The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-12-09
FRIDAY. DECEMBER o. 1899.
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Our Chisf Source of Crime. -
Ex-President Hayes does not enter. =
tain the views he formerly held while u
President in regard TO immigration u
being one of the chief sources of crime
in this country. The ex.President at .
tended the National Prison Reform y
Association, of which he Is president,
which less than week ago was in SEES II
slon in Baltimore, and In an address =
which he delivered there he expressed .
his great qualification on tine subject
OF prison reform. or proof OF the ad U
vancement made In that direction he
pointed out the fact that cruel punish J
ments were no longer deemed essen.
tial to prison discipline. and that more
jails have been built on the Improved :
plan In the United States during the
last twenty years than were to be
found in all the world before 1870,
But the most Interesting point of
Mr. Hayes address is his changed at
titude in reference to immigration.
He has heretofore been known as an
advocate of unrestricted immigra-
tlon. Referring to his past views upon
that subject, he says;
confident and hopeful of the edu-
cational and regenerating power and
influence of republic where religion
and conscience are free, where public
schools abound, where all are traned
to rule under government Of the
governed, 1 have heretofore stoutly
maintained that our country without
anything more than a temporary iu-
convenience. can absorb, assimllate
and enroll as citizens any number OF
aliens likela to seek our shores
Bat stern facts have and the inexora-
BILE logic of the times have compelled
the ex-Prasident TO radical change in
his position on this question. and he
now asserts in the most positive Ian
guago that ''immlgration as II exists
to-day is the lion in the pathway OF
the progress OF America" This ls
strong language from so close a stu
dent of human nature as o&PresidGn
HAYES is and should carry great weight
with those vino have TO deal officially
with Immigration. Mr.. Hayes pro-
ceeding made this distinct and striK
ing assertion:
among our people OF American
birth ana parentage careful reading
OF the statistics Tor the past genera
ton VIII SHOW that crime has largely
diminished and is decreasing. Strike
from the appalling catalogue OF crime
in our country ali OF the law-breaking
due to the .nlslattuu OF recent
years, ana the claims OF prison reform
in the United states will he amply
vlndicItei. The crimes OF Europe
are laid at our doors"
It has been generally accepted as "A
truthful assertion that immigration
was adding to the Grim, Of the coln-
try but that the great Increase OF the
criminal Glasses was solely duo to this
cause was not SO pOpuiarly known be-
fore.
ExPresident Hayes was strongly
backed up In tho position h. assumed
bya report read by Judge WIyland on
the importation Of criminals in which
1t was shown that during the decade
from 1852 to 1892. the decrease in the
number oil Immigrants from England,
Wales, Ireland and Scotland was So
per cent; from Germany. nearly IS
per cent; from Sweden aud Norway.
nearly 81 per cent. During the same
period the number OF immigrants
from italy Increased 30 per cent from
Poland, 597 per cent; from Russia, -
per cent; from Austria and Hungary
ia per cent; while the ftl ling OF o
Immigration from all uaRrtcrs in tn,
same deea,e was aIltllu oYer 2l Pc
cent. Or US Judge Mayland puts it
1--WE are. an for vents hive bssu. re
Celving tho very drezs of Europeal
socirty, the seam OF European cities
the destitute tma ignorant tho Mill
list, the Anarchist by scores Of thou
sands annually.
There Is strong food for Thought Il
these declarations of eX.Ptesiden
Hayes and Jddgo WayllnI for ever,
thoughtful American which include
tho better class of our adontel cit
zens. There should be no hosta;iu
about eariail.nE this gigantic OWL
cannot be permitted togo on lndrl
nateIy, or il will oyurwaelm us
ruin, The question La5=brsn TO
long ignored, but Tia pow SO prom
nently brought l.for1 the people tha
itcanuot he thrust aside We liza,
but to look at the Homestead riot
where nearly two.thlrds of those @
Ruged in the riots we're Of these war:
class oil foreigners, and either ef.r.
oil Their own vol.tion to this countr
oil were imported here by firrn seeitil
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