Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-03-24
Can We Restrict immigration


ulexity if not of less gravity just
at this time. Are our present I'M
migration laws Of the Mede and
Persian type? Must we forever
allow other nations to back up to
our shores and dump into our terri
tory horde of beings whose pres
ence will probably effect the char
acter of our population and the
preservation of our institutions
We at one time believed we could
absorb the immigration coming to
our shores and soon mould the for
eigners into good American cltl-
zens. That was when they came
from the more moral classes OF
Europe; came to make homes
among us; enjoy our liberty and
free institutions, They came of
their own volition, paid their own
massage and had ample means Of
providing for themselves after they
came. Such immigration did and
would now contribute tothe growth
and prosperity of our nation. But
it is vastly difernt now, change
has come, and the immigration OF
today is made up Of a different ma
terial, coming as it does from the
superstitious, ignorant and most
vicious classes Of foreign national
tiles. Paupers, criminals, the dis
eased and all classes demorallzing
to society are coming, teaching dis
content and melting laborers to a
hatred of their employers, infuslng
into their minds principles that
would subvert law and order by H.
PRODUCING chaos.
Thousands Of these immigrants
are driven out or even helped to
emigrate by those of their native
lands who are anxious to be rid OF
them. while as many are induced to
come by agents of transportation
companies which hope to profit
from their passage money. 1t Is
true that able bodied persons WHO
are able to earn their own bread
have a natural right to leave their
native country and seek another
which affords better opportunities
and where the recompense for Ia
bor is better. The United States
would not wish to exclude such
immigrants, but for a few years
past, Russia, Austria, Poland, Hun
gary and Italy have been pouring
in upon us such flood of undesir'
BILE "citizens" that it is becoming
more than we can or should en-
dured. That point has been reach
ed where patience is no longer a
virtue, and some measure should
be devised to check this class OF
immigration, at least, but here
again comes the oft propounded
question, show can it be dOne?'
since politicians will not make a
decided move in this matter for
fear they will drive the naturallzed
voters into the folds of the oppos-
ing party 1t is we'll known that
these politicians will corral our
male immigrants, however ignorant
and degraded they may be, soon at
ter their arrival and make voters OF
them, whse vote once in the bal
lot box counts as much as those OF
the most intelligent voters OF the
land. 1t is indeed a knOtty prob
lem that we will be forced to solve
sooner or'later and certain it is that
such actions on the part Of men
VINO are supposed to have the pow
err to act in this matter will not
hasten a solution of the provoking
tangle. Can they be so utterly in
different to Americas interests and
so betray the confidence of their
constituents as TO turn a deaf ear
to their demands and by bartering
for the foreign votes encourage
rather than discourage the influx
of class Of beings who only go to
swell the ranks of the followers of
such men as Most and the once no.
torious Parsons. The masses have
not forgotten the disgracefrl and
deadly Haymarket riot instigated
by the turbulent spirit of imported
I'M NTH H. hon, /,