The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-09-29
A DANGER TO BE NET.

IN this country is a huge job for the
third party or any other party.
The pauper element ofall Europe
is being dumped upon our shores
faster than their condition can be
ameliorated, until there is not ade>
quate employment for them. They
are pushing our native population
in strong competition, lessening
wages, causing strikes and riots and
bringing communistic views along
with them, until all political parties
have their hands full to regulate
matters and keep down anarchy.
The New York Sun and other pa
pers are alarmed at the situation
and demand that Congress interfere
and save our country from this vast
tide of immigrants, bringing cholera
and poverty and crime.
Francis A Walker, so eminent as
statistician, has come TO the con
clusion that for the welfare of the
republic it is time that this STREAM
of European immigration, now swoll-
en- to such enormous volume, shall
be peremptorily checked" He
would have the dam raised against
it by specific restraining and re-
suictive legislations and hot by
merely temporary quarantine expe>
dents put in operation for single
occasion of emergency and danger.
Countries which bad appeared not
at all, or to very slight extent, in
our statistics OF the nationalities OF
immigrants, are now the sources
whence is coming a vast and in
creasing immigration From Aus
tria- Hungary we received none until
within recent years, but in 1891 the
number coming thence was more
than 1900. From Poland we OBJ
tanned only about 500 in 1877, but
in 1891 the total was over 81, 900.
From Russia, exclusive Of Poland
and Finland, the immigration was
trifing ten or fifteen years ago. In
1891 it amounted to more than A.
900, From Italy the immigration
to this country began only recently,
but in 1891 it was over 10000. This
volume has increased during the
present year, and unless checked it
will be much greater in 1898. We
are only beginning to receive the
Jewish immigration. 1t is likely to
amount to a million in the next
eight years. The present depres-
sion Of industry in England vail
swell the tide, and new sources Of
supply in Europe are opened as time
goes on.
This means tremendous competi-
ton in the labor market of this
country and a lowered scale of wages
and of living. 1t means imported
squalor and degradation contaminat.
ing the condition of the population
already here. Hence Mr.. Walker,
who opposed the passage of the
Chinese Exclusion bill ten years ago,
has now completely changed his
mind. he welcomes it as ''strik-
ing proclamation of the right and
the duty of nation to defend itself
against what was believed to be a
corrupting and degrading immigra>
tor from whatever quarter. He
rejoiccs in it rs furnishing prece-
dent for . necessary exclusion of
more general application. "Self-
Defence" as he truly Gays, sis the
first law of nature and of nations.
By letting in this flood of squalid
immigration, now pouring upon us
in increasing volume, we are de-
stroying for all our people tae ma
tionai advantages which tempt it to
our shores.
Accordingly, and precisely ex-
planning his remedy, Mr.. Walker
would "tor the ten years next en>
suing" require a deposit of 800
from every alien entering our ports
after Jan. /, 1898" Ii the immi-
grant leaves this country within
three years he would refund the
amount to him. If be remains that
long he would repay it to him "upon
the presentation of satisfactory evi>
dence that he is at the time law.