The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
ANOTHER CONSPIRACY.
The immigration Boom-What Does 1t Mean?-
Is it to Pack the Ballot Boxes?

The immigration Boom-What Does 1t Mean?-
Is it to Pack the Ballot Boxes2
Editor Of Representative:
There seems to be a great Immigra
ton Boom now in some localities. The
daily papers recently gave an account of
an organization in Kansas called the
Kansas Million immigration Club
There has also been another move in the
Northwest, taking in the two Dakotas
and Minnesota, with headquarters in ST.
Paul.
Now, from all the information / can
get this immigration boom is gotten up
and controlled by money loaners and
transportation companies. These immi
grants are expected to become farmers
or day-laborers! Well, let us see if there
is any demand for more of either of these
classes. l have recently visited the pro-
duce and grain markets, and find large
stocks and but few buyers here in the
city. Then If we should travel through
the country there are thousands OF: tons
OF farm products that will not pay for
transporting to market; and millions of
bushels of. grain, when sold, will leave
the farmer nothing for his labor From
this view Of the market we are forced to
the conclusion that we do not need any
more farmers.
Then let us take walk to the ''Intel-
ligence Offices" and Labor Exchanges, p
and what do we find there We find hun
dreds of men with anxious and care
worn faces standing around these places
looking for work. Many of them begging
from restaurants and private houses for
something to eat and place to sleep;
and, as before we are forced to the con-
clusiOn that there is no demand for any
more laborers. ~" ',-''e-
Then we ask again-what does this
immigration boom mean? There does
not seem to be any farmers or laborers
engaged in it. 1t is a corporation move
ment and must be in their interest.
The money and transportation COM
panies are like the skunk that slips into
your hen-coop and cellar, when you are
asleep, and eats your chickens and but
ter and other good things, and when he
is found out he will turn tail on you and
cover You all over with disagreeab!e
kind of liquid that does not smell like
peaches! So with the corporations. They
slip into the halls of the legislature and
lobby laws through in their own inter-
est that rob the producer of all the good
things: while they grow fat and rich off
other peoples labor. And, like the
skunk. they Will turn on you, through
the corporation press, and call you all the
bad names they can think of, and cause
fools to laugh and point the finger OF
scorn at you. until you almost feel like
running away from them, as you would
for the skunk. - + -, ,,s,. :, .s...ss
This is just what they will do when
| this immigration scheme is exposed.
| These special privileges are gotten BY
| legislation, and if they are not stopped
| by the same legislative power they will
| destroy the Republic, and bring ruin and
| desolation to the people, and finally on
! themselves. 4.ssfGs fs
| And now comes the point, that want
| to make, viz:-there. has been a little
band of noble patriotic, God fearing and
man loving men and women that has
been heartily and fearlessly, land at
great sacrifice, with the pen and on the
platform, and in various ways), calling
the peoples attention to these unjust