Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20


to our government and institu-
tions by the hordes of revolu-
tionists that crowd to our cities
from other countries, "a mass
of human element whose doc
trine is not work or citizenship
but revolution, assassination, de-
struction to social and political
order,-t life, liberty and prop
erty. Back of all the strikes and
riots is a certain principle of
foreignism. Riots were I'M
heard Of in American before the
arrival of this disturbing ele-
ment; American labor is endan-
gered, American law and order
threatened.
The tramp is a foreign luxury.
Forty years ago, tramp was al
most unknown in this country
now the highways and by-paths
are swarming with them, and
nearly every one is a foreigner.
Go to the crowded prisons all
over the land. Go to the poor
houses. Go to the criminal
courts. In each place you will
find three-fourths of the subjects,
if not larger proportion, repre-
sentatives of the pauper or Grim
inal classes of Europe. They
come to this asylum of the OPP
pressed to revel in crime, and to
fill the alms-houses, prisons, and
pest-houseS.
One of the greatest dangers
that threatens this Government,
is the corruption of the ballot.
Free and fair elections are a
thing of the past. The most i'm
portant elections are carried by
outrageous frauds in the large
cities, and the instruments used
are the hordes of ignorant and
crime-steeped vermin from the
most benighted regions of Eu-
rope. Pick out the fraudulent
names from the city registry aud
poll-ists, and you will find them
largely the same class of names
referred to. Men who will COM
NIT murder for two cents, will
not hesitate at SO simple a thing
as depositing a fraudulent ballot.
Is not the Pinkerton Detective
system a foreign abuse trans
ferred to America? Under what
authority do they carry on their
high-handed operations We can
understand how an individual,
or a firm, ora corporation, might
have the right to employ watch
men or detectives to guard
against or ferret out criminals
who commit depredatiOns upon
their property but where does a
resident of Chicago derive his
authority? Every State has laws
to punish all manner Of crimes.
and officers to execute all laws.
from Governor down to sheriffs.
marshals, and cOnstables. But
here are gangs of men of I'M
known character and reputation,
gathered up from all over the
country, and having their head
quarters i'll Chicago, who are
despatched to Pennsylvania OF
any other distant State, in pur-
suance of no law, by order or at
the solicitation of no legal au-
thority, and proceed to fire upon
and slaughter citizens, who, if
they are violating the laws of the
State, are also amenable to the
laws, and punishable under them
by the officers constituted by law.
1t may be i'll accordance with the
code of Scotland Yards: but such
a detective who kills a man
should be subject to the same
punishment as any other muir
derer.
Both Houses of Congress made
haste to pass the bill excluding
Chinese. But Chinese immigra-
ton is a trife, compared with
those other classes. The China
men work, attend to their own
business, raise no riots. and allow
other people to work. They are
moderate in their desires, save
their money, and when they have
secured a small competence, re-
turn to their own country, there
to end their days.
A capitation tax upon all i'm
migrants landing, will not meet
the case. A criminal can raise
the money to pay his tax, and
professional paupers would be
supplied with money for that
purpose, in order to rid the Eu-
ropean countries of them; while
thousands of honest. industrious
people, who would make good
citizens, are so poverty-stricken
that they can barely save enough
money to pay the cheapest pas
sage to America, and have moth
ing left when they reach here.
a numerous, vigilant, active
Government police force, on land
and sea, would be less expensive
than the cost of the riots, plum
der and crimes of the vicious
classes after they have gained a
foothOld in this country A; and
they would be far preferable to
Pinkerton or other private detec-
tives, perhaps themselves com
posed largely of hardened Grim
inalS.
Rigid laws for the punishment
of all criminals or incendiary
disturbers, or compelling them
to return to their native coun-
tries, with a penalty of death in
case they come back. would be a
great help. 1t may be objected
that such laws and reolllations