The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-27
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IMMIGRATION FROM EUROPE

thing That Should Give Us Pause the
Monroe Star directs attention to the i'm
migration from Europe to the Unite j
State, especially the class designated or
classified as the scum which has been
and is being encouraged by corporations
seeking cheap labor, as we'll as those in
terested in plantations in the States OF
the South.
It is true there are thousands of acres
OF land, alluvial and hill, which should
be in cultivation, but while encouraging
the poor and the oppressed from the
countries of Europe to come and dwell
in the United States. THE Home of the
Free and the Brave" reasonable re-
striction should be exercised in exclud-
ing what may be termed the cheap la
boring Glass;" which are desired to ope-
rate In factories, sawmills and planta-
tons.
AT the rate of the coming of this class
this country in few years will be over
run with the kind of labor which will
lead to pauperisrn, as in Europe, where
the distinction between the autocratie
aud moneyed class and the poor is well
defined. Z
What is called cheap labor is a curse
to any State or country, as it is detri-
mental to substantial progress and de-
veiopment, and by encouraging this
class to compete with the negro, must
in time aggravate and complicate the
labor question. The self-interest of to-
day should not jeopardize the future
with the complications which would be
entailed by the swarming into the United
States Of the pauper class of Europe.
On this question the Star says:
I'VE do things too suddenly here in
the South. We have fair heritage, an
immense domain that will furnish a vine
or fig tree for millions OF people, indus
trious, frugal white people who would
be home-builders, people who would as
simulate and make the country rich and
prosperous, and in our impulsive desire
to see this come about we unhesitatingly
endorse scheme of immigration that
means our own and our coantry's Undo
ing. The big saw mills have got what
they want, the timber Of the country, and
have grown rich on it; now they want
to grow richer by the sale Of the denud-
ed timber lands and their settlement by
the all but pauper labor from the Adri-
attic. And they have the steamship COM
panies, the railroads and their agents in
cahoots with them It is money to them,
and they cant so much be blamed, but
there IS something more and better in
this world than money, and that is home
and country, a God-fearing, law-abiding,
patriotic citizenship, the bulwark Of any
country, and that is the kind Of immi-
grants the South needs, or none at all.
The Star, like many others, endorsed
the cry for immigration, but, like many
others, il did not at that time fathom
the scheme. Il lis plain now. Let the
big land owners who bought the lands
for the timber keep the lands unless they
can bring the right kind of immigrants
70 settle them Let the proposed Castle
Garden at New Orleans 60 out of bust
ness before il begins, il we can not get
the right kind Of immigrants