The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-12
R.AMAPO WATER
SCANDAL MAY
DECIDE 80
ELECTORAL VOTES.

Chief Devery was forced to act and
the Tivoli has been closed. The sense
less brutality of Devery's favorite off,
GERS was shown by their arbitrary ar
rest of ninety-one wenen and the re-
lease of all but three of 142 men found
in the place. If the women were guilty
the men were equally so, but there hap
pened to be some politicians in the
crowd, so all were let go with a eau
ton. The fact that the magistrate
fined only three of the women is fur
Their proof that ali of the other female
prisoners were Illegally arrested. 1t
only shows how necessary is reform,
and some day the people of New York
will wake up to the fact.
The assassination of King Humbert
by an anarchist who drew the fatal lot
at a conspiracy conference in Paterson,
N. J., calls attention to the loose ad-
ministration of our loosely drawn i'm
migration laws. 1t is estimated that
our national increase of population dur
ing the decade Just ended is 100000.
half of which is due to immigration
For 2 quarter of a century We have
been. receiving the offscourings of
Europe and among the pestilentiai tide
the anarchists came unnoticed and I'M
needed. The evil of unrestricted immi-
grafton lies in the fact that the worst
elements are stranded in the ports of
entry, just as most of the Chinese lin
ger on the Pacific coast. Organized
labor watches for contract laborers,
but no care is exercised regarding the
multitude which flows in weekly waves
to our shores. These anarchists could
and ought to have been excluded, and
the nations shame as a harborer of as
sassins thereby avoided. 1t has been
my fortune as a newspaper man to
have some personal knowledge of these
nihilists and anarchists, and I have
always found them bold in utterance
d undisguised in sentiment regarding
policy of numbering heads of gov
lment. Today President Mckinley
nds in as much danger of assassina-
n as any king, queen or emperor in
+. urope, probably. more so if any effort
made to crush the anarchists still
iomiciled in this country. Professional
oeggars, organ grinders, thieves. pau
pers and ignorant hordes come by the
thousand to foul the pure current of
American life. Shut the gates, even if
it does reduce the average of increase
in population.
Official statistics show that during
were 941. Ill immigrants admitted at
this port, nearly one-third, or more
than SO. ZOO, being of Italian birth, 10000
of whom could not read or write. The
remainder of the immigrants We're
ArmenianS, BohsY7N 's1l.s CroatianS,
SlaVs, Firms, French, Germans. He
brews, Greeks, English. Irish, Poles,
Lfthuanians, Maygars, Scandinavians,
Rutheneans and SlOVakS- The report
SUCCESSFULLY says that "a, majority of
the arrivals were undesirable acquisi-
lions to the population. Most or the
immigrants had less than $50 each, the
remainder averaging less than SO each.
In other words, we have had dumped
down upon US an army of paupers. and
as few of them go out of the city, there
are over a quarter Of million of men,
women and children added to the poor
est classes of New York City, thereby
reducing the value of labor, increasing
the number of men unemployed and
adding to the financial burden of the
metropolis. These figures tell their own
story, and should convince every
thoughtful man of the necessity for re-
stricting this vile and Objectionable
tide.
The Objectionable character of the
present immigration to this country
was never better realized than by the
action taken at a recent meeting OF
Italians to manifest their grief at the
murder of King Humbert. The meet
ing was addressed by the Italian con-
sui, Cavillier G. Branchi, and the 1,5O0
men present, at his suggestion, took
the oath of allegiance to their new king,
Victor Emmanuel III. Yet fully one
half, if not more, of these Italians are
? AF init
States, and, therefore, stand foresworn,
and are traitors to their adopted coun-
try. If such a course were taken in
any European country deportation
would inevitably follow, but in these
national campaign days the incident
! Will be ignored and forgotten, for votes
are valuable.
The recent death of Ballard Smith
at one time a deservedly distinguished
/ Journalist of this city, is another re-
minder of the fatal dangers attending
yellow Journalism. Poor Ballard died in
! an insane asylum. after years Of suffer
| ing. and his mental decay was entire
| " due to the strain endured while serV-
! ing Pulitzer on the World. The death
| of E. o. Chamberlain. also of the
/ World, came quicker, but his insanity
was due to the same cause. There is
another man still in harness who may
/ go the same way if ne does not watch
/ out Feeding upon sensationalism is
unhealthy diet, and the work of manu-
featuring the article is apt to upset the
brains of even talented men, but pro
prietors of newspapers do not care, for
as one of them once cynically remark
ed: They can always buy brains b!
the pound" SPRUCE BEEKMAN.