The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-06-04
OBSERVANCE OF LAW.

There are a certain class of foreign
ers who are allowed to land in tn
United States who do not appreciat
our form of government nor the prin
ciples of liberty.
In minor New York city this week
band of striking foreigners raised |
red flag and paraded the streets forcin.
all in a similar trade to quit work
These men were not unionized. They
had no organization with which an EN-
ployer might treat or which a govern
ment might punish. Few of them spok,
the language of the country. 1t is safe
to say that none of them understands
its laws. With no conception of Amer
lean conditions, they seek to transplant
to the free soil of the United States the
anarchy of the nations they left and un-
der the red flag of terror they Aaunted
in the eyes of law and order threats of
the unspeakable atrocities of the bloody
streets and unruly cities of their native
lands.
1t is estimated that the population of
the United States will be 100000 in
1910 and that much OF this increase
will have come through immigration.
Southern Europe is pouring its millions
through American ports of entry. The
ship loads of seekers after chance to
make living come from over-crowded
Europe, where majority Of the ills are
due to natural conditions consequent up
on over.population, ills which would fol.
low over-population in America, as in
evitably as they are in Europe. These
people, in most instances, have had poor
lives. The deepest poverty has been
theirs. From childhood they have known
little but want, abuse, neglect and strife.
Their envoirment from infancy has been
such as to imbitter the soul and degrade
the body.
The boundltr resources of this eoun-
try viii support these people. They can
can get bread here, build homes, acquire
completeness. They may send their
children to school. Their wives will not
be obliged to toll in field or factory.
They have the protection of the law for
mind and body and, so long as they de-
serve, the cordial right hand of fellow.
ship from the native American. But the
immigrant who deludes himself with |
belief that he can transplant to this |
nation the crime and misery he left at |
home needs discipline as well as educa-
ton, and the native American who suf-
fers the ignorant immigrant to poison
the institutions, laws and customs of
this republic with the taint Of the COM
munities that immigrant abandoned in
despair, lacks patriotism.
The American people constitute today
the happiest, the best-fed, the best.
clothed, the most independent and the
most formidable nation of which his
tory has made record. They have at.
tanned a height nineteenth century op-
timists scarcely dreamed Of, through a
of circumstances particu.
larly fortuitous. But this prosperity
is false unless builded upon foundations
Of respected law, upon sturdy character,
not vagaries. There are no native Amer.
cans except the blanketed red paupers
that dig in the ash barrel in the streets
of cities; we are all sprung of seeds
from foreign shores. The
.erm foreigner" has not become thus {
ar Opprobrious; but the red flag, be it
waved by Saxon, Teuton, Hun, Celt
iaul or Slav, will soon cause the doors
If the republic to be shut in the faces
# people from over the sea.