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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13
Bv Emerson Mcmillan,
Chairman Conciliatory Committee of the
Civic Federation.

Chairman Conciliatory Committee of the
Civic Federation.
Decidedly I favor an intelligent re-
striction of immigration on both our
eastern and western seaboards. With
out being an alarmist, venture to say
that the problem grows more difficult
each year and must ultimately de-
mand a solution. America has accom-
plished wonders in assimilating great
hordes of immigrants from many diff
ferent countries, but 1t is a very seri-
GUS question how long at the present
rate of increase she can continue to
do so. Now it seems to me that when
foreigners come to us in such num-
bers that they form separate and dis
tinct communities, preserving their
language and traditions intact, they
constitute a menace. When such a
colony is formed it is difficult to break
up Assimilation goes on very slowly.
AS a rule, the immigrant of recent
years differs from us widely in his
ideas of morality, his attitude toward
the law and in his general point OF
view. When we read of the violent
crimes committed, the names are usu-
ally foreign. The Black Hand out
RACES, for instance, have doubtless
been greatly exaggerated, but such as
they are they are a foreign importa-
ton, and of very recent years.
1t is undeniable, of course, that the
coming of these millions of laborers
has contributed much to the wealth
and prosperity of the country But
should this army of workers be in
creased indefinitely? We have a pop
ulation to-day in excess of S0,00O,OOO
very active and alert people. 1t would
seem that the natural resources OF
the country could be developed and
the great business of the land carried
forward very we'll with our present
population and its natural increase.
And am not among those who have
any fear of race suicide. The in
crease in the number of immigrants
from year to. year is astonishing. Can
we continue to receive this army IN
definitely without some day reducing
our scale of income to that of Europe?
Does it seem probable that the Slavs,
the Russian Hebrews, the Sicilians
and others who are coming to us in
such numbers to-day Will in few
years have risen as have the Irish,
and have become as good Americans
And If these foreigners with traditions
and manners very different from our
own are not assimilated, the problem
becomes a very serious one.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13
JUST A GENTLE HINT.
One Remedy Appearances indicated
Nobleman Had Never Tried.

The earl of Surrey, afterward elev.
enth duke of Norfolk, who was a no.
torious gourmand and hard drinker
and a leading member of the Beef
steak club, was so far from cleanly in
his person that his servants used to
avail themselves of his fits Of drunken
ness-which were pretty frequent, by
the way-for the purpose of wash
ing him. On these occasions they
stripped him as they would corpse
and performed the needful ablutions.
He was equally notorious for his
horror of clean linen. One day, on
his complaining to Dudley North at
his club that he had become per-
feet martyr to rheumatism and tried
every possible remedy without sue
cess the latter wittily replied:
Pray, my lord, did you ever try
a clean shirt?"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13

Pattern No. 5STS.-T'he simple.
graceful lines of the pretty negligee
here pictured at once commends 1t
for practical use. The neck Is col
larless finished by ribbon-run beading.
which also decorates the short
sleeves. If preferred, full length
sleeves. terminating in narrow cuffs
may be used, as the pattern provides
for both. The thin washable mate
rials as we'll as French flannel, challis
and albatross are all suitable for de-
velopment. For 36 inches bust meas
ure three and fve-eighths yards of So
inch maternal will be required. No.
5s7S cut to sizes of 80, S4, SO, 80, 40
and AZ inches bust measure.
This pattern will be sent to you on
receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders
to the Pattern Department of this paper.
Be sure to give size and number of pat
tern wanted. For convenience, write
your order on the following coupon:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13
BY Robert Watchorn.
Commissioner of immigration.

Commissioner or Immigration.
Public opinion is all wrong, or near
ly SO, upon many phases of the immi-
grafton question. With more than a
million immigrants a year we cannot
supply the urgent demands for labor.
The army of workers adds enormously
to the wealth and prosperity of the
country.
1t is not the scum of Europe we are
getting, but the pick of the most ear
nest and Woodworking of it's popula-
ton. AS to the morality of the immi-
grants of to-day, 1t seems to me that
it compares favorably with that of
our native born population,
All this is not matter of mere
opinion or sentiment. 1t is borne out
by the actual statistics. Mr. Reeves
figures, it seems to me, in some re-
spects, understate the facts. He men
tions $500 year as the earning power
of these immigrants. AS matter of
fact, these men will earn more, on
the average, than dollar a day. l
think the figure may safely be in
creased by at least so per cent. With
in few days Mr. Charles Lorhn, the
New York state commissioner of la
Dor, came to me in search of men /
could not supply. He estimated that
New York state alone needed 100000
men, to whom he would. pay $25 a
month and board on the farms alone.
Now, that does not look much like
overcrowding or the impossibility OF
assimilating we hear so much about.
OF the million, or, to be exact, the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13

Pattern No. 5SS3.-The attractive
dressing sacque here pictured in a
development of soft white dotted
challis, shows grace in every detail.
Bands of the material hold the full
ness in place under the arms In EN-
pire effect, but the use of the bands
Is a matter of taste, the garment be-
lag equally pretty without. Wide
pleats extend over the shoulders, CIV
ing extra fullness over the bust, while
the back is semi-fittted, the pleats be-
ing stitched to the waistline. Salts
factory developments may be had in
cashmere, challis, albatross, pongee,
French flannel, dimity, lawn and the
figured crepes. For SO inches bust
measure three and one-quarter yards
of 36-inch material will be required.
Sizes for 80, "a, 36, 38, 40 and AZ
inches bust measure.
This pattern will be sent to you on
receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders
to the Pattern Department of this paper.
Be sure to give size and number Of pat
tern wanted. For convenience, write
your order on the following coupon:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13
Side Lights on Mythology.

Briareus was bewailing his humid
red hands.
Il don't mind the trouble of wash
ing them once in WHILE" he said
II can easily make one so wash the
other so. But l don't know what to
do with them in company"
Thereupon, with wry face, he used
one of his hands in making out a
check for 5000 for the gloves he ex-
pected to wear at swell reception
that evening.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13

This is true philanthropy that buries
not it's gold in ostentatious charity,
but builds it's human hospital in the
human hear Thorold.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13
In RenuIar order.

Two men met at the gate of the
cemetery and each with excessive po-
liteness bowed to the other to pass
IN before him After a few minutes
of this, when neither would give way.
the younger of the two smiled and
said: "You are the elder of the two.
20 naturally you ought to go in first"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13

ences by stiletto. We even identify
the Italians roughly with the Black
Hand system of blackmail. The south
Italians are but small fraction of all
immigration; the class of crimes to
which they are prone is minor one
in our criminal records; the black
mail eXtorted by the Black Hand Is
but drop in the bucket compared
with the volume of extortion currently
practiced by American business men,
within and without the law, against
American-born victims.
Viewing the situation broadly, there
is no decisive evidence pointing to
the criminality of the average immi-
grant. There is much pointing to his
American to industry, sobriety and the
patient liberation of adverse condi-
tions without outbreak. Indeed, the
most decided evidence on this point
comes from Great Britain, which coun-
try complains that of all her immi-
grants the Americans are the most
criminal, being three or four times as
bad as the average of The rest and
ten times as bad as the Poles and
Hungarians.
We do not conclude from this too
hastily that America is ultra GRIM
inal. But we quote it to signify that
he who seeks statistical support for
anti-immigration views, doing 1t in
sincerity and breadth, is apt to meet
with sour comfort.
| Standard of immigrants.
Our own conclusions are that the
vast majority of immigrants are slight
ly above our American standards in
industry, sobriety and patient self-re-
straint, though they are undoubtedly
below us in initiative. They come
from countries where unceasing toll
is the price of life, and where the get
rich-quick microbe is virtually un-
known. In their fatherlands drunken
ness is minor crime, whereas in
Great Britain and America 1t is ma
jor one And as to patience under
conditions inviting to revolt, America
is proud of standing first among all
the non-Latin peoples of the temperate
zones in her promptness to resent pub
licly, by the passive rebellion of the
strike, if not by actual violence, the
presence of conditions unnecessarily
hard. Our complaint against the i'm
migrants must be that they are too
patient and submissive for American
standards, rather than that they are
too violent and resentful.
AS to illiteracy, it Is true that the
immigrants are below our standard
What of 1t? Education is thing OF
itself, neither conducive to nor antag
onistic to morality and happiness. II
may be a powerful tool to both. But
it is often used as an equally power
full tool against both. Our educated
classes are not always the happiesi
ones. Our worst and biggest crooks
are the educated ones.
In short, man is of value to 6
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13

The record power transmission Ia
that of the Kern river plant in south
ern California, where $4,000 horse
power is sent III miles at pressure
Of $4,000 volts
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13
AS to Pauper Labor.

A great deal of the misunderstand-
ing is due to the use of that term pau
per labor. l have estimated tnat
every immigrant in coming to Amer
lea spends on an average from $50 to
500 for transportation. This includes
his fare from his home to the point of
departure, the crossing of the Atlantic
and the railroad fare to his destina-
ton. In other words, they spend up
ward of $1O0,O00,O00 year in search
of work. Let us suppose, for sake of
argument, that Russia suddenly held
out great opportunities for money
making so that Americans by the mil
lion were attracted there. 1t seems to
me that 100000 native born citizens
might have some difficulty in raising
S100, 100000 for transportation. And
in addition this army of incomers car
ried with them more than $20,000,O00
in cash.
There is, of course, urgent need of
the restriction of immigration, but
such restriction is already in force.
The laws governing the situation are
very rigid; they have been devised by
intelligent men, familiar with the sit
uation, working in sympathy with
these people as we'll as in the best in
terests of the country And the laws
are being enforced. AS the need for
further restriction occurs it will re-
ceive due attention. Meanwhile the
demand for laborers throughout the
country is very urgent. The immi-
grants are adding hundreds of mil
lions of dollars to the wealth of
America, while they help themselves
to a broader and more prosperous life.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13
$4,000, 600, GOO Per Annum.

During the last 20 years some 49,
100000 or 100000 immigrants have
arrived. The exact figure does not
matter, for all we wish is an estimate
of the number now alive and working,
and many who came before 1887 are
that. If these people are producing
an average of $500 worth of goods
and children apiece their current pro-
ductivity is now $4,000, 100000 per an
mum.
This is 200 times as much as our
new automobiles cost us last year.
This enormous fund of current income
we should have lost had we rigidly
excluded immigration in 1887.
How much capital do these immi-
| grants embody, not in their pockets
or bank accounts, but in their strength
of body and character?
| Assume that out of the 1900, 900
aliens arrived since 1887 100000
these that you kill his family can col
lect from you, by law, $4,000. He
must be worth at least half that That
is to say, we have got from Europe
during the last two decades, for moth
ing, working machine which capital
ICES at from 25,OOO,0OO, 900 to 5O,OOO,.
| 100000.
This figure agrees fairly well with
our estimate of the animal productiv.
ity of this great human machine But
the exactness of the figures does not
matter. 1t is plain that, however they
may be modified in detail, they will
still remain enormous. Our crops
have certainly been enormous of re
cent years, but it has already become
plain that they cannot stand alone as
an explanation of our remarkable
prosperity. We not only grow hun
dreds of millions of dollars worth oi
corn, wheat, and cotton at the cost oi
much labor each year, but we also i'm
bibe from another continent, without
cent of cost to ourselves, upward Of
billion dollars worth of human live
stock per annum.
We do not hesitate to assign a solid
value to every other form of live stock
which the land needs for its working
Why should not our immigrants bt
figured as a similar asset?
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13

1901, ,756, immigrants last year more
than ten per cent. were over the age
limit and great proportion brought
their wives. About so per cent. may
be classed as workers. But in another
sense they were all workers. There
were no idlers, scarcely one who
would shirk his duty. And as to their
morality, the average is certainly
good. These immigrants are placed
upon 6 probation for three years.
Should they get into trouble in this
time they are liable to be deported.
Last year there were for all causes
less than 1900 deported. L question
IL our native born population can show
better record.
The modern immigrant of to-day, 1t
seems to me, is greatly misunderstood
We have a great deal of talk about
the menace of the immigrant from the
south of Europe. A few decades ago
most of the immigrants came from
Ireland, while Germany ranked second
and Great Britain third. Italy and
Russia sent comparatively few To-
day the situation Is practically re-
versed. Last year we received $4,000
from Italy, $4,000 from Russia and
but $4,000 from Ireland and 10000
from Germany. From Austria and
Hungary some $4,000 reached our
shores. 1t is unfair to say that the
north of Europe is no longer repre-
sented. But are the immigrants from
the southern countries dangerous or
undesirable? The statistics of crime
60 not prove it. The Italian is hard
worker We should remember that
the Latin people were highly civilized
when the north of Europe was peo-
pied with savages. The southern
countries may not have progressed of
late, but the impulse is still there, and
with unlimited opportunities of Amer
lea before them who can tell what
they may not accomplish in the fu-
ture?
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13

In many circles throughout the coun-
vtry there is in progress serious dis
scusson as to the advisability of curb
ling the immigration flood. This nat
turaIly has led up to the question of the
Immigrant, his value or his menace,
and his position in the social machine.
The New York Herald has invited
opinions on the subject. and presents
the views of three men who may reason
ably be said to have studied the
situation. We reproduce them below:
BY Sidney A. Reeve.
Former Professor of Steam and Hydrau-
lie Engineering at Worcester Polytech-
mic Institute and Lecturer at Harvard.
Current conversation and the peri
~odical press are full of condemnation
4of our lax restriction of immigration.
All the evils to which our country is
heir are explained by the undesirable
horde" of aliens which is pressing into
the land with ever increasing volume.
The steady increase in criminality
which has now become unquestioned
is attributed to this overflow" of the
-undesirables from the older countries,
land these countries are accused of COL
fusion with the steamship companies
toward promotion of the volume of
migration. That portion of our citi-
:zens which Is interested in the labor
market is in chronic rebellion against
this influx of cheap labor. destined to
compete upon an un-American basis
with American labor. Those of us
who are interested in purity of poll
tics see in the inflowing torrent cur
rent supply of corruptibles upon
whose votes political machines may
be reared and supported.
Upon every side arises this denun-
citation of immigration. Nor is 1t re-
cent phenomenon. Look up the litera-
;ture of immigration, and you will find
the decade of 1S40-1S50 supplying its
fair quota of "kicks," in goodly proper
ton to what our increased population
puts forth to-day. For go years we,
las nation, regardless of whether our
continent yet contained undeveloped
territory, as in 1S47, or undeveloped
possibilities, as in 1907, have been OBJ
.jecting strenuously to immigration.
Meanwhile the immigration has
been steadily increasing, except dur
ing the period of the civil war, and at
the end of the 60 years we enjoy phe-
nomenal prosperity.
There is an inconsistency here
somewhere between the theories OF
the pessimists and the facts, and a big
one, too.
What are the facts?
Question of crlminality.
AS to criminality, we can find none
supporting the theory that in general
immigration is of criminal sort
Here and there may be found minor
facts and figures on that side, 1t Is
true. The southern Italians, without
question, are unusually illiterate and
addicted to the settlement Of differ
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-13

country solely according to whether
he produces more, of material or of
morality, than he consumes. He may
produce very little, yet IL his wants
are less than that little he is still q
profitable investment for the nation.
He may, on the other hand, apparently
produce millions; yet If he consumes
more than that or If he undermines
our standards of morality, or If he
is found TO produce actually much
less than he apparently produces, he
may be great source of loss, in spite
of his prominence and power.
The people understand this we'll.
1t is their habitual application of this
new economic trysquare to men in the
public eye which is now making mil
lionairism so uncomfortable.
What Is immigration Worth?
To which class, then, belongs the
average immigrant? Is he producer
or dissipator of net wealth and NOR
ality? If the former, what Is our i'm
migrant worth, net, to the nation?
The law says that dead male adult
coEstitutes loss of $4,000 to his fam
lily. In this it strikes rough average
and draws no distinction of any sort
between individuals. So 1t is hard to
get at it in that way.
The average adult male immigrant
| (and half of our immigrants are OF
! this sorD earns at least 5000 per an
mum soon after his arrival. Rather
that is what he is paid. My estimates
have led me to state, elsewhere, that
his actual productivity is from three
to four times that amount, the balance
going to pay the cost of doing "busi
ness" with what he produces and con
sumes. But the benefit of this doubt
will be left, for the present, to the op
| position.
The right will be reserved, however
to class all immigrants under this fig
ure, for the majority of them have
been here long enough to expand their
income beyond $500. That is to say
most of those who were classed as
children at the time of entry are now
adults. OF the women some are off
set in their unproductivity by he mer
who earn more than $500; the rest
are producing more than that value in
the form of children.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-01-18
MIDNIGHT OHIO SPECIALS

Marion-While climbing fence with
shotgun, Clay Rhoades was accidental
ly killed yesterday afternoon. Trigger
caught in his watch chain.
Coshocton-Company has been form.
ed here for the manufacture of leather
novelties and will incorporate this
week for $4,000. This makes the
seventh plant in this city making ad.
vertising novelties.
Niles-Niles Boiler Makers union
voted a strike against the Niles Boiler
company this morning when 80
day notice of demand for increase over
wage scale of 1906 expires.
Akron-George w. Grouse, president
of the Aultman Miller company at the
time Of their assignment, objected in
common pleas court to suit by p. ].
Little to force stockholders payment
from wife's estate. Claims notice was
served on Little when transfer was
made.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-01-18
IN THE SENATE.

Washington, Jan. 14.-Consideration
of the now noted Brownsville case oc.
cupitd almost the entire time of the
senate today. Opening with the read
Ing of the presidents message trans.
mitting additional evidence secured in
Texas by Assistant Attorney General
Purdy, three speeches were made in
defense of the administration action
In dismissing negro troops from the
army. Two Of them were delivered by
Democrats-Mr. Mallory, Fla, and Mr..
Clay, Ga. Mr.. Spooner, Wis, took the
floor shortly before adjournment, and
will resume his treatment of the sub
ject shortly after the opening tomor-
row. The presidents announcement
that he considered the additional testi-
mony as conclusive, and his withdraw
al OF that part of his former order de-
nying to the discharged men the right
OF ever again holding office under the
government, was met by the declara-
ton from Mr.. Foraker that his oppo-
sition to the administrations meth
ods was not removed and that he
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-01-18
ACCOMPL|CE
In Assault Upon Hand
some Southern Girl is
Probably Caught.
sTEpToE IN THE TOLLS

Lynchburg, Va, Jan. 14.-Herbert
Steptoe, a negro, has been arrested at
Elon, Amherst county, on the charge
of being an accomplice of Peter Hud-
son, the alleged assailant of Miss Bes-
sic Shelton, the pretty 19-year-oid
girl living near Monroe, one day last
week. Steptoe resisted arrest, but was
subdued. He was taken to the Am
herst county Jail and later brought to
this city. He was taken to Roanoke
tonight, where Hudson was incarcerat-
ed. 1t is thought that Steptoe is the
negro who remained hidden in the
woods while the other negro went to
the house and committed the crime.
says that he will easily prove an alibi,
but he has made conflicting state
ments regarding his whereabouts at
the time the crime was committed.
Miss Shelton has identified the man
Hudson as the man who assaulted her.
Relatives of the girl have guarded
the home continually since Saturday
night. A rumor has been current for
several days that the negroes of the
community are looking for an oppor
tunity to burn the house and thereby
destroy traces of the crime. The
girl has been taken to the home OF
other relatives for safe keeping. Ex-
citement continues to run high.