Democratic messenger., 1906-01-13
SNOW HILL JR. ORDER
american MECHANICS.
Have Sent Protest To Maryland Repre-
sentatives In Congress Against Unde-
sirable immigration.


Snow Hill Council, Junior Order
United American Mechanics and all
others in Worcester Councils are making
a determined effort to prevent immigra-
tion to this country Of the rifraif of
Europe. and the MESSENGER has been
asked to print the following article
which will show the stand taken by
the Juniors:
In 1896, time when every vote was
needed, the Democratic party in its
national platform said: I'VE hold that
the most efficient way of protecting
American labor is To prevent the impor
tation of foreign pauper labor to com
pete with ii in the home market, and
the Republican party in its national
platform the same year said: For the
protection of the equality of American
citizens and the wages of our American
working men against the fatal compete
tion of low priced labor we demand that
the immigration laws be thoroughly en-
forced and so extended as to exclude
from entrance to the United States
those who can neither read nor write.
Samuel Gompers. President Of the
American Federation of Labor, says:
''The tariff keeps out cheap foreign
goods. II is the employers. not work
ing men, that have goods to sell. Work
ing men sell labor. and cheap labor is
not kept out by the tariff. The protection
that would directly help the workers
is protection against the cheap labor
itself. The strength of this country is
in the intelligence and prosperity of our
working people. but both the intelligence
and the prosperity of our working peo-
pie are endangered by the present i'm
migration. Cheap labor, takes our jobs
and cuts our wages.
President Roosevelt. in his annual
message to Congress on December 3rd.
1901. said: "The second great object
of proper immigration law ought To
be to secure by a careful and not mere
~ perfunctory educational test some
intelligent capacity to appreciate Ameri-
can institutions and act sanely as Amerl
can citizens.
The people. both native-born and ma
turallzed, demand the early restriction
Of immigration by law to be enacted
at the coming session of Congress. or
W III titdht ltliS llit bufiltiE isout III CttNh
Congressional district next year
We are well aware of the fact that
immigration is u menace to our country.
and its restriction matter more worthy
of consideration than any political issue
this country has ever had
While there are already laws govern
ing foreign immigration. they are not
enforced in the right measure. and to-
day our land of American Freedom is
overflowing with all classes of the low
est degraded limitations of humanity Of
foreign countries. and still coming at
the rate of million year. Note the
following statement:
New York. More than 900, 900 im-
migrants from all the nations of the
earth arrived in America and made this
their place of residence during the
fiscal year
All records have been broken. The
alien influx continues today in most as
founding numbers The forthcoming
year. from present indications, will
sweep ON Americas shores a tide of
humanity equivalent To the population
of all of the great cities of America
with the exception of Chicago and New
York
Ellis Island alone received S2l. 1863
men. women and children. Southern
Europe contributed nearly 75 per cent.
or what would equal the population of
the cities of Cleveland and Cincinnati
combined.
Agents of the ocean steamship lines,
despite the revelations following official
are still sowing the seeds
of deception throughout Europe and
luring the ignorant peasant to their
ticket offices with their glowing stories
of streets flowing with milk and honey.
The proportion of men to women was
two to one. The immigration officials
say the increases from all nations were
about in proportion to recent foregoing
years. Sixty per cent came from Italy
Austria. Hungary. Vast numbers were
destined to the big cities of the country,
and there seemed to be Il proportlonate
decrease to the northwest and the
south.
Ii has become a common occurrence
for 5000 immigrants to pass through
the rallied isles of the Ellis Island bureau
in single day. The Russian war has
contributed large number of refugees,
but not as large as might be expected
on account of the strict Russian border
surveillance.
"The indications are that the forth
coming year will break the remarkable
record just established. said Robert
Watchhorn, the new commissioner at
Ellis Island. "lf the increase is in
proportion, by June, 1906, we will have
added | $50, 600 to our population from
foreign countries.
Do we as American citizens desire 4
continuance of such measures? Will we
American citizens allow the DAGO the
other riff-ratf of Southern Europe and
"Coolie" laborers who will work for n
manner of nothing and live on the re-
fuse of the cess-pool and the garbage
dump to replace American labor, and
take our earnings back to foreign lands,
or assist more filth and vice 10 land on
our shores? A large per cent of immi-
grafton is made up of outcasts, criminals,
anarchists, thieves and otf-scourings of
the earth, who are forced 10 leave their
own land, and still are allowed to land
upon American soil. Isn't it time that
we begin to take measures to STOP
this inflow of foreign scum? Every true
American, naturalized or native born,
REGARDLESS OF NATIONALITY,
PARTISAN OR SECTARIAN AFFlL-