The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-01-26

WHICH TAKES A EUROPEAN VIEW
OF EVERY QUESTION 14SVOLVING
AMERICAN HONOR AND AMERI-
CAN WELFARE. 1t has done
so habitually from the time
OF the revolution, when 1t was the hot
bed Of toryism, down to the present
day. 1t opposed the formation OF the
federal union in 1887. fought against the
adoption Of the federal constitution.
sympathiZed with the British in the war
Of 1872, aided and abetted the southern
rebellion from 1860 to 1860, although It
fattened on tributes Of northern states:
originated the draft riots in 1863. and.
still faithful to tOryism, violently op-
posed the recent intervention of the
United States in behalf Of Venezuela,
while every other American community
lauded the Intervention that halted the
aggressons Of Great Britain.
"As an appropriate climax. New York
city is the only city in the western hem
isphere where adulation unstintcd Is
IAC 1CWdI VI CNcIy llCu NOuldll, lOSI
to the instincts of pure motherhood,
who succeeds in selling her daughters TO
titled libertines Of foreign lands.
NOT A TYPICAL CITY.
IF New York be the most typical
American city, God pity America.
'Of course, l speak of New York, In
the aggregate. An honorable minority
OF its inhabitants are now and have ever
been true Americans.
And now for the rotten government
of the American metropolis. Who are
the rulers OF New York city? The
sachems of Tammany Hall. And what
is Tammany Hall? 1t is an organlza-
tion of public thieves, all over vhelmlng
majority of whose members are natives
OF Europe. Worse still, the leaders OF
them and the dominating influence
among them are none other than natives
of the British Empire. Products Of gen.
GRAFTON after generation of oppression,
OF poverty, of squalor.
Among the horde Of immigrants
from Europe there are necessarily many
thousands of illiterates and criminals
whose ignorance renders them fit 70 be-
come unconscious tools OF plunderers
Most of the educated, enterprising and
reputable emigrants do not stop at New
York, but push on to the west, leaving
the shiftless, illiterate and criminal to
settle where they first land, there form
ing a cesspool which Mr.. Stead calls
typically American. Those shiftless,
filthy and criminal classes from Europe
are rulers of New York.
OPPRESSION VS. LIBERTY.
1T is true that they are untitled for
the duties Of self-government Centu-
ries of monarchial oppression, from
which they so recently emerged, have
pregnated them with an inborn hatred
Of government in any form, and that
oppression is responsible for their de-
fects Of character. Oppression and pov-
erty are agencies that degrade men and
destroy nations. Liberty and enlighten-
ment develop and make nations invin-
chile.
But 1t is not the impeachment of
the American system Of government to
admit that the ignorant and vicious
from Europe who settle in New York
prove themselves lacking in the task of
governments; instead it is conclu-
sive proof to most minds that the E1l-
rOpean system is at fault.
Poor wretches who come over and
join Tammany Hall were not made
wretched by any act Of America. Far
from it. But the privileges of free cdu-
cation and consciousness of equal rights
guaranteed to every man are forces
which lift the children of those wretch
ed immigrants to a plane Of higher
destiny
What more could be said in behalf Of
the American republic, of a system Of
enlightened elf-government, than to
recite the historic truth that one or
two generations in America are suf-
ficient 70 transform the off-scourinss OF
Europe into men and women Of rugged
honesty, intelligence, thrift and patri-
Otic admiration for America and it's in
stitutions?
ANCESTRY OF NOTED MEN.
From such stock in the third and
fourth generations came our immortal
Lincoln, our Grant, Sheridan and Gar
field, and brave Mcpherson, who fell at
the battle of Atlanta Valiant Commo-
dore Farragut was descended from n
homeless Italian peasant, who took
refuge in America. The grandparents
of Electrician Edison came to America
in the steerage, with their only rosse--
sions tied in red handkerchiefs. Of all
the illustrlous names in American his
tory great many are descended from
ancestry which in it's first generation on
American soil was as utterly destll .e
OF capacity for seif-government as r,-
cent immigrants are who now COMPRISE
Tammany Hall.
when he rides to the country let him
take notice of nicely painted houses
and barns on almost every farm, no.
emitting to note the commodious
scioolhouses In every township. Then
let him drop into a farm homo for
stay Of several days. where he will fiud