Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
FROM DER THE SEA
English Working Glasses Want
immigration Restricted.
POLISH AND RUSSIAN LABOR
Driving the English Working Men Out
of the Market-Sensstional Disclos-
ures in the Panama Scandal,

LoSDoS, Nov, 20. - Considerable
alarm has been created among English
working people by the report that the
United States is about TO pass law
stopping immigration altogether. 1t 10
feared that as wages are higher IN Eng
land than on tho continent the tide
will turn altogether in this direction.
Already the influx Of foreigners, and
especially of Russians and Poles, will
ing to work for small wages, has had
perceptible effect upon the labor mark.
ct. and many Engiishmen feel that
they are out of jobs because the Rus
slams and Poles have found jobs. There
is also u large influx of Russian and
Polish women who are gradually drift
ing into employment rs servants and In
other domestic capacities, the lower
rate of wages paid them being compen-
sation to employers for their ignorance
of the language. THUS both English
men and English women are being
driven out of work by immigration.
The only class that strictly favors free
immigration is the manufacturers.
They hold IT over the operatives in the
textile industries as menace
of what might happen If the
operatives are too persistent
IN their demands for higher wages, or
their opposition to reduced wages. As
some OF the newspapers are owned by,
or published in the interest of manu-
facturers, such newspapers are very
cnary of dealing with the subject.
workingmen, however, are alive to
the issre, and will press it upon their
parliamentary representatives.
English social Evils.
The growth of the social evil in Lon
don Is causing much anxiety, not to
church people alone, but to the author
ities, AID il is significant fact that
many of the young women enlisted
IN the army OF 0utcasts are of good
family and training, but take to their
unhappy life. 1t is said, under the pres
sure of extreme necessity. General
Booth Is said to be giving particular at
| tentiOn to this class of outcasts with
view of giving them an opportunity
| to resume an honorable career.
A dispatch from Paris says that u
great sensation is brewing in connec-
| ton with the Panama scandal. II is
Claimed that former leading minister
| of state consented to be silent rs to
the gross frauds which were being COM
mitted because his wife received pres.
ent of 100000 francs. The wife, soon
| after receiving the present, deserted
her husband and went to live with one
| of the Panama canal officials, taking
with her at the same time the 500 ,00(
francs. The minister did not dare tc
say anything on the subject for fear OF
being exposed, and it is now likely
that, besides the loss of his wife anC
the money. he will be exposed as we'll
Bismarck win Not Debate.
One question which everybody ir
Berlin asks his neighbor now is viii
Bismarck enter the Reichstag to an
swer Caprivi's accusations of false.
hood. As already stated in this cor
respondence, the possibility OF the ex.
| chancellor following such q course il
remote. He is not ready debater
and would cut sn especially poor fig.
ure if pitted against Caprlvi in such y
military discussion as would necessar
lily he involved in his reply to the pres.
cnt chancellor. CaprivI is perhaps the
| hise nAtSiy oueuOIity III Tue empire
| and the genera! opinion is that the
prince will therefore lind 1t more to
his taste to deliver h,s answer in the
form of an anonymous broadside in
the Hamburger Nachrichten.
In the capitols of the continental
| powers only an academic interest i.
manifested toward the Brusssi's con
rerence. Austria and Germany are
Ike England, inclined to regard The
conference as demonstration in favor
of the silver mining industry OF the
United States, while France, Italy
and Spain occupy less negative attl
tudes. They have few expectation
that any proposals of the American
delegates will be accepted or even rec
commended by any other delegates Il
their respective governments.