The Critic and record., 1891-03-28
CURRENT PRESS OPINION.
The Vicious Foreign Element.
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The Vicious Foreign Element.
From me ST. L0uis GLOBE DB0crdf.
The recent deploiablc episode in New
orleans is serving the good purpose of di-
rccting attention to the necessity for
radical improvement Of our immigration
laws. We are having undesirable and
dangerous persons unloadcd upon us by
foreign nations at q rate that calls for
prompt and vigorous interference I'm the
interest Of public safety ana prosperity.
The vessels now arriving from Europe
are bringing throngs OF immigrants that
are likely to do us far more harm than
good. During the week ending on the
llth instant the number Of such arrivals
was nearly 1000 mostly Italians, Huns
and Russians; and the increase for the
year SO far has been thirty per cent over
the figures for the corresponding period
of last year.
The total for lSN0 was about $4,000 and
the aggregate for 1901 will probably reach
100000 Many Of these people come here
To- escape the penalties of criminal o1fcnscs
in their native countries others are prac-
tiCally sent here because of their known
vicious and troublesome nature, and still
others are thrust of because of their pow
erty and physical ailments. Most of
them congrcgate in the cities and live
Clannish life, neither knowing nor caring
anything about the institutions of our
country. In Chicago, for instance, over
One-half of the votes are cast by natural
lied citizens, and the same is true, rcla-
lively, of all the other large cities.
a Thousand Millions.
From he Paii0deiphid Times.
The expenditures Of the last Congress
aggregate over S1,0OO,OOOOOO. Not only
Tas the Treasury surplus been scattered
but with increased taxes on most of the
necessarics of business and of life, and
with forced loan of over fifty millions
from q sacred trust for the redemption of
bank notes, the Treasury is now certain
to present deficit of from iiyty to eighty
millions at the close of the coming fiscal
year.
When It is considered that the expendi.
lures of the last Congress exceed the
entire expenditures Of the first half CEN
fury of the Government, including the
cost of the second war with England and
that the entire expenditures Of the nation
when Mr.. Lincoln became President did
not exceed 100000, 900 year. or Si20,000.-
GOO by each Congress, the full measure of
the bcwildering prUhigacy of the last Con-
gress may be appreciated. Think of a
single Congress at the close of n century
of free government cxpendng more than
the entire public expenditure during the
hAot ihhiL VI AhN NNllNhl lilt IN
ceptional cost Of protracted war with
England.
But the last Congress was not content
with the expenditure of thousand mil
lions. In addition to that appalling waste
of public money II loaded the nation with
another thousand millions of debt that
must be paid IN shape of future pensions,
subsidies, bounties, etc. The true record
of the last Congress is, therefore, one
thousand millions actually appropriated
for immediate expenditure and another
thousand millions of debt loaded upon
future Congresses in addition to the legiti-
mate expenses of the Government.
Indiana and Massachusetts, Chance.
Ffop ne MeiHIhis Appedl- AyalaRcdo.
If President Harrison shall conclude to
honor the requisition of the negroes and
appoint one of them member of the new
Appellate Court, il would be nothing more
than fair that he should select the circuit
in which his own State of Indiana is in
cluded. The States embraced in that cir
cult are Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
liy doing this he would of course, make
things very pleasant for his old friend,
Judge Gresham.
If Mr.. Harrison is indsposed to favor
his home circuit, the next best thing for
him to do is to favor the New England
circuit that includes Massachusetts. This
would, doubtless, be regarded as boon by
Hon Henry Cabot Lodge, the author of
the Federal Elections bill, who should
welcome a negro judge to the courts of
Massachusetts,, and who should feel when
trying cases before him that the world was
coming round about right.
An Ohio Compliment to Nichols.
From ne Cincinnati Commercial gazette.
Credit is due the Governor of Louisiana
for his Strange omission, in replying to
Mr.. Blaine's dispatch concerning the
massacre Of Italians on the nth inst. to
make one of the accustomed powerful
references to the peculiar sovereignty of
Southern and a multiplying State. The
Governor neglected an opportunity that
must have been a temptation, to humble
the Government of the United States with
his dashing rhetoric. 1t is so peculiarly
strong in Louisiana to assert herself vs.
sovereign power superior to the nation
that Democratic Governor who neglects
chance to do it and to rebuke the Sccre-
tary of State at the same time may be
considered to have sacrificed himself
We purchased Louisiana, paying cash for
the soil to the French. Then 1t was de.
Tended from the British, who had an ap-
petite for the mouth of the Mississippi
and it was conquered from the Southern
Confederacy. All these events, to say
nothing of the leyee appropriations, show
the special supremacy Of the locality
and the sacred superiority Of the part over
the whole-and the Governor did not
mention ii.