The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-06

VINO comes TO the United states QeliDeratciy IL
order TO better himself as a man. intending to
live and die here, TO rear children, to make
home and to become devoted and loyal citi-
zen, is great national blessing to US, and
should be received with hearty welcome, from
whatever land he may come He IS ych Zft
from the land which sucked. nursed. reared,
fed, protected and trained him until they
handed him over to ready made man.
with two strong hands, clear head ana an
honest heart. hearty wei come 10 MIN,
whether he be Saxon or Celt, Norman, Latin
Slav or Teuton, Let him ply his strong arms
and skilled fingers with all his energy, study
our ways, learn our language be OF us and with
US and We will be for him against the world.
We all concede the value TO the country
of this new conner, for the moment he sets
foot upon our soil he is a source OF wealth
and strength to the nation. The objection
is to the fellow who comes to ccunteract
the good influence of the Industrious, law
abiding foreigners; the fellow who comes,
as Mr.. MCADoo expresses il, seeking tenn
porary relief from grinding poverty, with
intention to return with his gains to the
land of his BIRTH to the fellow who Is
'chased by starvation" to our shores.
But the strong point of the Congress
the high tariff is the direct cause Of the in
crease of undesirable immigration. He
asserts that when we shut out the foreign
goods we bring in the foreign workinen,
the following being his illustration of the
natural effect of the MCKINLEY law in
foreign factory:
Suppose European halloween should to-
day address his assembled employees as fol-
lows: This shop closes tomorrow owing to
tae fact that the MCKINLEY bill has closed our
market in the United States. Next wee
open a similar establishment in New Jersey
ten miles from the landing place in New York.
Any OF you who may emigrate TO America will
be given first preference for employment. Mr..
HURRYEM. our foreman, is agent for the occi-
dental line OF steamers and will give you easy
terms Let every man OF them land in New
York with $ in his pocket and see the result,
in spite OF our most carefully devised restrict
i've immigration laws. Suppose that when they
get to the transp anted mill they find the
American workers on q strike against sweep
ing reduction OF wages: what clause OF the
MCKINLEY bill Will protect these citizens from
being supplantei by the invaders;
Who can question the truth Of this illus
tration. Are the facts as here expressed not
demonstrated every month in the year
Fully three-fourthS OF the hands i'll our
factories are foreigners, AID not few of |
these factories are owned by other than
American citizens. We have made laws !
ostensibly fer the protection OF American !
workmen, and the actual effect of these !
laws is to deprive American workmen of |
wage earning employment and provide |
work for the pauper laborers of Europe. |
Mir. MCADoo's idea ofthe real effect upon |
home industry and the home market OF our,
extravagant protective laws are thus sum- |
married:
We have shut out the cheap foreign watch, |
blanket, tin sheet, glass pane and steel rail- |
but the cheaper foreign worker. hand TO hand |
with hunger. underbids American labor in the /
home market that we boast vas made Tor il /
alone. We have reared around our custom /
house, by our inh b ition of foreign goods. ada
msntine walls high enough 10 stop the free
movement of the winds OF heaven and deep
enough TO shut out natural gas or drinking
water from Canada and Mexico: but around
our inning rant depots. against the great swell
ing tide of immigration, we have strung few
cobweOs,
1t ought to be plain enough to those even
of dull comprehension that our high pro-
tective tariff brings here the very people
which 1t is desirable TO keep out Either
we should repeal those laws, or supplement
them with statutes which would effeclu-
ally close our ports against the people who
come for the purpose of going into active
with those whom we have
egislated to protect. Our immigration
avs are TOO liberal, or our tariff acts tool
narrow. There is a rank inconsistency be-
tween them, and ii doesn't require the
broadcast degree of craftsmanship to note
" therein the inconsistency lies