Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-29
IMMIGRATION MUST STOP.
Tho Dumping of Europs's Refuse HUI
manity on tho shores of This Country
MmSI Gnnsn.

The Dumping of Europs's Refuse HUI
manity on tho shores of This Country
Must Cease.
Newark n. D., Advertiser.
It was supposed that when the order
OF the National Government enioining
n twenty days quarantine on all immi-
grant vessels should reach Europe,
immigration would at least be temper
arily suspended. The natural expecta-
ton was that foreign ship.owncrs would
not cure to run the risk Of being obliged
10 support their Storage passengers for
twenty days after arrival on this side Of
the ocean. This cheerful belief has
been disappointed. There are now on
the ocean three steamers, two from
Hamburg and one from Antwerp, loaded
with Storage passengers. Oneof these,
the PENNSYLVANIA, left Antwerp as late
as Saturday last, and the other two, the
bohemia and the Polara, sailed from
Hamburg on the Sd and the 9Th, respec-
lively. 1t is evident that the steamship
companies dcspatching these ships have
either felt compelled to execute contracts
for transportation that had been made
before the United States quarantine
order was issued, or they have come to
the conclusion that our authorities,
national, state and local, will take care
of the immigrants and relieve the com
panies OF all responsibility in that direc-
ton. 10 this latter view of the case
they might not unreasonably incline,
ihasmueh as public and private muniii-
cence on this side Of the water has
readily supplied the necessities Of the new
arrivals, as far as this has been possible
under the great and unexpected strain
laid upon us by the sudden exigency.
But, in any case, it is evident that this
persistent forcing upon our shores of
hundreds of immigrants, from plague
stricken cities, in the midst of the pre-
valencc of the disease, will alarm the
country to such an extent that Congress
will be forced to take action when it
assemblies. 1t is possible that the execu-
tive department may, in the recess Of
Congress, be able to light upon some
device which may accomplish what it was
hoped that the quarantine order would
the total suspension Of all immigra-
ton. 1t must be admitted that the
prospect that this can legally be done
by an executive order is not very good;
but ii is certain that if Congress were
now in session, with the cholera at our
doors and hundreds of Storage passen-
gers from infected ports on the way
hither, summary proceedings would be
taken at once. Our people have been
often warned within the past few years
that our immigration laws were too
liberal
Paupers, criminals of the lowest class,
anarchists and defiant enemies of all
government have been dumped upon
our shores, practically without check.
And now, when our people are greatly
alarmed by the approach of dreadful
and deadly disease, on one pretext or
another, the greedy steamship companies
that have long been engaged in the
profitable trade Of exporting these
miserable tribes, refuse to check their
business. 1t is an alarming condition
of things. For it shows that nothing
short Of drastic aud mandatory proceed
ings on the part of the national govern
mcnt will stop this flow of an evil tide
towards our shores. That these pro-
ceedlngs ultimately will have to be taken
is evident. II is a pity that the iron bar
cannot be put up now.