The Irish standard., 1896-05-16
! lHERlE ROOM TOR MORE
To Qusstion Of Immigration Ably Dis
ou.sed BY Members Of the
Boston Club.
Why ITALIANS ARE PRowAED UP0H

WHY ITALIANS ARE PR0WAED UP0A
u Race That Has contrlbutsd to the
S, Worlds Advancement In
Various Ways.
q
& The Boston Reform Club, at meeting
recently discussed the question of the re-
striction of immigration.
SS The memorable speech Of the evening
q was this by William Lloyd Garrisons
Mr.. Garrison said:
"a nation of immigrants, and the
children Of immigrants, having obtained
assumption OF power. Show up your
Ing the feasibility Of barring out other
immigrants.
Your authority, gentlemen, Of the re-
strictive persuasion, for this enormous
assumption of power. Show uh your
title deed. In the United States where a
thousand million can live in peace and
plenty under just conditions, who gives
to seventy millions the right to monopo-
lie this territory? :.
In the North End of Boston huddled
together are 21,00O foreigners. of which
10000 are italians. Your law would
have kept a large proportion Of them out.
They are an industrious, thrifty and pro-
gressive people. Their children are eager
and quick to learn. Their grandchild-
rem you will hardly be able to distinguish
from your own. Have they degraded
Boston?
GAS for their readiness to quarrel, al
official prominent in the reformatory in
fuences among them, expressed to me his
belief that there would be more fighting
i in the crowded hives they swarm in
should it's present occupants be replaced
by theological students.
1.-THE base politics of our crowded cit
+ les cannot be laid to the door of aliens
so much as to the indifference of Ameri-
can born citizens. The same Is true OF
national politics.
s .s stLet;us try TO understand the true i'm
migrant and separate him from the
mythical picture of the alarmist. The
Irish, the German and Scandinavian
. have conquered their position. They
have acquired wealth and power and are
safe from anti immig grafton threats be-
cause no politician dare prescribe them
or do without their votes. So after the
lect the down-trodden, the helpless on
which to practice our new found doctrine
of exclusion that is to accomplish what
Christianity and the democratic idea
have failed to reach. Experience with
thu negroes and the Indians have pre-
pared us to cope with the Chinese, the
Italians the Hungarians and the Rus
sian Jews. They cannot effectually re-
taIiate at the ballot box
tsThe first notable influx of immigrants
in this country was when English mis-
government and landlordism drove to our
shores the peasantry Of Ireland. The So
called native American sentiment was
aroused in hostility. Religious differen-
ces mingled with race prejudice. The
Broad street riot IN Boston and the burn
ing Of the Ursuline convent in Charles
town are not the parts of Massachusetts,
history we like to recall.
"But what an invaluable addition to
our population the Irish proved. with all
their faults and aggrawations! They laid
j the foundations for our maternal pro-
.gress, doing cheerfully the work of dig
cling and building, of hod-carrying, rail-
road and canal building, in fact, assum-
ing every occupation which Americans
declined.
4 ~Times and manners have changed.
The evolution has been remarkable; the
rejected stone has become the head of the
/: corner and the descendants of many OF
these immigrants are indistinguishable
from ourselves.
NAPLES is the chief distributing point
Of the Italian race. Hunger, and not
religious or political persecution, causes
the exodus. They are not paupers-ltal-
@n,n ~ o@kr 70 1n nj
form testimony of our consuls Is that in
sinew of Europe.
whoever studies the problem of the
Russian and Polish Jews will find no
sadder chapter in history. The victims
of barbarous and cruel persecution,
driven from their home and country,
these patient, long suffering unfortunates
are everywhere repealed and nowhere
welcomed.
1T is to be hoped that In this new land
they may find space to grow and blossom
out. The possibilities of a race which
has contributed the worlds greatest writ
ers, musicians, artists and statesmen
& must not be under estimated. In time,
with liberation and justice, they will
doubtless add their contribution to this
/ countrys greatness.
."This anti-immigration movement at
tacks the problem at the wrong end.
"The wrong and unjustidable monopo-
5ly Of land is the chief reason why, in a
country of such extent and resource as
ours, employment is scarce, and men and
women contend with each other for per-
mission to sell their labor It seems that
the Lords land has become the land
lords. The few control the sources of
wealth. The many are disinherited.
4 Land monopoly, trade restrictions and
militarism are the common enemies upon
which the guns of reformers should be
4 trained, not upon fugitives from Euro
tpean and Asiatic oppression
ARCHBISHOP RYAN'S Wit
!. The Philadelphia Prelate Keeps Those
About Him in Good Humor.
The stories that are told of Archbishop
Ryan's wit are public property, and
q would fill small volume. Like other
wits, he has suffered from the habit Of
crediting some people with witticislns
i which other people invented. He did re-
fer to Archbishop Ireland as the conse-
GRATED blizzard, but he lid not call the
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