Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-09-28

that of a pirate ship or robber band.
eve can hardly credit the statement
that there are 200, 900 armed anarchists
in the United States. If there is any
foundation for such an estimate, it is
indeed time that the government were
cOgnizant of the threatened danger"
Readers of WILLMAR TRIBUNE will
remember that we have before this
pointed out that if there are any anar-
chists in this country they will gen.
orally be found to be native born.
There are no foreign born anarchists
in this country except perhaps some
Cicilian banditti
The idea that anarchism or strikes
in this country could have been, or
can be prevented by restricting emf
grafton is ridiculous. Suppose emil
grafton had been prohibited 30 years
ago how would the country have
looked to-day? The Minnesota prair-
les would then still have been untitled.
For is it not the Scandinavian, Irish,
and German newcomer that has built
our railroads and made grain farm
ing out here possible? And so with
the mines in Pennsylvania and else
where. Without the miner emigrant,
English, Irish, Polish, and Hungarian,
there would be no coal mines of anv
extent in America to-day. Let the
native born citizen be content with the
credit of planning and bossing our
gigantic Industries in railroad build
ing and mining and numbering and so
forth, but let them not forget that
without the toll of the docile emigrant
laborer during the last 30 years there
would, and could, have been no such
development in this country as we see
to-day. How many native born Amer
leans are willing to go into the bowels
of the earth to dig coal for 60 cents a
ton. How many have worked with the
shovel on our road beds? Let those
who decry foreign labor answer if they
dare.
. Another thing. We further assert
that the foreign emigrant in the north
and the Negro in the south is the very
element that has saved this country
from internal revolution before this.
This element has so far been willing
to do the manual labor of the country,
and given the native born white ele-
ment chance to move up into more
refined sphere Of life-into the COM
mercial and professional spheres.
The real trouble with this country
now is that the children of the emf
grant have become Americanized and
educated on level with the native
born, and is rising at every point on
a level with the latter, so that this up
per class that look down on manual
labor has become too large-alto-
gether too large for the country. tits
this class that furnishes the profess
sional criminals, confidence men, light
ming ROD agents and tramps. It is
this class that furnishes hot bed for
real anarchism, and not the ignorant
foreigner.
Treat the foreigner fairly and he is
contented. His wants are few, and he
aspires to no higher plane in society
than the one he occupies.
Not so with the intelligent Ameri-
can. He is taught, and feels, that he
is the eq ual of any: other man. When
he sees courts of justice bow down to
rank, wealth and position, and the few
roll in wealth and luxury, while thou
sands morally and Intellectually their
equal, if not superior, suffer for the
necessaries OF life, he is apt to con-
clude that this government is a curse
instead of blessing and that the
sooner it is overthrow the better, no
matter what may come after.
The amazing thing is that our wise
statesmen don't see or pretend to see
the storm that is coming. G.. J.,
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