The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1905-01-19
IMMIGRATION

coin, evidence of good character and
can pass Civil Service examination
and why should there be? But if he be
poorly clad, has very limited amount
of money and face and features that
indicate years of hardship and suffer
ing for the sake of an existence, he is
Suspected; enough money is spent to
ascertain his business and mission to
this country to have put him in good
circumstances, and althO it is good
idea to know what kind of people come
to this country, it would also be a
good Idea for us not to make such
demonstration of our selfshness by
demanding nothing but the cream of
Europe.
This country has thousands of acres
of undeveloped land All it wants is
irrigation, for which the government
is making large appropriations every
year, and a few million more ''unde-
sired" Europeans to make it yield up
its wealth and not lot of spectators
to gobble it up and hold beyond the
reach of those who deserve 1t at gov
ernment prices and are willing to earn
the title to it by hard licks. The people
who have a fair education and little
money, and are competent to earn live
lihood by brain work, are not the ones
to callous their hands unless they have
to; but the ones who know how to do
things by physical force only, are the
ones TO look to for the further develop
-ment of this country and a. few more
inducements on the part of the govern
ment in that direction would have
good results.
A few years ago a great cry arose
because of the great influx of Irish and
Germans-that it would jeopardize the
high standard of civilization of this
country; but it soon wore off and at
present some of our most prominent
men are of these same nationalities
Today we have a repetition of the
} same fear, althO from another source
J it's nature is identical, and after gen.
!; Grafton or two, and intermarriage
which is bound to take place, national.
ity and it's chief characteristics are
lost, and all becomes American. This
, talk of unrestricted Italian or Hun
: garian immigration eventually making
) this country an Italy or Hungary, il
mere cbild's prattle. If such was to bt
the ultimate result of foreign coloniz
t alton, why hasn't it come to this lonl
D ago? People have been coming from
f every quarter of the globe for fou
Q hundred years and still the Englisl
4 language is the predominating one
8 and everything in America is Ameri
d can and becoming more so every day
}. By restricting immigration we d.
o the countries affected, a great injus
t tice. This country owes its presen
g condition, not to any one or tw'
II countries, but to them all; perhaps
a more to some than to others, but tha
matters not. To illustrate my las
. argument, suppose that some fore
/ father of yours had been instrumenta
. in founding a college OF other grea
u institution and that you should wis
y to study its teachings or visit it, n
l. matter what, and that through som
70 purely selfish motive on the part Q
u the management you were refused
= how would you feel; as tho you wer
. denied privilege that was yours G
10 as tho they had ght to exclude 20
y from what your forefather had estal
10 lished for the benefit of all who cam
~ after him?
T. By keeping this last idea in min
"a and putting yourself in the foreigner
81 position, you will soon come to tt
conclusion that the people of EuroI
- :: have right to come here and th'
:. Uncle Sam owes debt of gratitu(
- that ought to be paid even at the ris
- of having European criminal" mo
y or less. E. B. d.
~ Character is the only cash that
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