The record-union., 1896-03-30

| sisted to cross the ocean and settle IN
Charlotte, n. c., ne says that the Sec
retary exhibited to him a letter from
the immigrant, who wrote of the diff
Guilty he had in getting the money order
cashed, as he could net find anyone to
/ identify him, SO he forged the name of
n merchant, taken from shop sign, on
a blank of Identification and succeeded
! in getting the money The Secretary
was amused by the sharp practice of the
criminal, and told the story as an evil
dence Of their success as a charitable
institution
! Speaking further III his report of the
classes of immigrants that had been
permitted to come to the United States
he says, ''They believe the most extreme
doctrine taught ana are a menace to
the republic. The cnasm between capi-
/ tai and labor is wide enough now. We
/ should guard against an invasion of
such hordes as we would against an
armed host or pestilence." The
knowledge possessed by every man of
the character of these immigrants cor
roborates the statements of these Off
cials. In my own State couple of
years since we went almost hysterical
w CL Tic ESCdpt VI SOIIlC 1NUfoSicA4A II
ers from Siberia and refused the requi-
sition Of the Russian Government for
their return as escaped criminals under
the sentimental plea Of giving asylum
to all the poor of the world. Every one
CT these escapes turned out to be GRIM
inal and a murderer. The last one,
| Kovalev, in December, 1894, murdered
an old man and his wife in Sacramento
and will soon be hanged for his crime.
We must protect ourselves in the Ian
guage of Mr.. Schulteis against "An in
vasion of such hordes as we would
against an armed host or pestilence."
Inspection laws and requirements are
of little or no avail. L. L. Alexander,
| Honorary Secretary to the Board of
Guardians for the relief of the Jewish
poor in England, says: 'It is notorious
that with all the stringency of the
! American regulations few are ever pro-
hibited to enter There is but one
| remedy and that is to cast off the gang
plank between the steamship and Castle
Garden and thus prevent the landing
/ upon our shores of any more of these
| foreign birds of passage" or alien
| labOrers who come here to take the
| bread from the mouth of American
workmen. We must perforce keep what
we have and try to improve them. If
they are not polluted by the influx of
others we may in time make decent
citizens of them. Let us keep out every
one who applies from now henceforth
and thus we will rid ourselves of all
undesirable immigrants. Everyone ad-
mits that many of these immigrants
are undesirable. It is absolutely i'm
possible to sift the good from the bad
| because none are good. They are
simply graded in badness. Shut the
door tight against all is the only remedy.
The people see the necessity for ac-
ton. Why do I speak so positively?
Because the history of our country for
the past fifteen years shows that all it's
legislation has been intended to restrict
immigration, not to favor or to increase
1t. No one has dared to advocate laws
to favor the addition to our already
over-crowded labor ranks. On the con-
trary, everyone has studied to devise
some remedy for the existing evil and
to stay the inroads upon the body DO
lite of this cancer which is eating out
its vitals. The appeals from county
and State conventions, from various
leagues under different names. from
nearly all the newspapers of the land,
! the introduction of such bills as those
proposed by Congressman Mccall and
| stone and Corliss, the organization of
such body as the American Protective
Association (of which 1 am not mem
ber), all show the condition of the pub
Ilc mind, and are all directed to the ex-
cIuslon OF immigrants from the United
States although additional remedies are
suggested.
Every proposition, except the one I
favor, is but mere palliative intended
I'd soothe the patient and to temporize
WIth the evil My bill is curative in its
e1ects. 1t viii forever stop the evil.
cut off the supply of virus and restore
to healthy condition the labor of
America. 1t is the labor of the nation
which is its life blood. If we cure the
blood we cure the body We are under
absolutely no obligations to the foreign
ers. They come here at their own risk
Ihey are admitted to our shores solely
as matter of favor on our part They
must observe every rule we adopt They
nave no rights that we are bound to re-
spect. Any objection made to any of
the bills offered to your committee on
the ground that it will impose trouble
or hardship upon an immigrant is far
clcal. We ought to impose hardships
We ought to make it difficult for them
to enter America, and in my judgment
we ought to absolutely prohibit them
from coming. We ought to tell the truth
to them. To announce TO them that
there is no market for labor in the East
except by crowding the American la
borer from his employment We all
understand that this immigration has
been stimulated by the efforts of rail-
road. and steamship companies, who
have published alluring tales to the
poor of the Old World concerning the
land of America, and we should pro-
claim the truth in regard to the land of
America to these immigrants We
should say to them that there is none, or
but very little land in America for a
poor man. That although we have
millions of acres unsettled, it is mostly
land that cannot be cultivated without
irrigation and that these circulars are
false. We should say to them what is
the truth, namely, that we do not need
any more laborers.
1t is our duty to legislate for America.
We have a precedent for our action. Mr..
Schulteis says in his report: 1.-The Aus
tralian Colonies not only shut out pau
pers, but foreigners who were not pau
pers, and did so in direct defiance of the
law of England, their home Govern
ment. The answer made by the Premier
of New South Wales, Sir Henry
Parkes, was: I care nothing about
your cobweb of technical law. 1 am
obeying law far superior to any