Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-15

given institutions OF our country. We
Orangemen view all this with honest pride,
for we are the parent body, and all other
patriotic institutions are onshoots from our
lusty trunk.
A Plea for Patriotic Spirit.
The speaker then made . plea for the
fostering of patriotic spirit and the proper
Observance of national holidays, particularly
Washington's Birthday and the Fourth OF
July. He continued:
An open Bible in the public schools is
something that the Orangemen are in pro-
found sympathy with. Our children should
early be taught to reverence the God that
forsook not our forefathers in their day OF
direst need. At no time during life can the
seed of religious thought be sown so deeply
into fertile soil as when the undeveloped
imagination OF childhood is cropping with q
feeble hand after the eternal truths to be
found in the Holy Word of God. We want
to remove the stigma of Godlessness SO Flip
grand public school system and stife to the
death the base insfnuation that we have be-
come body of agnostics or worse.
alarm and grave apprehension the. unre-
stricted inpouring upon American shores OF
the pauper, convict and vicious classes OF
the Old World. There was time when the
United States got the pick Of the intelli-
gence, the muscle and Drawn, and the hardi-
hood of Europe, for then journey across
the Atlantic was no small undertaking, and
the country only afforded livelihood to men
able and willing to work hard for it. To
these men we all owe an everlasting debt OF
gratitude as the founders and builders of
our present greatness. But the condition
OF affairs has materially changed since the
days when every man had to be q hero and
every woman u Spartan. We are now tast-
ing Of the miseries of overcrowdfng in many
years, unless a thorough and radical meas
ure is adopted to put check upon the in
flow of Immigration, we will experience in
an intensified degree all the horrors Of the
worst congested district in Europe.
The Evils Of Unrestricted Immigration.
The chasm between the rich and the poor
is growing wider and deeper every day. The
middle class portion of our population, once
our strength and pride, is gradually being
effaced, while a race of arrogant plutocrats
is springing up and forcing heretofore law
abiding, intelligent citizens into acts of law
lessness and anarchy. There is nothing but
danger and trouble ahead. The American
workingman has to give place to his foreign
rival, and the native-born artisan is COM
PEELED to stand idly bv while his children's
bread is being eaten by European contract
and pauper labor. Fellow Orangemen, this
is dismal picture but we all know it is
true. What is 10 be done? The disease de-
mands heroic remedy, and it must be ap-
tion of the United States should utilize every
resource at its command to have Congress
pass a bill capable OF fully
the danger. for tell you, brethren,
no patriot could be engaged in a bettcr or
more praiseworthy act than by trying to
save his country, the flower Of all the CEN
turies. from the perils surrounding 1t, from
immigration.
There is also another point to which de-
sire to particularly call your attention. 1t
Is the proud boast of Orangeism that men,
oers Of our order seldom if ever become the
objects OF public or private charity. The
features OF our order cannot be
,iven too great encouragement or be too
,losely attended to, SO that every brother |
should have a provision made for his future.
We want to have 1t known that no Orange