Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-04
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of the inf, r;unate victims invite by their
deplorabls condition gracious provision
for their needs. These manifestations
against helpless aliens may be traced
through successive stages to the vicious
padrori system, which, unchecked by our
Immigration and contract-Iahor statutes,
controls thege workers from the moment
NJ landing on our shorcs. and farms them
ont In distant and often rude regions,
where their cheapening competition In
the fields Of bread winning toll brings
them into collision with other labor IN
tercsts. While welcoming, as we should
those who seek our shores TO merge them
selves IN our body police and win PERSONAL
competence by honest effort, we can not
regard such assemblcgcs Of distinctively
lien labors, hired out in the mas to the
profit OF alien speculat Ors and shipped
hither and tbither as the prospect Of gain
may dictate as otherwise than rcpugnsnt
to the spirit of our civilization, deterrent
to Individual advancement, and hin
ORANGES 10 the building up o. stable com
munitles resting upon tb1 wholesome
ambitions of the citizens and constituting
the prime factor in the prosperity and
progress Of our nation. II legislation can
reach this growing evil 1t certainly
should be attempted.
Japan has furnished abundant eVl
dence Of her vast gain in every trait anu
characteristic that constitutes nation
greatness We have reason for congratula-
ijon In the fact that the government OF
the United States by the exchange oil
liberal treaty stipulatiOns with the new
japan was the first to recognize her won
derful advance and to extend to her the
consideration and confidence due to her
national emil ghteBment and progressive
character.
The boundary dispute which lately
threatened to embroil Guatemala and
Mexico has happily yielded to pacific
counsels, and Its determination has, by
the Joint agreement of this part les been
submitted to the arbitration of the u. :.
minister to Mexico The commission
appointed under the convention of Febru-
AIRY 49, 1889, to set new monuments
along the boundary between the United
States and Mexico has completed Its task.
Asa sequel to the failure to scheme
for the colonization in Mexico of negroes
mostly cmi9rants from Alabama under
contract a great number of these helpless
and suffering people starving and smitten
with contagious disease, made their way
or were assisted to the frontier where, in
wrctched plight, they were quarantincd
by the Texas authorities. Learning Of
their destitute condition, | directed "a
lions to be temporarily furnished them
through the war department. AT the
expiration of their quarantine they were
conveyed by the railway companies at
comparatively nominal rates to tie
hDmpss In Alabama uDDu my ASSURANCE,
In the absence of any fund available for
the cosl of their transportation, that i
would recommend to Congress an appro
priation for its payment. | now strongly
urge upon Congress the proprety of max
ing such an appropriation. 1t should be
remembered that the measures taken
were dictated not only by sympathy and
humanity, but by u conviction that it was
not compatible with the dignity of this
government that so large body of our
dependent citizens should be thrown for
relief upon the charity of a neighboring
tar