Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-22
THE RESTRICTION OF I'M
MIGRATION.

which originated the immigration bill
that was vetoed by Cleveland during
the last hours Of his administration,
has prepared a new measure which
will be promptly and persisten tly urg
ed upon the attention of congress in
the hope and expectation that it will
comm and majority in both branches
and receive the approval Of President
Mckinley.
This new bill, like the original
the one that was vetoed, makes the
educational test the only one to be
applied to immigrants. It excludes
call persons over 10 years OF age and
physically capable of reading and
writing, who cannot both read and
write the English language or some
other language; but an admissible i'm
migrant or person now in or here
after admitted to this country may
bring in or send for his wife, his chill
dren under IS years of age, and his
parents or grandparents over 5Oyears
of age, whether they are SO able to
read and write or not.''
This we suppose is in addition to
the present statute, which is intend
ed to shut out paupers and criminals;
and if it becomes a law, no foreigner
who is over fifteen years of age can
legally come into this country unless
he or she can read and write, except
/ the wives, children under 18, and par
ents over 30, OF men who are admis-
! sible. The feeling that something
must be done to restrict undesirable
immigration is very general in this
country While we are all foreigners,
or the descendants of foreigners, and
while we all know that the marvel
GUS development of our resources,
our rapid increase Of population and
accumulation of wealth is due in large
measure to the brain and Drawn that
have come to us from abroad, we al
SO know that along with the honest,
the Industrious and the intelligent,
who are desirable acquisition have
come swarms of criminals who have
fed from their native countries to
avoid punishment for their crimes;
paupers who have been shipped to us
to get rid of the burden of their sup
port, and agitators who have been
outlawed because they were disturb
ers of the peace.-Mirror and Farmer.
Since the war in Cuba began, Spain
has sent to that island 40 generals, 564
co mmissioned officers, 6, 1876 nom COM
missioned officers and 1871 men;
making, all told, an army of 1856, 1868
soldiers. The ocean liners and trans
port ships have taken back to Spain
over 20, 900 sick and cripp pied soldiers,
many of whom died en- route or after
having reached home. The official
reports give no information in regard
to the number of soldiers that have
died from the effects of ordinary sick
ness or acci dents; yet it is believed
that over 10000 have SO persisted.
Another 10000 have been killed by
yellow fever. Ten thousand more
have met their death on the battle
field or fro M the effects of wounds
there received. The total losses of
the Spanish army during the two
years of the war from d cath, sickness
and desertio MS, exceed 40, 900 and may
reach $4,000. The rainy and sickly
season is fast approaching, when there
will be furt her defamation of the
ranks of the Spaniards.- Exchange.
The wool schedule of the Dingley
bill, with it's II and II cent duties, is
not just what would be preferred by
many of the New England manufac
turers.
There is a general opinion among
them that the duties on the raw ma
terial are unnecessarily high. That
is the opinion of the Journal. But it
must not be forgot that tariff legis-
lation, like most other legislation, is
in the nature of compromise of con-
hicting interest. The wool growers,
or rather those of them for whom
Judge Lawrence of Ohio is a mouth
piece, have asked for even higher
duties than they have received Mr..
Dingley and his associates of the
Ways and Means Committee have re-
fused their extreme demands, and if
they granted more than our mer
chants and manufacturers think they I
should have done, it ought to be re-
membered that the present rates are I
only tentative. Congress in it's wis
dom may see fit to reduce the wool +
duties 90 lower notch, if sufficient I
arguments can be adduced why it
should do it.