when the Amer1-
can people must answer this question.
It is a vital question. 1t is real ques-
ton. It clamOrs for an answer to-day.
NATURALIZATION LAWS MUST BE AMENDED
3. Our naturalization laws must be
amended add perfected until natural
izatiOn will mean something. AT pres
ent the process of naturalization, In
fact the whole question of naturaliza-
ton in America is in a state of chaos.
The Italian thugs who had been ter
rOrizing New Orleans were found to be
subjects of the King of Italy, though
they had been voting for years in the
State and municipal elections in Louisi-
ana. There is no doubt but that hun
dreds and thousands of men who are
not citizens vote in every election in
our great cities. The purity of the
ballot is the only hope of a permanent
national life.
EDUCATION THE FOUNDATION OF THE
NATION.
3. We must recognize the fact that
education is the foundation of this
nations life. Therefore the rising
generation should be educated in the
language of the American Constitu-
ton. They should be taught the spirit
of the American nation, and in the
language of the men who fought at
Bunker Hill and Kings Mountain, and
and who carved out in the Wilderness
this great nation. The time has come
when the question of public common
| school education is a national issue of
tremendous import. The time has
come when, as a nation, we must re-
quire the coming citizens of the nation
to prepare themselves for the exercises
of the privileges of citizenship.
HIGH TREASON.
There are hundreds and thousands
of schools now in operation in certain
Western States, where the ideal of
Herr Cahensly is literally being carried
out. The English language has been
driven from the curriculum. They have
foreign teachers, foreign textbooks.
Children are born and grow to man
hood in public schools that usurp the
functions of public education, that do
not understand the English language.
This is nothing short of high treason.
Simply because the nations defence is
not in cannon or muskets or navies,
but in the free brains Of free boys.
BURN THE BRIDGES BEHIND THEM.
The time has come when we should
require that foreigners who come to
America shall burn the bridges behind
them. If they love their native land
better than the land of their adoption,
let them go back to their native land
and serve whom they love. There is
no room on this continent for Italians
as Italians, for Germans as Germans,
for Frenchmen as Frenchmen, or any
other nationality that intends to set up
business for itself. The men who en-
Joy the liberty of this Republic should
serve the Republic. If they are not
willing to do it, they must be made to
do 1T or get out of it.
Ut RIGHT TO A NATIONAL F
We would give the widest invitation
to all true men to come-the widest
freedom we would accord when they
come. W. would give them freedom
and fraternal greeting without preju-
dice. But In the same of the sacred
dead, in the name of the blood of a half
million heroes who have made the
glorious record of the past, we claim
the right to a national life. The time
has come to assert it.
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