Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-06-21
AN OBJECT LESSON TO THE SOUTH

The following picture is from re
cent editorial from the Memphis
Commercial-Appeal and while writ
ten from a different standpoint and
for different purpose than the one f.
which we will apply it. still it por
trays conditions that should receive
the most earnest thought of every
loyal American citizen. wherever he
may reside: but more especially do
we commend it, with the lessons
log cally deducible therefrom. t. the
press and people of the south:
This New North seems to have no
regard fer the law, for good govern
ment, for honest elections. for the
rule CT the people Democracy has
yielded to the boss. One hundred
thousand illegal voters are admitted
ly registered by the Republican ma
chine in Philadelphia. The mob is
cock of the walk i'll Chicago. The
thieves are lords CT the ascendant
in Pittsburg Every citizen in Rhode
Island practically is for sale. New
Jersey glories in her corporate rot
tenness. New York is the rendeZ-
vClls fer official blackmail and c0rpor-
ate plunder. And so it goes The
New North seems 10 be without NOR
ais. without virtues. without honesty
and without any recognition whatever
Of the elemental principles of popular
government.
We assume the entire ccrrectness
of this picture and give il out strong
est conviction that his deplora bic
state of affairs could exs1 in this
country from only one cause and that
the lowering of our standard CT citi-
zenship through the indiscriminate
admission of Immigrants. Recent
exposures cf secret agent Cf our
government sent to Europe for the
purpose of investigating the charae-
ter Of the immigrants coming to this
country. a Mr. Braun. show that we
are receiving with the knowledge and
connivance of foreign governments,
their pauper and criminal classes.
This trusted agent cf the govern
nent makes this as an official report
10 the president and he further says
tat it has been and is now the prac-
tee of some of these governments
L. make il condition With some
criminals that they will be released if
they will go tC the United States.
near Budapest from which pauper
children are taken and placed in the
lands of fictitious parents tc be
Youeht to this country at 50 much a
lead.
A still further frand exists in the
i. suance of counterfeit naturalization
apers so that thousands come into
the cities Of the north and at once en-
ter under the control of political ward
Losses. who vote them in lob lots
for money price Does anyone
wonder that corrpution runs riot i'll
these cities?
These census figures give the to-
tai number of immigrants that have
come into this country up to the
1st Of January in round numbers to
be 23 900 900. or one-half OF the pres
ent population CT the northern. east
ern and western states. In some OF
these the foreign born exceeds the
native born population By from 200
to 400 per cent,
This has become so great a menace
to the entire north, east and west
that in consequence q cry has arisen
from all portions Of these sections
that 'the south is not getting ner
share Of these valuable access ons TO
c,,r American population act some
of our southern friends FayA taken
+ha bait. hook and all. and nt'T the
south is confronted with menace
from which they have hitecfo oeea
freed, and that through the agency
,f the ma,igred negro Let US see
Row wa have fa-ed uo17r THIS ais
eliminating (71 pc cy that eas CIV
oo tha north all these irlc' grams