The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-03-19

10 heur the two able speakers selected
to discuss tMS two important sociology
cal topics nf "Our Foreign Friends
Among Us" and "IIow to Make Norfolk
u Better City"
Colonel William Lamb, who was TO
have spoken on the former topic with
,ha Rev. DR.. NJ. b. Wharton was un-
Gwoidably absent, and this Doctcr hnm-
died the SubjEcc alone. The Rev. Mr..
Moon5' WAS to have spoken with Mayor
Mayo last Thursday. bull as he was sick
al the time. he delivered his address
last evening.
Ma. G. b. Ferr5&se presided over
tlra meeting. which was ope:1ad with
prayer by the Rev. DR.. J. j. Hall. DR..
Wharton MES then introduced by the
president. The D'rI.-r said the problem
Of Il for=igG, population was presented
To Americans more forcibly than to any
othsr nation, because We arc n a,ew
country, and migratory movements all
trend tcward new Countries. lie review
cd the history of Such movements, Er.,l
III cnumerating their benefits, IL, said:
What has immigration done for
American Why just let us look at the
financial feature alone. We find the
average amounis brought by each immi-
grant 70 81 Ishcrr; 500. making n b.rtal
,cf some $4,000. 00O, 900 since Immigrants
immigration has strengthened us in va
r!ous ways. 1T has made us invinclble
m arms. Why, my frisnds, foreign i'm
migrants whipped the South Thea, 100,
they strengthen our educational insti-
tutions They &c. the idea of carly
and campletc eduC2t!Ons in their rntivc
countries and they have bcs7, instru-
mental in the establishing Of our grc2I,
institutions of learning Thus we see
n Ia IL
progn'ss, as well as our material de-
assignment.
Briefly summing up, Immigration
mas m2ds America. Therefore. we should
Welccme it. and we do. This vast, free
DOMAIN can accommodate all of the
right kind.
lSut ther2' is no question which has
Hot dark sid2. Immigraticn has a
very dark side. There must be wise re-
stric,ions Sr, else injury will inralllbly
result 70 HhlS country. We have Grim
inal exclusion laws aid q)auper exclu-
son laws, and th;tse have, tp Grated ben
efficiently. Then those anarchists ,vl,o
i'eelHG from dSspotasm. desire ITO over
urn even free institutions as.rl IS, sub-
SN'htsi tNSrcfor th;:r belief n Dando-
monium in which law and order have
no Piece. This class must he attended
's! Then there is Chinese Immigration,
winch Is, perhaps, the most objcctio:rq
vjrorons,,, ,nr,r;I mas aiready bS'2n
.>- 's tt'til cted.
orirnd n,,,',,a "o VIII TINS vast ac-
ana !, vn,,. uee"lileS our problem
we must convert QIil these pcoplc ~
~ t"',itE we must teach these
people the Edible. introduu. them !n.tl
surronnd ,bn,,, ''u ,,. n"nuas SCHOOLS and
nusncn W. ~. "'.i oul enr:tisEl IN
sh,-,.,, AZ 'aN ~ great iofei%!a mis-
~ ~ 80 49, n.Hilt, as ~ Wche and
hovn 49,, I I"t,,,..t IL we shnli
m,,t,oa 6iSao CHRISTIAN popular2on
We can h,, NV =, 500 r, VI humanity and
~, ~ ~, t'na' W 'uliiorS OIL war without
I ~. r,5 nut '';N as an enlightened and
cnmn,s" ''''''''' we can meet all
,rhl ,,a,
o-,,c(,,.n Seu WIN patriotic
vail ""'S' po4hteu MS discourse
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another elsrwl,arn g. ,r ,, nwn anu
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