New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-20
BARS TO IMMIGRATION.
CORRESPONDENT Tells Why He Thinks They
Should Not Be Put Up.

To the Editor of The Tribune
c. IN +o-day's Tribune, the Rev. Madison Z.
1,a,ore the eminent Baptist clergyman is repor'eu
- Nv. said in regard to limited Immigration
+bo+ the governments of Europe are acuhe III mo
strongest seIf-interest, allowing crlnlllaiS 'ii
froado1, on condition Of their emigration u
United States. The logical inference 10 ~
80 Of our American citizenship should be put up
80 - cr,r,inal should be allowed foot on our
ored soil because the ground over mere IKE 'iia'
on which Moses stood when ne WIS Do]'i0 ~
burning bush, is holy ground . -,
rhIs country is well able TO take OF Itself ana al
~ the foreign element which may eleco 10 coiile
-, orc weIcome because this country mas al
o,ya been the asylum for the doWntroouen anu
onnressed of all nations, who nave given 10 " e
ouots of their criminals. 49,,
7-eo saws the Historians History OF the
Void" volume %. page $3.50, Dr. Samuel Jon JONI
~ &c the british men of letters, writing IN ie
Csan+,eran's Magazine" called the Americans d
race of convicts -, mot
In 1911 Thomas Dale, of Virginia, VINO
49,, Governor. begged the King Of England 70
INC, - y-iafria All offenders condemned TO die
o+ ~ the common gaols,' so that into the coo"S
~ VIRGINIA were sent thousands OF cohNlc's I'm
rrtish Scotch and Irish jais. VINO wien -
landed on our shores were sold as reoeiip'1O
servants to the Virginia planters lor " t -
i, from, seven to twenty-one years al'eI VIZ"
., 90 eer7.ice the convict became free ano' III
ra,,,, instances a reformed man or woman
ma ,e1o the TRANSFORMATION of felons and unre-
formed women became regular, anu oe ....,os
5 1--5 If has been estimated by some authorizes
ana 10 - ton thousand criminals were sent
80 ~, 7,orio,s American colonies For STUDY "a
.bo facts one need only read wv hlIe Scr
tD the Colony of Virginia, by }. u baiI,'9, -
Iisbad bv the Johns Hopkins Press. 0al1i -,
seiie9 -. l., the wear 171T the English Parliament
$50 statutes over the protests OF me W s NC
parchants in London, making me f9 Of England
dI,r,ning ground for the Ieons % tbaI,
mes q III If our American colonies; WEI ~
we're colonies: receiye9 and Indentured
arappts in the Colony and q jI shown that
PennsyIV 5inaIs we're sent from LONDON bliS'oi
and Edinburgh to America se,tIers Of Virginia
IN PParton in his life OF Thomas aTsteren
many settlers we're d men sent nj to Virginia to get rid
released IRON Snencer Bassetts White SerVitude
in North Carolina 2ta 1853 il is said the early
stIuuTS ana commonwealth of virginia ana .SUI ~
Carolina Wgt feons criminals and vagabonds, 90
Spirited persons ~ T y the verv roun9
sho"lts ,Ljs republc In a debate on the law or
FebTaTy 8 17So that he was
~ 4be oninion that rather than nave the common
class "a ooTne TO our shores had better trust 10
ibe natural increase Of our population la.
1 nd r,ention is made that Migrants. felons and
tie dregs the British poPplaGe were east by the
nroJ+ation OF convicts became common that. In
toS% the practice of introducing convcts and
feldns by ieyying duty of e. upon each one coming
in.o o,cbes convicted of the most fragrant crimes
Mere imported from al The jais Of Europe {See
Benton $ Debates in Congress- Vol L page -
IN Eernheim's History Of the Lutheran Church
l., North and South Carolina the author says
don kennels dissipated scions of respectable fami
lies were sent 10 the American colonies.
In Alfred NJ Heston's white Bondage in New
Jersey may found account of the vicious and
criminal element sent to that state when 1t was
colony of George "
II is therefore. nothing but nonsense to advocate
he
immigrant is of use in illustrating classical cases
for the clinical professors in the various medica
college Clinics thus the medical student is able &c
see cases which make him the more Thoroughly
equipped general practitioner. Then this hero OF
immigrants will give the Church a little 'SaiVation
Army work to do. This foreign element must %
caught and tanned by the GOSPEL of the son OF 6ou