Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-04
MAKES A BIG KICK
Against the immigration OF Rus
sian Jews.
GREAT BRITAIN IS AROUSED
And Determined 10 Stop the Wholesale
Dumping Into London Of Cholera
Infested Proteges of Hifsch.

LosDoS, sept. 3.-The one absorbing
topic is the cholera and the danger
arising from foreign immigration.
England and Scotland have of late
years got very little immigration of a
desirable sort. To Scandinsylans and
Germans, or even the French, there
would be little objection. The two
former are kindred races and 10 the
French, England IS indebted for the
| origin OF profitable Industries. But the
| ScandlnavIans and Germans go on 10
America. the French stay at home aud
all that England receives Is the refuse
from Poland and Russia that nobody
wants. These people, many OF them
filthy beyond description IN their
habits, often difficult to tell whether
they are black or white, are utterly
unaccustomed 10 the wants and unac-
qualnted with the benefits OF civlllza-
ton, throng into our cities, to challenge
the intelligent, native born English
men, Scotchmen or lrishmen IN the
struggle for bread. Their passage here
IS usually paid by some charitable He
brew society, and as soon as they arrive
they are thrown on their own re-
sources.
Then They Seek Their Level.
They gravitate TO the most crowded
and offensive regions of the east end,
with the same instinct that the eel
takes to the mud, and they at once be-
come the prey of the sweater VINO
gives them work at wages that an Eng
/ llshman would starye upon. England
Is actually getting the worst of the Rus
slan Jews. When one of these proteges
| of Baron Hircsh Is so filthy, so abso-
lutely and irretrevlably obnoxious that
ms rejection is feared even under the
liberal system of admission prevalent
III the United States, he is dumped
into London to hide his dirt and infec-
ton IN this city of swarming millions.
The outbreak of cholera has aroused
the people of England to the danger of
this repulslve Immigration as they have
never been aroused before, and there
Is prospect that II will become an I'M
portant national issue. The liberals
are not inclined to favor free trade IN
| immigrants as IN everything else. The
torys, on the other hand, lean toward
restriction and may make a point IN
the coming parliament TO restrict I'M
migration. If they adopt such q course
they will have behind them the potent
sentiments Of the working classes
Made a Contract with Hirsch
1t Is said here that the reason the
steamships between New York and
Hamburg have persisted IN carrying
Russian passengers IN the face of dan
ger OF Infection and after cholera had
spread not only IN Russia. but III Ham
burg itself, is that the Hamburg Amer
lean Steamship company has contract
or understanding with Baron Birsch to
carry these people and has hesltated to
break the arrangement until there is
no doubt whatever that the Russian
Jews brought the Infection TO Ham,
burg. The cholera travelled clear
across Germany in the trains In which
the emigrants were conveyed from the
frontier. The plague was in effect
kept IN quarantine on the trains until
the emlgrants, reaching their transfer
depot at Hamburg, were allowed to
leave the trains, and with them chol-
era also stalked forth to the city.
Hamburg is paying the price for hav-
ing been selected as the depot for
Baron Hirsch's colonization scheme.
Hamburg the stopping Place.
1t was the Mecca in Europe for the
Russian Jewish immigration to Amer
Ica. For a while this emigration
brought some profit and money, and
now it has brought the pestIlence.
Germany has experienced a week of
such excitement "a she mas not felt be-
fore since the Franco Prusslan war.
The number of persons in the empire
who have succumbed TO the cholera is
not known, and will not be known un-
I'll careful examination shall have re-
vealed the facts which the Hamburg
authorities have been conceslIng. The
scale Con which these gentlemen have
been lying was shown more clearly on
Thursday when they reported but 139
fresh cases and forty-fve deaths, al
though 6Sl fresh cases and pa deaths
mad been brought 10 their notice.
Then 1t was very well known that the
figures were very much below the true
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