Bisbee daily review., 1902-07-06
IMPORTING TROUBLE

The RivifMPd not agrSe with all the editdrial airhsions whIch appear in the Los Angeles Times, but the fol- lowing article receives pur most hearty endorsement:
 Tt is said thats dsrihg the past: six months, Ahe numher of. immigrants passing through Nv York from Flu: rope has been more than 800, ,6o0. and the estiisstes of. passAhser asents bf the totaa ,foTl the ;year is fully SOe,7 900. This will exceed last years i'm migration by about 50 per cent.
 This immense increase in foreign immigration lends additional impor- tance and interest to bill now before Congress- Asdispatch from Washing ton announces that Senator Penrose, chairman of the Committee on I'm mi grationi says an agreement has been practically reached on the Shattuc bill. substantially as it was adopted by the House, and it will probably be re ported to the Senate early in De -sember. This bill carries an educa- tionaltest restriction as an amend ment Senators from western states are said to be doubtful of the expedi- ency of q his plan. believing that i. would have an i'll effect on the labor market. They have represented to the Senate committee that there is al most a panic in the labor market in certain states Kansas and Nebraska are both clamoring for men to work in the harvest fields, while the rail roads are having difficulty in gettins- laborers for6 construction work If
 This is somewhat narrow and un- patriotic view to take of the question. These, GOO, 1000 foreigners who. will probably have landed in the United States during the current year, repre- sent, it is trsie, valuable acqliisitio;, to the 0brawnr andi sinewss of, the Efu public, but they also, unfsrtnTxaelpf represent something besfdes that Of late years the 'efiafacteT df.'the Eu- ropea4 .ujBnigrationE to this ,eoaatry has been rapidiyesdeaesioratfng,. so that Ho@s the f6anKsh of fithese imnl- grants include. an unpleasantly and morally low grade people; men who are a source, not of strength, but of morally low grade people; men who contribute largely to the lexpfnse. of our courts of law, our penitentiaries and oD insane sasxluMs; men who are largely responsible for the anarchistic outbreaks that are becoming so ire quent in our large centers ef popp- lation; men who occasionally openly advocate the killing of American citi- zens and the destruction of property.
 No, possible loss that may be sui fered by an American industry. how. ever severe, can be urged as a sufh eient reason for the free admission into the United States of; these unde sirable people, who never can be made to understand, much less to appreciate the advantages and responsibilities o1 a free form of government. Undoubt edly most of the unrest, and disturb ance, and violence that is, so common in the, coal-mining regions of the eastern states is directly attributable to the selfish policy of employers ir importing, and employing large gang, of ignorant and smi-brutish 1laborers drawn from the lower classes of lths less progressive countriesiof Europe Better. far, would it be that ,ourr in dustriss should somewhat languish than that we should continue, to i'm port into this country these vipers who turn to sting the hand tha nourishes hem This, however, is no necessary. There, are sufficient mel in the United States to do theswofk q the country, if thy were only properly distributed and suficien inducementl were offered. When . commodity ii scarce, tAe peice'6f itJ naturally rises Labor. being essntially . commodity ta same 'is true in regard. to it. \ would be far better for employers :< pay a higher rate of wages; to ;Amerf ean citizens to, pss ,cprrsspondinsb more for Hhst they eonep4e, than 5o. - to encoasae1 thA AmhigrntioA ixtr this country of herdJ Uf f0fagnerl who aseAgnSuhp6p 6pselcNBtAs 6p6S@ s.d evstS 6nesde wAoh | 1ks1 & time, to cost this country . thousand