The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-08-03

the inflow of foreign labOrerS SO as to
keep the workshops of our country
from becoming too crowded. When
that is done believe strikes will be-
come less frequent A. III. G.
In considering this very important
feature of our government, the question
naturally arises, is it consistent with
true American democracy to restrict
immigration. Should we not rather
welcome good men and women to our
shores who come here to find a true
elysium. who will aid us to develop our
vast mineral and agricultural resources,
and build up the country generally;
men who will lay down their lives if
need be for the country they have ac
cepted as theirs. For such men and
women we have abundant room and
can point out to them with pride our
vast fertile tracts of land upon which
they may establish peaceful and pros
porous homes. But the lazy, the shift
less and unprincipled class must keep
out. For those we have no use, and
provision for their detection and laws
came should be made accordingly.
ONE LUNG.
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| think this country has so far adj
vanced as to need more care about let
ting the scum of foreign countries set
tie upon it's shore. Immigration should
be restricted to certain conditions:
First, the character and habits of the
intending emigrant should be inquired
into before leaving his own country:
Secondly, he should be able to read and
write at least in his own language:
Thirdly, the government should enforce
the laws prohibiting companies Or cor
pOrations from importing foreigners to
labor for them, or to be hired out under
the contract system, as the Six Com
panieS of San Francisco and similar
companies in Pennsylvania, who i'm
port Italians, Huns, Poles and BOhemi-
ans by thousands to work in the mines,
for the lowest of wages. These are the
lowest and most degraded people of the
world, who care nothing for our laws
or government, nor have any desire to
become American citizens.
G. A. f.
Xxx
immigration in times of prosperity,
when there is plenty of work for every
body is all very we'll, but IN the cOun-
try'S present situation, Overrun with la
bOrerS who are looking for work and
cannot find it, | think it time to stop
this influx of aliens. What benefit does
this country derive from immigration
at the present time? Nothing. The
capitalist gets the benefit, as it is his
opportunity to cut down wages and
pile up few more thousand dollars.
The immigrant is not to blame if wages
are cut down, he has to live and will
work for what he can get. AS long as
the gates are open to let in 100000. or
more immigrants every year, there will
be strikes, increase in criminals, social
ed tramps and misery everywhere. 1t
is time for our legislators, who have so
much feeling for the American work
ingman(befOre electiOn) to pass a law
restricting immigration. Then we can
say, America for Americans"
Hitherto this "land of the free, and
home of the brave" has furnished an
asylum to all immigrants, irrespective
of race or creed; and in the future will
always welcome to its shores, those
races, that in the past have shown the
desire and capability of becoming
Americans in all that the term implies.
Previous to 1886, the great majority of
the immigrants were either Irish, Ger
man. or Scandinavians who readily
adopted our customs, habits and ideas.
But since that period a decided and
vast change has taken place, and to-day
the class consists mainly of the repre-
sentatives of the SclavOnic and Semitic
races; from eastern, central and south
ern Europe; and who are ignorant, in
stable and anti-social, utterly incapa-
BILE of becoming assimilated, and who
will always prove source of weakness,
! and disturbing element to our gov