The age-herald., 1897-10-10
TECHNICS FROM
 CURRENT TOPICS,

Unrestricted immigration is the great est menace Ito the perpeil1ity of the American republic. The lax laws now in operation regarding the influx of for- eigners endanger the foundations of this government as noghing else can possibly do. Immigration, regulated and con. erolled by enac'tments, looking ito 4hsd preservation of the furdamental pr:nei- ples of this greatest of all republics does not necessarily threaten or endanger tho welfare of the various states constituting the union. But the incoming of great hordes of people frofm all the countries of Europe-with the one desire upper most in every newcomers mind to se- cure focihodl in this couritry. where 'Hhere is absolute liberty of speech and acton-can but result in the direst ca la1nities to Americans and American in- stltn.ions. That America has room for all those foreigners. who bring with them intelligence, Unfit, good morals, good health and a profound regard for law and order, the most rafbid and intense American will readily admt. That there should not be permitted to land upon the shores of the United States single immigrant who is fleeing from the re- straiDts of rightful authority, and, the necessity for labor, the maddest theorise will not claim.
 Flooding certain portions of America with the restless, worthless people of other usItions has introduced into the United States ta1e germs of anarchy, the seeds of communism, which have sprung into life on more than one oc- casion, and which could only be con- trolled by the strong arm of the nation- al government. Dhseontent and tistrust have followed close upon the heels of wholesale fimmigraton. Politics and poll itcans lnave been tools outlines in the alands of unnuiet foreigners, who desire Ito dominate state and municipal issues as soon as they can intelligently speak the English language. These same im- migrants come as hungry seekers after food and homes, but develop under the genial Ameitcan sunshine into office- seekers and political bosses. America Is for Americans, and stands ready to well come all sturdy, honest, industrious law abiding men and women, who find theip way aljtlher aetuated by the one and only desire to become good, upright hard- working citizens. But America should close her gates to the immigrants who chafe under the regulations of any or- dinary national laws, and who leave thetr countries for their countries good,
 Every year about 900,0O0 able-bodied male foreigners find their way to this country, and by their coming reduce the wages of the laborers already here. Competition for employment results only in benefitting the employers and with4 out cheapening the cost of every day living, they succeed in lessening the wages of the working men, and work ing women. The deduction of pay for services rendered does not initiate against the immigrant, but against the American, for the former has been ac- customsd in his European home to smaller wages than any American em- ployer would dream of offering to an employe. It is only the home man who suffers He loses his self-respect be- cause of grinding, hopeless poverty, grows reckless and defiant and frequent- ly ends life as a tramp or a criminal Amsrica must restrict immigration, or deadlier germs than those of yellow fever or leprosy will find their way through American seaports.
 There is sickly sentimentality, which the press and politicians too of,en take advantage of when this serious issue of immigration sets the people to ..@Irt zJasx~ this is a free country, with vile open gates, which every one has right 10 enter, unquestioned and unmolested. Ofttimes press and people approach the subject with bated breath, for fear Of being miseonstrued by the ubiquitous foreigners, who frequently hold the bal- ance of power at the ballot boxes. P0.iti- cal workers have so long resorted to contemptible votegetting experiences that it has ceased to be wonder That the immigrants stand today in the att titude of the future rulers of America.
 
 Not until the genuine American spirit so possesses the people of these United States that they will arise in the ma- jesty of their might and demand new and wholesome immigration laws will the future of the republic be assured. The interests of the people on the Pa- cific slope demanded the exclusion of the Chinese from the ports of the United States and the welfare of the citizens in the other sections of the union must eventually declare against the opening of any port to unrestricted immigration from any country.
 Some of Americas best and nciblest citizens were born under foreign skies. To them be given all honor and regard, but that fact does not diminish the evil that turks in the fax laws now con- trolling immigration. The peop'e should be aroused to the danger that confronts them. BALL.
 Might Have Done Worse.
 From the Chicago Record.