The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-12-14
OF consistent and patridfic endeavor
under Republican auspices has brought
forth.


i'm the large cities and that the ma
jorties given by the cities are controll-
ing our elections.
1t is a notorious fact that lin the
north, at least), the Democratic party
secures the bulk of its recruits from
such points. Had it not been so last
November democracy would have now
been in mourning in the nation as
they are i'm our state.
Within the last few weeks the immi-
grafton question has received even
more attention than the tariff, and ere
the winter passes it bids fair to become
a burning issue.
The cholera scare opened the eyes
and understanding of the people to the
dangers to be anticipated from unre-
stricted immigration from the stand
point of the sanitarian.
The election has even more sharply
drawn into notice this great evil from
another and still more important point
of view.
For many years class of immigrants
have been attracted to our shores that
have been, and will always be, desira-
BILE and welcome: sturdy men and
women, who have scattered themselves
all over our land, clearing up waste
places, mixing and intermingling with
our people, opening up new territory,
developing our mineral resources and
forming, in no small part, the popula-
ton of the new states which have been
added to the Union.
These people, for the most part law
abiding and intelligent, have accus-
toned themselves to our manners and
institutions, become acceptable citizens
of our nation, and reared and educated
their children in all practical senses
Americans.
With these people, in later years, have
constantly poured i'm upon us another
class of human beings, not agricultur-
alists. not skilled workmen, not miners,
not mechanics, not industrious and law
abiding people, but the driftwood and
refuse of Europe, including many Grim
inals, communists, socialists and vaga-
bonds, and not few paupers.
These people have flocked to our
large cities to repeat and spread in
them the customs of their second
nature in the old home, and to repro
duce with startling rapidity their spe-
cies to our great peril.
No chance of homestead, no oppor-
tunity of work or substantial benefit
can lure them from their haunts into
the quiet of our rural communities.
They barely exist upon the meagre
pittance they can earn. and prefer to
starve amidst the whirl, hurry and OK
element of the metropolis than earn
for themselves home and a compe-
tency in the country.
For these people, neither our Ian
guage, habits, laws or institutions have
any charms. They did not come here
primarily to be American citizens, but
being here, have, through unlawful
agencies and by the employment of i'm,
proper methods and under much toe
liberal laws, been admitted, in name, to
citizenship; to remain in fact foreigners
They know nothing of American history
or of what American citizenship i'm
plies. They appreciate neither its
privileges or its duties. They swear 10y
an oath, which very many of them dc
not comprehend, allegiance TO consti
tuition which they cannot read and
which is as meaningless to them as the
Greek alphabet.
For the most part they do not speak
our language and cannot read or write
in English Gf at alb and exercise the
elective franchise like automatons and
puppets, dancing to the tune and at the
nod of those who control them to their
wicked ends.
All parties and party candidates have
avaied themselves more or less of the
ihhuChNV PCOpiO, ubNSi ONiot'he
circumstances, are able to exert, and
the party or candidate that has no,
gained their support has not lost il
because of lack of effort but because
others have appealed to their prejudies
ignorance and cupidity in more sue
cessful manner.
This state of affairs is a menace to
the country and gross wrong to the
intelligent, industrious, law-abiding
masses of our people. That the voice
of intelligence, industry, thrift and
good citizenship should be handicapped
and overcome by such agencies in a
free country is monstrous.
The Australian ballot has afforded
some measure of relief but, from the
nature of the case, cannot effectually
correct the wrong.
Bad as the matter is, it is not yet too
late for remedy. Delay means ruin.
alton. A party whose watchword is
protection to American workmen
against pauper labor in Europe and