The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-08

REPUBLICAN IMMIGRATION.

Mr. Bennett. the wideawake general
passenger agent of the Rio GraDde
Western railroad is just returned from
an extensive visit to Europe and is
full of the idea that with little in
tellisent effort there are thousands
and thousands of immigrants of the
better class there who could be induced
to immigrate to Utah and join in the
This idea the Tribune ridicules un-
mercifqlly. 1t you'd be willing to see
men worth a million or more immi-
CRATE to Utah, but for poor people it
would rather they would stay at home.
1t has no use in the world for them.
This indicates the policy of the repub-
lican party beautifully. That party
and all of its immediate projenltors
have been uniformly opposed to foreign
immigration ever since the know-noth-
party went out and was succeeded by
the republican party, that party has
stood at the portals and waved back the
masses Of the useful, the virtuous and
the skilled laborers of Europe. The
Tribune is not alone in this idea of ex-
clusion. 1t is the we'll known and ac-
cepted policy of the republican party,
Notwithstanding the fact that the lead
ing idea in the first settlement of this
country was that an asylum might be
built up here for the oppressed of all
nations, all creeds and: all classes of
people,
This paper belongs to, and is unques-
tionably the leading paper of
the republican party in Utah.
Now the great majority Of the people
of this territory are of foleign birth.
They we're invited here by both the
civil and the ecclesiastical government
of the territory. They, as rule, were
poor people and yet the Tribune now
and then invites attention to their
thrift and general prosperity. If a
few years residence in our beautiful
and prosperous new state renders
men prosperous and transforms the |
helpless poor immigrants into well |
fed, well clothed and self sustaining |
citizens, we cannot see just why we
should change our policy to the extent
that man must have a million in his |
pocket or find our gates locked Sc
eurelY against him. It is true the re-
publican is the party of the rich. 1t
has from its birth, so far as it could
flched from the poor and give to the
rich. All the advantages of the gov
eminent have been shared among the
pets of the party, while the poor have
born its burdens patiently and meekly.
The party of the trusts and monopolies
sees the poor come here as it does the
wolves and wild beasts. The poor re-
cieve little or no consideration at its
hands. You must have money and in
million dollar lots, if you are to re-
cieye a welcome from Utah republicans
or republicans of any other state.
This is the one fixed. principle of that
faith.
How does this strike the heroic old
first settlers and their descendants?
There is hardly family of these but
have friends and relatives back in
Europe, whom thev are inviting to
come to Utah to share in their own
good fortune. The republican party
would close the doors to them be-
cause forsooth they haye not the Leces-
sary millions to insure their welcome
Or even their liberation. This princi-
pie is no better understood now than
it has ever been, and yet how the
sturdy farmers of Utah can vote for &
his hostile party, we are at a loss to I
see. i