San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-08
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home nearly double this amount
the Chinese send home everything
and purchase all that they con-
sumo in China. 1t is any wonder
that there is a little stringency in
the money market, now that this
country is called upon to meet the
shortage in Argentine and Aus
tralia, by paying spot cash for
American securities until this time
held abroad? This country has
been the salvation of Europe and
the east for more than genera
ton. To this country have come
without let or hinderance all the
paupers of the old world that could
be shipped to these shores. To
this country a contemplate policy
has delivered the contents of the
prisons and the asylums of the
European continent, multiplying
ten fold our own criminal classes
and revolutionizing our society.
To this country has come all the sur
plus labor of Great Britain, Ireland
and the Continent that could be
shipped to this western land, until
our labor interests are dominated
by foreign toughs who know no
law but that of might, and whose
habits have worked demOraliZa-
ton among the native American
workmen. This country has been
the refuge of the oppressed, the
accursed, the criminal, the pauper,
the adventurer, the imbecile and
the lazaroni until it is wonder
that there is any moral health or
industrial sOundneSS in the nation.
To this country have come the
spectators of the old world buy
ing our securities when depressed
trading on our necessities, building
up the luxury and culture and the
refinement of all that is created by
wealth in those old world homes,
and building it up at our expense.
To this world of American thought,
creativeness, industry and lOngsuf-
fering patience now come the cool
les of the east with their filth,
their strangeness of language and
of manner, their detestatiOn of all
the civilities of American life, and,
there are not wanting those who
demand that an open sesame shall
be given to their counties hOrdeS
when they knock at our gates for
admission. 1t is high time that
this everlasting drain upon the
national life, the national finances,
the national morals, the national
Industries, and the decentralization
of all that is distinctiVely Ameri-
can among us should come to a
perpetual end. There is but one
way to end it. That is by the en-
actment of rigid restrictive laws,
so drafted that any shyster can
not drive a cart load of disfran-
chised immigrants through its
meshes at will. In justice to it.
self no more of the undesirable
populations of foreign countries
should be permitted Judgement
on the shores of this country until
those who are already here have
been somewhat Americanized. AS
it is, the nation is being so rapidly
unamericanized that it's distinctive
qualities as American are in dan
ger of being absolutely lost.
THE city council is doing it's
work of sanitation as efficiently as
they can. Let the people aid them
in every way, particularly by
readily complying with every reg
ulation that is laid down for in
creasing the cleanliness of the
premises and back alleys.
| THE graduated tax on large in.
comes is taking idea with the
masses. The idea finds favor.
; women who wear brains under