Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-05-26
ii a5hjn0ton StardarA
OINHP,A. WISH.
tEibN N0hNiNG. VA ii. 1906.
Ihe Open Door

Ihe Open Door.
IT, i'rc>: iFnt has come tu tie con.
,.u-un that the rapidly lncrea>in.
!u;iaN ii immigrants To this country
from European countries, many Ui
whom are .ll!terate. and many others
who d. Mt have even TIA" tiny dol
lar, winch has constituted tie & l.
IN lln" between capable and nIuprr
inlu'i4ralIan Daring th, fiscal year
ending tie .;Oth vi Icxt month, All
!nm ant record. viii have tcen
broken, and even though the last
thirty days may iali much below the
general average, it is safe Ia predict
that the aggregate will reach round
million. The increase has been quite
steady the past decade from 2JS, J3G in
1885,, 10 over 100000 in 1903, and in
the year closing in 1904
This matter OF an overwhelming in
ilux OF undesirable population and
expiration Of the Chinese exclusion
treaty. will, in the near future, consti.
tutc al ies.e wide enough for the
millions Of toile-s Of our country to
stand up"n. without wasting their
strength upon a contention for shorter
hours OF labor, or for the decorum and
Difference to be embodied in inilexible
rules regulating intercourse between
the class who pay for labor and the
wage-earner.
1t is thought the President will
present some plan OF action for the
consideration OF Congress. and that it
will be in the line OF a more rigid rule
regarding qualifications for citizen.
ship, and a more careful examination
will be made at the very entrance, on
passing the portals Of our government
While we have boosted of our wide
land and free form of government,
atlording apparently an unlimited asy.
lum for the oppressed Of other ma
tions, it was never anticipated%that the
foreign immigrant would come in pla.
toons and regiments, with scarcely
more qualification for acquiring the
sovereign rights of citizenship than
the brute creation, or that the OATH
bound anarchist would consider our
country fit place to pursue his
methods till it culmina ties in occa-
sional murder OF President, or that
even in 1905 the commercial spirit"
should have grown with such mighty
strides that it be advocated in some
trust trade circles that the exclusion
law be allowed to lapse with expiration
of the term of the treaty. China, with
the cunning Of the fox and the wisdom
OF the serpent, perceives the weight Of
this proposition for arraying capital on
her side, by threats of an exclusion OF
American products should the exclu-
sion OF cheap.john labor to this coun.
try be maintained.
The influx OF a million people each
year from totally dissimilar form of
government, would be a large proper
ton to assimilate with our S0,OOO,0OO
people. though they did not come dis.
qualified by race conditions and ervir.
onments, for assuming the duties of
free citizenship except by long tute.
lage and intelligent. well-directed ap-
plication. A million is one-eightieth
OF our whole population; it il equal
to, or greater than. the population OF
eighteen States Of the Union; it is
. fearful ratio added each year,
and it is more than the normal in.
crease OF native population; it means
that for each block of eighty men,
women and children, that one duly
equipped human machine, who may be
adapted after q short residence here
to take part in political and industrial
life in competition with the native
born citizen who has to wait 81 years
for his birthright, and begin the strug.
gle for existence, perhaps. at the first
round OF the ladder.
1t is matter OF some congratulation
that, mighty as the struggle may sp.
pear TO resist this great tide Of activ.
ity that has resolutely began an in
vasion in tie life struggle, we have an
assurance that Mr.. Roosevelt will not
be appalled, by the task. It is the
strenuous, and not the simple life, be
seeks, and it is more than probable
that he will be able to unite the dis.
cordant elements in Congress far
enough to raise the qualification for
admission into our national family.
In this endeavor he will have the
support OF all true Americans whose
nature has not been warped, by sordid
impulses, to sacrifice their birthright
on the altar OF Mammon.
<o
WHITELAw Reid, in . late banquet
speech, in New York, given in honor
of his departure to assume the duties
OF Ambassador at the Court OF st.
James, added another trumpet call
to the Monroe doctrine, by endorse.
ment of the Dix Injunction, eff any
man hauls down the American flag,