The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-06-25
RFoadhrin's New York Letter.

RlOdQDPlmS Nov YOPE lGllGP.
New YORK, June 2l.-Year after year
the conviction is forced upon us that
we have placed too slight a price upon
our citizenship. It is desirable that all
who come among us to live and make
homes, if they have the proper qualih-
cations and character, should, after
due probation and trial, be invested
with the rights of citizenship. One of
the essential requisites of citizenship
ought to be that the applicant should
be able to read the ballot, which in the
hands of the voter, ought to be a guar
antee of the safety of the republic, but
which, given to the brutalized, ignorant
mob which about election time are
turned out here at the rate Of hund-
reds in single day, become instru-
ments of national destruction and dis.
grace, more dangerous than an invading
army. In one court last fall SOB voters
were turned ont i'm single day, and in
the following two days 5l7 and 6l3.
They were actually turned out at the
rate of one a minute for every working
hour of the court, and this in the face
of the fact that the judge is sworn that
he will satisfy himself as to the qualih-
cation of the voter.
In Judge McAdam's court nearly 1000
foreigners were naturalized in the
month of October, 5000 of them being
Russians, Poles and Iungarians, not
one in 90 of whom could speak word
of our language, and not one in
hundred OF whom could either read or
write it. These mercenaries are driven
to the polls on election day and their
votes are sold by their contractors as
sheep are sold in the shambles.
This is the curse of all great cities,
more especially this great commercial
depot which receives them at the rate
of half a million a year. The Italian
immigration is a serious and threaten
ing factor in our national life and it
have made iron-clad laws against the
Chinese, fearing that their cheap labor
would ruin the labor market, and yet
the Italian immigration has been larger
in the past two years than the Chinese
immigration since 1861. In addition to
this the Chinese have given us com
paratively little trouble; there are no
beggars among them; very few of them
are found in our penal institutions,
while Italian mendicants line our side
walks in all stages of horrible deform-
ity, and our jails are full of Italian
lazaroni and banditti. If we secured
the honest and industrious Italian
peasant, who comes here to make his
home and till the soil, we would vel
come him; but the great majority of
those who arrive here look like ban
ditti, and the illusion is further carried
out by every man, ana not a few wo-
men, wearing beneath their jackets
sharpened file made into keen stiletto,
which they are ready to use on,the
slightest provocation. Our naturali-
zation laws are altogether too loose.
We have made the price of citizenship
too cheap; by all means put mp the bars.
Another new and gratifying effect of
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