The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-08-09

DESIRES TO sUPPLANT THE
NEGRO WITH THESE ANAR-
CHISTIc FOREIGNERS.
For years foreign immigrants have
poured in one continuous stream to
the shores of America, until to-day
millions Of people not native to the
soil form a startling per cent of its
population. These immigrants have
come from every country of the Old
World. They have brought with them
their customs, their crude mode of
thinking, their deferred or shattered
hopes, their animosities and their an
archistic tendencies; they have come
to better their conditions in this boast
ed land of freedom and of plenty, or
wreck organized society and pour the
milk of sweet concord into hell"
they have come to realize their hopes
or blot out the hopes of others. The
bulk of this immigration is made up
of the riffraff of the countries from
which it came. The majority Of these
people when they landed could not
speak the language of the country in
which they came to dwell; they had no
well-defned conception of the govern
ment Of the people, nor of their modes
nor customs; they had heard Utopian
stories of the grandeur and freedom of
the so-called "land of the free and
home of the brave" and they came
with the most extravagant dreams and
hopes which were destined never to be
realized or fulfilled When these for
eign hordes become disillusioned and
their dreams fail of realization and
their hopes shattered, reaction sets in
and they look upon all forms of organ
lied government as inimical to their
best interest Their anarchistic pro
pensity is famed afame and all kinds
of crimes and atrocities follow in its
wake. These immigrants have as 6
whole gravitated toward the great cen
ters of industry-the large cities-un
til they have congested the labor
market. This has necessitated the
idleness of thousands upon thousands
of these foreign people, and idleness
without any means Of support, is {
breeder Of some form of crime. These
people sought the shores of Americ;
to better their conditions and flndini
the status of things of such a natur,
as to frustrate the realization of thei
hopes, they become the victims o
their environments and straightenet
circumstances and easily merge int
the commission of crime. They mus
have sustenance by fair or foul means
New York and Chicago are reekin
in atrocities; they are staggering. lik
a drunken man who cannot find hi
way, under the most Overwhelmin
wave of crime ever known in thei
history. The authorities cannot onl
not cope with it, but they seem pow
erless to even check it, Nearly ever
portion of these great metropolise
furnish daily its quota of victims
Women and children, and even mel
stand horror-stricken in the face {
these continued crimes and the pov
erlessness of the authorities to STAN
. out their further commission.
The government has for years to
Grated an almost uninterrupted il
lux of foreign immigration, and no
the reaction of this folly has set il
and heaven only knows when, whel
and how it will end When theS
crime-inoculated foreign hordes sha
by force of necessity be compelled
take up their abode in other section
of this country and in the rural di
tricts, they will carry with them the
envenomed hatred for this governmel
and its institutions as we'll as the '
rus of anarchy and crime. These il
migrants are not divorced from the
ideas of government as instilled
them in their native lands and Il
principle of self-government, as d
fined in this country is, with them,
baseless fabric and a dream-an il
possible theory.
The South, with her antagonism
the Negro, her most loyal friend al
productive factor, has been clamoril
for these foreigners, begging them
come and take his place in her cor