The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-12-12
MORE WORRY AND FRET.

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SATURDAY. :. DECEMBER IL, 1895
MORE WORRY AND FRET.
The bundle of unparalleled wisdom
and learning who edits the Chicago.
Chronicle, that stanchest of stanch
apostles OF the gospel of gold, is sorely
perplexed. and has thrust upon him
an accumulation of causes for worry.
This country is decidedly in. need of
fixing, and the aforesaid editor is the
only man in it that can successfully do
the fixing. But for the, first time in
his life he does not know just@how to
20 about the task, and since the re.
sponsibility is so terrible he is in an
awful dilema.
Some wholesome and degenerate
son OF Adam, degenerate because he.
Is so far removed from his illustrions
ancestor. and who had an abundance
of time though very little conscience,
has fixed up table showing the per-
centage of foreign born persons in the
states that cast their vote for McKin-
ley and in the states that gave q
majority for Bryan.
The Mckinley states reported 1892
per cent, foreign .sborni while the
Bryan states show only 12.14 per cent.
Among the states which gave the
great majority for Mckinley were
Massachusetts, whose foreign. born
population is 1896 per. cent. of the
total; New York is 26.19 per cent and
Wisconsin, 30.98 per cent. Among
those giving the smallest Mckinley
majorities were Indiana, 6.67 per cent.
foreign and Kentucky, 3.l9 per cent
foreign. On the other hand the states
which rolled up the biggest pepulist
majorities were Georgia. with only
O.66 per cent foreign born; Alabama,
O.9s per cent. and Mississippi. 0.62 per
cent.
Not satisfied with the devilment he
had done in fixing up the table the
unregenerate statistician had the tenn
Gritty to send q copy Of it to the Chicago
editor, knowing full well his unkindly
feeling toward foreigners, and also
recolecting some Of the ante-election
editorials that appeared in the Chron-
iele to the effect that the foreign-born
citizens, Influenced by Altgeld, would
vote almost as unit for Bryan. The
Chicago journalist set himself to ex-
planning the, TO him, unfortunate show
ing of the table, and here 10 the way
he did it:
"Leaving out the mining-eamp
group, the proportion of foreign-born
persons in the Bryan states is very
small, and leaving out those which
gave small .majorities from the Nc
Kinley states. the percentage OF for
eigners is very large.
9 1.-THE truth is that while q portion
of our foreign-born population may be
somewhat sshaky in their political
philosophy, they are more sound than
Americans on the money question, |
and the sons of foreigners are sounder
shan the grandsons.n -
That was as far as he got. He stop
ped short, and in fact the outlook was
awful enough to have stopped even a
less stont-hearted individual than the
learned Chicago scribe. Herould not
bear to proceed into future genera
tions and undertake to forten how
they would vote on quoseio.-eff +
30 vital Importance to him Foc.if
the sons are bad, the grandsons are
worse, what can he expect of the great
grand-sons, after they have been "con-
by American influences for
three generations? What can he ex-
pect when the great grand-sons of our
citizens get q whack at
the ballet box? How can he then ex-
pect to hold the United States down to
3 European financial system?
) Evidently the learned quill shower
solitoquized thusby: "What chance
is there to keep up foreign policies in
this country, anyway? What is to be
done to keep it from adopting systems
Of its own and going to the deminition
immigration is falling off
right now when it Is needed,
and here isl crop of American babies
coming on at an awful rate and grow
Ing bigger and bigger every year.
Over two millions of them last year,
Ind the Lord only knows how many
here will be before this year shall
BASS into history This is an awful
Ispect for one who like the editor. of
he Chicago Chronicle appears SO op-
,osed to the voice of foreign-born
,itizens in American politics., even
.oing so far as to insist that they
hould be here twenty-one years before
,eing allowed to vote, and at the same
lime is SO anxious to fasteh upon
he Americans an English monetary
ystem. 1t is simply awful to contem-
'latel No wonder he worries and frets.