Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-11-17
STUBBORN FACTS.

We learn, much to our surprise, that
our editorial of last week reviewing the
national election proved distasteful to
few of our citizens who have expressed
more or less emphatically their disap-
proval Ia short, THE TIMES has been
criticized upon two counts, viz: "Its
abuse of Democrats" and it's views on
foreign immigration. We can hardly
believe that any man who read that ar
ticle honestly and truthfully, can feel
aggrieved, be his political belief what it
may, and that local significance has been
attached to it is still more difficult of
acceptance. Let us look it over.
In treating the results of election we
stated that Mr.. Cleveland had "won a
magnificent political victory" and in
the light of later returns we are not dis
posed to qualify that statement. We
affirmed that "the people, had preferred
Democratic instead of Republican poll
cies, and acknowledged the clean conduct
of the campaign. We regretted only that
in New York and Illinois, two great
states with 60 votes in the electoral
college, the vote of the country
districts was dominated and buried by
the vote of their two great cities, New
York and Chicago, and we claimed that
the vote of those two cities was unclean
to the last degree, leading to the infer
ence that they were made so by the
dregs of foreign immigration. Is there
anything wrong about those statements; !;
anything which is not admitted by every
man who thinks?
Doesn't every man of us know that
crowded citfes are less elevated in their
citizenship than country towns? Isn't
( it admitted that Tammany Halrs power
is eorrnp. blot upon the fair name of
New York &ity? fsn't in generally ac-
cepted that Chicago contains more nihil-
ism, anarchism, communism and all
around 'cussedness" than any city in this
country? We are dealing in facts which
are patent to all who look into or in
quire about the matter, and facts, too,
which have no political flavor whatever.
We are not responsible because it hap
pens that these cities voted the Demo-
cratic ticket at the last election. We
suppose it was coincidence or some
thing Of that sort.
And we claim that loose regulation of
foreign immigration has largely given
their lowest social elements to our great
cities. Our views on this question have
before this appeared in these columns.
Criminal statistics show that onr lowest
and most turbulent classes are the scum
and refuse of the old world, sent here as
an easy riddance of very bad rubbage.
Foreign immigration should have been re-
stricted thirty years ago, making Amer
lea in deed and truth free country to
the foreign artisan and industrious work.
man, but forbidden land to foreign
criminals and rogues. The same ques-
tion has its industrial side. Any laborer
who admits that twice two are four must
also admit that one man who applies for
a given job is safe to get better wages for
doing it than if he is one of three men to
compete for it. We have our one man
now in America, and are eternally
against importing the other two to enter
the competition.
1t comes to this, and here we can
quote right heartily the words of Grover
Cleveland at the banquet of the Cham
Der of Commerce at New York on Tues
day evening: "We are all interested as
Americans in common pursuit. Our
purpose is, or ought to be, in our several
spheres, to add to the general fund of
national prosperity" Amen and amen.
10 this end, down with the power of
corruption, whatever its political stripe.
A ready welcome for the brain and
Drawn of every country under the sun !;
a perpetual quarantine to old-world dis
ease and filth and decrepitude.