The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-05-24
THE REPUBLIC IN
GRAVE DANGER
49,
THE TIDE OF MIGRATION IS
sURGING IN TOO
CONSTANTLY.
DR.. REDE ON TIMELY TOPIC
The Well Known Pastor Discusses
Interestingly a Thoroughly
Live Subject
Matter.
{ BY WHY'S Rede, D. D.


It is in no alarmist spirit that this
cry is raised. America is SO young
and strong that she can stand a great
deal. But there is a limit to her en-
durance. Towards that limit we are
rapidly and recklessly rushing. We
are so self-confdent of our ability to
carry the enormous burdens which we
have assumed that we do not hesitate
to take upon ourselves others which
do not belong to us. Thus we are
jeopardizing the most sacred and i'm
portant interests. We are permitting
and even fostering great movement
which, if it goes on, will undermine
our. civilization and wreck our free
institutions. We are encouraging the
emigration of millions of foreigners
into our midst. There would be lit
tie danger in this, if they were peo-
pie of intelligence and high character.
But they are not Nine out of ten the
foreigners who are focking to our
shores belong to the lower classes OF
population in the countries from
which they come. Few of them have
any elucation. Hardly any of them
are property holders. Some of them
are criminals, anarchists and paupers
America has become the dumping
ground for the refuse of Europe. She
is welcoming within her borders
mightey army of aliens, who by birth,
breeding and past experience have
been disqualified for the exercise
of citizenship under free govern
met, and who are hostile to our cher
ished principles. They are a danger
oals element, almost impossible for
us to assimilate, whogare already max
ing trouble and will make more later
on. Every ship load Of them increas-
es the Peril and hastens the day of
our scalamity Some day, perhaps
when it is too late. we shall awaken
to a realization of the serious danger
of the situation. 1t is high time that
We should face the issue.
Do we realize what is really going
on? Foreign immigration has been in
creasing With Startling rapidity of
late years. This year it threatens to
reach the highest figure ever known.
in the last nine months 100000 for
,eigners have come to the United
States. The great bulk of them have
come, not from England, Germany,
Sweden and France, which furnish the
best class of emigrants, but from Italy,
Austria, Russia and Turkey. They rep
resent the worst elements or Euro
pean civilization, the most ignorant,
degraded, unprOgresSive, and lawless
people in the world who make any
claim at all to civilization. They are
a menace to our free institutions, be-
cause it will take them centuries to
reach the point where they will be
fit for the ballot, but they will get it
almost at once They will crowd our
native born people out of employment
fill our prisons and asylums, and
make rioting and bloodshed whenever
their baser passions are aroused. They
are coming in upon us like flood,
submerging our cities in human filth,
and befouling our social and politi-
cal life.
Last Monday one single steamer
landed 5000 of them in New York,
mostly Polish Jews. This sort of
thing cannot go on without the most
serious consequences. 1t must be
stopped, But how? Our politicians
encourage the evil, because they hope
to buy votes from these human cat
tie, The great steamship companies
buy legislative protection to help them
enrich themselves at the expense OF
tlseir country. The masses OF the
people are too busy getting rich to no
tice what is going on. Meanwhile
we are drifting towards the rocks.
We do not feel the danger greatly
in the south, because here the foreign
born element is small The negro,
with all his faults, is a far less dan
gerous person and better citizen
than the Italian or Polish immi-
grant. We have less to fear from
him. We therefore do not realize
the gravity of the situation. But from
the very fact that our business inter-
ests are not directly involved and that
we can view the question at long
range, we ought to be able to see
it more clearly than our northern
brethren do. Our interests as well
as theirs are at stake. Our native
land is in peril Can we not find
some way to save her, before it is
too late? -...t .----.t--..