Evening journal., 1892-12-21
uNcLE SAN AN lMMIeRANT.

Kate Field, in writing in favor Of stop
ping immigration for one year begins
by writing explosively of herself first
Il is frequently the case that woman
cannot write cogently on any subject
till she gets herself out of the way. She
seems to stand in her own light. and
stop the logical current Of her thought,
TN she gets rid of herself, takes herself
by the nape Of the neck, as it were, and
throws herself out Of the pathway Of the
subject in the distance.
Kate is no exception to this rule, She
dislodges herself thus:
am deeply interested in the burning
question of immigration which has sud.
denly taken possession of the public
mind. IL has possessed mine ever since
began TO think seriously about ma
tional affairs. / may be wrong in my
conclusion, but my premises are Ger.
tainly founded ON earnest conviction and
investigation / nave no vote belong
to no political party. AS a citizen 1
count IN law no more than the idiots,
paupers, criminals and minors, but / love
the country of my birth and want 10 see
1t is not strange that the women aud
semi men make their compliments to the
Republican party for comforting the
franchise upon negroes and not on white
women. That act belongs to the same
quality of craftsmanship as the McKin-
ley act for the promotion Of prosperity
and the suppression OF poverty. They
are similar but peculiar and homogen-
ious pieces of congloInerated statesman
ship and general damphoolishness which
will help to distinguish the Republican
party, and mari, the serial steps Of the
decadence in party that once claimed
TO have great moral ideas in its posses
sion and to employ them in its policy,
for all time TO come.
After she had explored that diversion
sufficiently Miss Field got down TO the
real question and said
I believe IN immigration. To has made
the New World. Uncle Sam himself is
an immigrant We are all immigrants.
I am the daughter of an Irish immigrant
and patriot. NY father would have died
for his adopted country. It was his
country because he gloried IN its institu.
tions and realized their meaning therefore
he was every inch an American. and all
immigrants like unto him are Americans.
They do not come to this Republic "a
leave il when their pockets are fun
they do not sell their votes to con.
tractors or scheming politicians; they do
not refuse to assimilRte; they do not
place the land of their birth before the
land of their salvation. This is what
mean by America for Americans
Doubtless that oratorical, cork pop.
ping, ierky sort Of argument hurling and
sentiment firing is as effective as Il is
hysterical. But it is tiresome.
A great deal of the writing on the
subject Of immigration is not only tire
some bat nonsensical Nearly every
writer wishes TO settle the whole evil
the series Of evils in fact, which hav,
proceeded from immigration, within th,
last five or ten years by law. That i
the crank pauacea for everything.
Now, the evils Of immigration con-,
from tie tariff laws; from tae anxiety d
those, who entrenched behind the tar 4
laws, strive 10 obtain cheap labor NJ
laws, conceivable, can prevent those
evils when other laws and practices exist
10 promote them
The real cure for the evils OF immmi
grafton Is the reduction Of the tariff ano
the enforcement of the laws against
contract labor. No emergency laws will
. do it. It system Of evil long staRa-
! Ins and dsep rs9sea.