The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-21
INGALLS, ON LYACH|NCS.
A Characteristic Article by the Kan
san on the Situation in
America.
The Country Has Almost Reached
the Stage Which Macauley
Predicted.
Much More OF tho Foreign Element Can
not he Absorbed Sarcasm on
the Times.

out OF the New Orleans lynching. The FOL
lowing nre the salient points:
"The massacre Of the prisoners WEI
ferocious truculent, savage and deplorable
but the blow fell upon its victims, not be-
cause they were Italians. but because the,
we're the incorrigible enemies of social or
der and the safety Of the state. Mob Law
is bad, but some things are worse. Organ
lied and prcmeditated assassination fo
plunder or revenge protected from punish
ment by servile courts and venal juries, il
worse when it is demonstrated that prop
erty, liberty and life are no longer secur,
under ordinary administration OF law
Right of self-preservation remains to o
community as to an individual, and IL
their extemporaneous execution of the Ital
ian outlaws the people of New Orleans had
the sympathy and the open or tacit appro-
baton of the entire country.
"The courts of Judge Lynch are infor-
NAL; they are prompt and inexpensive; they
are the tribunals of last resort, and theil
verdicts are generally just. Fewer inno-
cent men have been hanged or shot BY
mobs in the last century than have per-
ished on the scaffold under due sentence
of law. The action of the Italian govern
ment in recalling. Baron Fava in
advance of judicial inquiry by the
autOrities in Louisiana and demand
ing assurances of reparation and indem-
nifty from the government of the United
States before any liability haa been ascer-
tained was petulant and undignifed. Ig-
norance of methods and centripetal and
centrifugal forces of the constitution in the
Marquis di Rudini might be excused when
it is remembered that SO many of our own
citizens are unfamiliar with the provisions
of our organic Inv, but the suggestion OF
an amendment to the American minister,
if made as reported, was Extensively impert-
inent.
1.-The diplomatic incident is like IN oper-
attic rehearsal, with its cheap hero and its
tawdry chorus. 1t viyidly recalls Gen.
Boum. rs he swaggers. bogRle-eyed, with
rubicund nose and dyed mustache, across
the stage, and declining the rendered court.
esy of a snuff box, discharges his pistol
into the flies and inhales sui lphurous smoke
from the muzzle with convulsive snorts OF
savage satisfaction.
The Italian government is in the;posi.
tlon of q gentleman who, supposing there is
chair behind him, sits down upon the
floor. The spectators are compelled by po-
likeness to express concern, but it is with
difficulty they restrain their mirth. The
marquis can now get up and dust himself
ence with the government of his majesty
the occasion is favor able for MIR. Blaine to
intimate, if permitted by the etiquette of
diplomacy. that from, nation where
brigandage is an established and recog-
nized industry and pauperism an organ
lied institution, this spasm of indigna-
tion is suspiciously inopportune and sug-
gests domestic crisis rather than foreign
complication. He might say, and also
with the applause of the American people,
that the contributions from Italy to our
citizenship are largely undesirable. There
are honorable exceptions, but the bulk of
Italian immigrants would make good
strangers. For centuries we have not been
insisting upon the doctrine Of expatriation
The fathers declared this county was a
refuge of the oppressed. We have all sung
Hail Columbia and Yankee Doodle" and
made every day in the calendar the Fourth
of July, till we find ourselves suddenly con-
fronted with an appalling emergency. The
public domain is practically exhausted and
there are no more free homes on the prai-
ries of the west. The crisis predicted by
Macaulay is upon us, and the assimilating
power of American institutions has appa-
rentiy ceased.
Political equality, universal suff.ace and
unprecedented opportunities for work and
wealth afforded by our system have at
tracted 100000 immigrants to us since
1860. We have crossed the danger line and
every hour increases the peril. An enor-
NOUS majority of our tramps, paupers and
criminals, the tenants of our prisons, asv-
lums and gibbets, our drunkards and fe ON \,
the disturbers and oorruptors of elect ON 4,
marauders, incendiaries, bullies and burg
lars, are of foreign birth, the offal, garbage
and carrion of fallen and fetid races. Pub
lie opinion is aroused as at no other time to
the necessity of limiting immigration and of
SO reforming our naturalization and suffrage
laws as to exclude rigidly this foreign fecu-
lence, to extend the naturalization period to
not less than ten wears and to limit the right
of full suffrage to completed citizenship.
'Ihe leaders of both political parties are
pusillanimous. each fearing the appeal of
demugoRues to the foreign vote should
either advocate u genuine American policy;
but it is one Of the portentious issues Of the
near future. Aside from the moral and
political point Of view, the people perceive
the delusive mookery of the demand for the
protection of American labor while tho
American laborer is subjected to degraded
and dishonorable competition, which re-
duces the wages to Il starvation level and
permits no companionship compatible with
the preservation of self respect.
1--WE are not inhospitable, but Il nation.
like any other host, has u right to select
and invite its own guests. The intelligent.
industrious foreigner, capable of self-sup-
port, who renounces his allegiance because
he loves liberty and aspres to become an
American citizen. will be welcome to break
bread with us and share our salt; but there
is no room at the board for the Malta, the
habitual criminal, the professional pauper
and the follower of the red flag"
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or for El raso.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 2o.-The presi-
Dental party arrived here at nine o'clock
this morning. Notwithstanding heavy