The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-06-30
MUST RESTRICT EMIGRATION

The Media Ledger the personal organ
of Hon. Jack" Robinson, claims that
the rank disorders in the jefferson coal
region, which put the state to the expense
of calling out the National Guard, EN-
phasizes the demand which has been 80
earnestly made of late, through many
sources, of restrictive immigration laws,
The disturbance in Jefferson was prin
cipally the work of ignorant aliens who
ave no more knowledge or appreciation
of self-governmeut and civil liberty than
an Arapahoe Indian. The first crime
against our system was in the lax law
that permitted such people to get into the
country Castle Garden gates should
never swing inward for such a class.
Their presence in this country is a sore
and plague spot and individuals or corpor
ations who import or employ such people
should be boycotted, or better, law
should be passed absolutely preventing
their immigration.
The idea of an Englsh-speaking com
munity in Pennsylvania being held in
durance and under menace by a horde of
alien miners for two or three days is re-
pugnant to all our ideas of common ser .
and social order, A good liberal distribu-
tion OF grape and canister among such a
mob would be worthy object lesson.
For organized labor, FOR poverty that is
honest, for the army of unemployed will
ing to work, but finding it not, for the
wage Garner and workingman who
through lawful methods seeks his rights
we have every huma , sympathy. But
for this alien rabble that is permitted
through loose laws or dishonest inspec-
tion to come here to breed riots and dis
order, we have no respect. They are akin
to the Anarchist.
The Anarchist belong to no country
and has no respect for any laws. These
people know nothing about law of order.
They should be enumerated, examined,
registered and deported to whence they
came. We do not want them in America.
There is no room for them on our soil.
1t is easy, however, to write ones alb
horence Of these things to pass resolu.
tions condemning the miserable laws
which allow their immigration, but it is
more difficult to stop the evil.
One thing seems assured that the pres,
ent Democratic Congress will do nothing
to change the system for the better They
have dilly-dallied with all Republican
measures looking to restriction or to a pro.
hibitory home tax. The Junior order,
and Patriotic societies and iberty-lovina
citizens individually have deluged the
Congress with petitions, but, they fall un
needed
The relief afforded will be at the ballot
box this fall, where every free man auC
citizen, who loves, respects and houori
this great government Of ours and wishes
20 preserve it from the inroads of non
assimulatng aliens and the scourge o.
their presence, can wipe out the present
majority party and place representative
in their stead pledged to pass suficien
restriction law.
1t is here that the societies which arr
arousing public sentiment on the subject
can be useful Their petitions are wei
enough, but their votes will make effec
tual in legislation, these desires, Much
as It is desired the people can look In vain
to the present Congress for relief. In al
the history of the Government there never
was in charge of the Ship Of State 6,
imbecile, incompetent and unpatriotic