New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-12


an ocean steamer. have seen their tears
falling upon the paper as they wrote out
their message of hope and courage from
the only country on earth where human
life IS lifted above the level Of hopeless
=drudgery for the poor.
/ have often stood in Castle Garden,
at the gateway of the Republic, watch
ing that restless throng out Of every kin
dred tongue and tribe of people. have
seen young men standing there holding
in their hands a suit Of taxed American
clothes for a brother arriving on these
shores out of the very countries where
clothes are the cheapest. | have seen
young women timidly hiding under a
taxed American cloak the bright colors
of a new hat for sister who had Just
come from land where everything is
SO cheap that nobody can buy anything.
Nor could I keep out Of my heart
words Of welcome to those who have
loved our flag even afar off, and have
come hither to better their condition and
open the pathway of fortune to them
selves and to their children And the
day is coming, is nearer than the Demo-
cratic leaders Of to-cla1 may think, when
these fugitives from the hard conditions
Of the Old World, and their children af-
ter them, will stand as a unit with the
Republican party to keep the shield of
American law before the cottages of
American labor.
have not as much interest as some in
the current agitation that seeks to shut
the doors of the great Republic in the
face of mankind. do not feel that we
have been here long enough ours elves to
begin to complain about the arrival of
other people. [ believe that men and
women who know by experience the bur-
dens Of other countries are likely to serve
the commonwealth as we'll as those per-
sons born among us who 90 about COM
planning that American life is not worth
living; that our pockets are picked, and
that our houses are entered by duly auth
orized burglars, and our household goods
SO nearly all stolen that it is hardly worth
while to interrupt the larceny. Uaugh-
ter.) They saythat anarchy is abroad in
the land.
May be it is, but the most complete
statement of the popular creed of the
anarchist was not by John Most, the
German, but by the son of an American
Clergyman who teaches that "a man is
no more responsible for his character
than for his height, for his conduct than
for his dreams And the only time we
have ever seen anarchy on exhibition in
the West was the day when Knute Matt
son, Norwegian sheriff, managed the
hanging of a native Virginian for the
murdero of Michael Degan, an Irish police
man of Chicago. But if it is thought
necessary to stop immigration, especially
of the degraded and the illiterate, there
is an easier way than by legislation.
Let the societies interested translate
into the languages of Europe few
specimen Democratic speeches; those
masterpieces of rhetoric which reflect
sentiments like those which wrung the
heart of the Hebrew poet when he cried
out, ssWoe is me, that sojourn in Me
sech; that [ dwell in the tents of Kedar."
Let them take my friends picture Of the
young married couple and hang it up at
the steamboat landings of Europe. 1t
will sift and assort immigration in the
most approved fashion, for it will frigh-
ten away the unintelligent mob, and af-
ter such a warning only those will go
down into the ships who have sense
enough to see that the gentleman from
Nebraska does not know what he is
talking about. daughter on the Repub-
ican side0
We should not forget that we have work