The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-30
SEATTLE. MONDAY, Jurr 80.
TRUE PROTECTION FOR AMERfcAs
INSTITUTIONS.

I&sIfINElON1s
A deal has been spoken and written re-
Gently concerning the protection OF Amefi-
can institutions, but nothing has been
better said than the words spoken BY Ex-(
United States Senator Edmunds recently
before the equantan Club, Of Providenee,
RI Senator Edmunds. although nearly
81 years Of age. is s,iIl so young that he Is
not easily stampeded by recent events
into an outburst Of prem ature pessimism
He believes that We are moving onward to
a wider and better civilization. What We
need now more than tariffs or free trade or
this, that or the other policy sis greater
respect for the laws OF the country" Mr..
Edmunds on this point further said: Q
THE troubles we have had In the last
few weeks, which have been so much pitted
and regretted and sneered at on the other
side of the water, have simply come from
IN overdose OF Europe. lApplause and
cheers. long continued. What We Demo
Gratis and Republicans need in this coun-
try, and what our children need, Is the
union Of men of oil parties TO preserve
America pure for Americans lapplausei.
aud at lasi we shall do IL. So iong as in
the sir New England states we continue
20 have the churches. the artisans. the
workshops and the farms there viii con-
tinue TO be, as from an unfailing foEntain.
q bountiful supply of patriotism. which
will insure perfect right and liberty 10
every man to be protected by the law.
That is what has made New England what
IL Is. so shall she continue TO be. 60 do
not despair Restrict the privileges Of
foreign citizenship lapplausel, and then
whatever policy we adopt-and We must
remember that one portion OF the country
cannot suffer without all the rest suffering
in proportion--we shall al wonder ia i've
or ten years why we worried so much TO-
day"
These views of Senator Edmunds are
sound: he has no sympathy with the
stupid. brutal Nothingism of forty
years ago, but he believes in little whole
some restriction of the hood Of foreign inn
migration. whlci so quickly affsi so easily
finds its way into full American citizen
ship as soon as IL reaches our shores. I'M
migration restriction leagues have been
formed In various parts of the country.
whose purpose is To inform laboring men
especially OF the influence Of food Of
men living by lower standards upon the
welfare OF the American workfngman.
These leagues urge that the present immi-
grafton laws need 10 be amended in the
direction Of restriction, for, as they say.
"a law which allows the admission OF the
IA per cent. OF immigrants who can neither
read nor write, and which debars only
1880 out Of a total Of 10000. needs some
reform"
This restriction of immigration ought
rot to become a party question at all, for
every honest American. whether Demo
GRAFT or Repab5iean. who believes in up
holding the American flag and maintain
ing our fundamental ideas Of liberty under
law must see that We cannot afford to be-
come a mere dumping ground for all the
refuse OF Europe any more than We can
afford 90 become mere dumping ground
for all the refuse OF Asia The organizers
of riot. the svangelists OF anarehiAm. have
become So formidable in Europe that all
the great governments are proposing, dis
eusslnE aud enAotinR new measures of pro-
lection for Law ami order. The assasslna-
tion of President Carnot and the attempt
TO a.sassinsts Prime Minister Crispi have
aroused the French and Italian govern
menn @ the necessity Of more efficient
measures Tor the extirpation Of anarchists.
France and Italy have already enacted
severe measures whose effect Will be 10
make these countries unhappy IL not un-
healthy places OF residsnce for the future.
Spain has passed similar measures, and in
England Lord Salisbury is likely to sue
eeed in passing his bill authorizing the
expulsion OF notofious anarchists from the
United Kingdom. Great Britain vii no
longer remain aa asylum for sssassins
calling themselves political agisAsOrs. Lord
Salisbury .ayss
at Is an insuls 70 6arahaldi or kossash
g. mention their names the same breath
- the men who raise our horror now. I,
is a mere cian%snE % tradition, OF which
the bare pyetcnse survives, 20 say that De-
cause ws have always granted the right Of
asylum 10 patriots aaa rebels, however
mistaken they may have been, therefore
We should continue co grant the Fighs a
asylum 60 those who 1.-Two in hsbltuAl
conspiracy Of assassination"
n, as we expect, Great Britain takes the
action desired By Lord Salisbury, there
will no longer remain Any country IN Eu,
rops whore shese anarchist folk can re.
EIDE. and the natural consequences will b
that the United States will become ar
asylum for European snsFchistA En.
gland VII No longer shelter them. and ths
continental countries q Europe are ex,
pe,llnx then. The famous Eugszsh an.
aFehist, MowtTsy. has already arrived in
thss country for the Kvowed purpose 81
disseminating his destructive doctrines
TIE worst rioters during she recent eaal
strikes. ths bridge burners. railroad wreck
srs. dsstsoysTs 81 mine property and a.
saalters q peaceful sorklngmea, we're said
a. be foreigners imhued with sanrchlsi
notions. Representative stens. % Psan
sylvaaia. defends his pending bsl against
anarchists and anarchy ca the ground
that this eoeatrY hss become TIE nrefsrred
klslEg phase ioE laslslvs sEAzxAlsas fros