The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-01
RESTRICTION DEMANDED.


The results that have followed tn,
lynching OF the eleven Italians at New
Orleans who were charged with beins
accessory to the murder of Chief O
Police Hennessey begin to look serious
So long as they were confined to inso
lent vaporings by their American
countrymen about revenge, and silly
threats of raising an army of I4O. .O0C
Italians in the United States to compel
redress. American citizens looked on
with Indifference if not contempt. But
the scene is changed 1t is no longer
cotteries of blood-thirsty Italians breath
ing out their own shame by condemning
an act which, however much the neces-
sity OF it might be deplored, very gener-
ally met the approval of the very best
people the world over. The Italian gov
ernment, if the dispatches are to be be-
lieyed, has perpetrated an act of open
hostility To the United States bv recall
ing the Italian minister at Washington
who, in turn, has demanded his pass-
all because, forsooth, the king of Italy is
unsatisfied with the progress of the
adjustment, between the two countries
OF the matter relating to the New
Orleans massacre. There is petulent
lmpatience about this act of the Italian
king more befitting the warm blood of
the fiery emperor of Germany. To saw
the least one would have expected more
good sense from King Humbert. The
United States has shown no disposition
to be unfair or to shield wrong doing. if
indeed any wrong was done. There
does not seem to have been any unneces
sary delay on the part of this govern
ment IN the progress of adjustment. To
thousands outside the diplomatic circle
there was really nothing to adjust.
band of murderous cut-throats. had met
a righteous judgment at the hands of
peaceable and honored citizens. whose
only fault was that they did not offer up
the venal jury that acquitted them in
'he same holocaust. So the king gets
mao and we suppose the next move on
the checker board will be to send a mari
OF his vaunted navy over here to demand
indemnity -or something of that kind.
Alarming reports are current of Ameri
can citizens being arrested on Italian
SOIL and retained as hostages. This
is game two can play at If the king
wants indemnity we will gladly give HIM
the whole Malta outfit, while if he per-
slsts in his unreasonable hostility. the
climate OF some parts of this country
may become very unhealthy for ven |
uetta orlgands. Meanwhile this govern
Ahent ls learning lesson from this New !
orleans affair that she will do well to
heed. The gates of Castle Garden have
swung too widely inward for these many
years. The line must be drawn some
where and sometime. We have no use
Tor class of immigrants, whom we can
not punish, when they violate our laws
without getting into row with the
mother country. The man who is not
wiling to assume the responsibilities of
American citizenship with all that that
words implies has no business here. IF
we reject Chinaman because he cannot
De assimilated, we must reject others
lor the same reason. This country has
too long been the dumping ground for
the social ofal of Europe. Politicians
have from time to time placed restriction
pianks in their platforms but the dumps
SILL continue to grow larger, until this
Italian ENHANCEMENT at last demands in
thunder tones that the thing ought to stop
and stop right soon. While the nation
Will always regard with pride every for
eign American citizen who walks worthy
of his citizenship, no matter to what
race ne belongs or what country gave
him birth, we have no use for men who
look to foreign country for protection,
while protesting loyalty to the United
States.